Fernando González is an independent arts writer, music critic, and editor. A musician by training, he has been twice nominated to a GRAMMY for his liner notes writing and is an EMMY winner for his work as Senior Editor and Writer in the documentary Notes from The Mambo Inn: The Story of Mario Bauzá (WGBH, Boston). His work currently appears regularly in the digital arts magazine Artburst Miami and the music blog Jazz With an Accent®. From June 2024 to February 2025, he produced and hosted the 20-part weekly radio series Jazz With an Accent®, focusing on global jazz, on WDNA 88.9 FM, Miami. The series was a follow-up to his ten-one-hour program Jazz With an Accent ® he hosted and produced for WDNA 88.9 FM, in 2010.

He has been part of the editorial team of the Miami Book Fair as an Associate Editor since 2019 and was a copywriter and translator for Miami Dade College’s Koubek Center (2019-2024) and the Museum of Art and Design. Previously, he was the Associate Editor for Print and Special Projects for The Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (Latin GRAMMY, 2011-2019).

His past professional affiliations include staff music critic and arts writer for The Miami Herald (1993-1999) and The Boston Globe (1988-1993) and cultural correspondent for The Washington Post (2000-2005). He was the Managing Editor for JAZZIZ magazine (2003-2008) and the pioneering bilingual web portal El Sitio (1999-2000).

Other professional highlights include writing about arts, culture, and technology for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s website, contributing commentary for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, and writing features and columns for the music magazines Downbeat and JazzTimes. He has written program notes for  Carnegie Hall, Jazz @ Lincoln Center, The Town Hall, New York City Center, and the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center (Miami), and events such as the Edinburgh International Festival, Scotland and the Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata, Valledupar, Colombia.

In addition to his journalism, González has conducted workshops on writing and music criticism at Berklee College of Music, Valencia Campus, Spain (2017-2019).

González was the Curator of Jazz Programs for the Arsht Center, then Carnival Center, Miami (2005-2007). He also translated and annotated Astor Piazzolla, A Memoir (Amadeus Press, 2001) and curated, annotated, and produced the CD Universe of Rhythms: The GRAMMY Guide to Latin Music for the inaugural Latin GRAMMY Awards in 2000.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, González majored in math at the Universidad de Buenos Aires before pursuing music full-time. He moved to the United States to attend Berklee College of Music, majoring in Composition/Film Scoring. He later studied with composer and theoretician George Russell at the New England Conservatory and independently with guitarist and composer Ralph Towner. In 1987, he won a commission to write a new musical composition by the New Works program of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts.

For nearly 20 years, he was a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (GRAMMY®). He was also a charter member of the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Latin GRAMMY®).