Rubens Salles is a Brazilian-born composer, pianist, improviser, and educator based in New York. His work brings together contemporary classical music, improvisation, jazz, electronic music, and Brazilian musical traditions, exploring the relationships between structure and spontaneity, acoustic and electronic sound, and composition and improvisation.

His compositions draw on Brazilian traditions including choro, baião, and bumba-meu-boi, alongside contemporary approaches to spectralism, microtonality, experimental notation, and electronics. His recent work includes Echoes of Enchantment for orchestra, choir, percussion, and electronics, which explores spontaneity, ritual, cultural memory, and compositional structure.

Salles has released numerous recordings and performed internationally, collaborating with musicians across contemporary, jazz, and experimental music. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Miami and has also studied at the New England Conservatory, Brooklyn College, Berklee College of Music, and New York University. He is active as a composer, performer, and educator in New York.