Juan Pablo Carreño
Trained in Colombia, the United States, and France, Juan Pablo Carreño studied composition at the Javeriana University in Bogotá with Guillermo Gaviria and Harold Vásquez, graduating in 2003. That same year, he received a scholarship to Florida International University in the United States, where he pursued a Master's degree with Orlando Jacinto García and worked as a professor of theory and composition. Upon arriving in Paris, he joined Jean-Luc Hervé's composition class at the Nanterre Conservatory. Graduating from the Paris Conservatory in 2010, he continued his composition studies there in the class of Gérard Pesson.
A resident at the Académie de France in Rome (Villa Medici) from 2011 to 2013, he was also selected to work in New York in 2012 as composer-in-residence for the International Contemporary Ensemble in the ICELab program.
In 2006, he won the Colombian Ministry of Culture's Artist Residency Program and the Fonca of Mexico. In 2008, he participated in Salvatore Sciarrino's composition course at the Acanthes Center. In 2010, he was invited as composer-in-residence at the Musique sur Ciel Festival in the Tarn region of France, a festival that commissioned his work Golpe en el diafragma. In 2011, he was invited as artist-in-residence at the Centre Intermondes in La Rochelle.
His music has been performed in several countries in the Americas and Europe by ensembles such as the Ensemble Intercontemporain (EIC), the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), the Tana Quartet, and Le Balcon. He regularly collaborates with director Nieto and the Nova et Vetera Artistic Agency.
His first opera, La digitale, commissioned by the Marseille Opera and the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, premiered in December 2015 at the Théâtre de la Criée in Marseille.
His works are published by Éditions Musicales Artchipel.
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