Marco Suárez-Cifuentes
Marco Suárez-Cifuentes is a Colombian composer and researcher, a professor at the Romainville Conservatory. He develops interdisciplinary projects integrating music, science, and technology. Trained at the Javeriana University of Bogotá, the CNSMDP, IRCAM, and the Royaumont Foundation, he specializes in the interactions between acoustic, instrumental, and electroacoustic spaces. A PhD in Arts and Creation (SACRe-PSL), he continued his research at IRCAM (ISMM - EAC), ZKM - Hertz-Labor, and, since 2020, at LadHyX at the École Polytechnique, in collaboration with Jean-Marc Chomaz, where he held a postdoctoral fellowship supported by the Arts and Sciences Chair (2021-2022).
Active since 1996, he has collaborated with ensembles such as the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Le Balcon, L’Itinéraire, and VorteX. Supported by institutions such as the Ministry of Culture and Communication, SACEM, the Singer-Polignac Foundation, IRCAM, Radio France, and IDARTES, he has produced works in Colombia with the Nova et Vetera agency, including Monologue for a Mechanical Spider (2016), REVELO (2017–2025), and De Natura Communis (2024–2025), for four instrumental groups and orchestra.
His six-scene opera, REVELO, inspired by the Apocalypse of St. John and conceived with the artist Nieto, has been presented internationally. The full version, including the acts "Aves" and "Voix Tonnerre," written thanks to the New Worlds program of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, will be premiered by Le Balcon under the direction of Maxime Pascal. His current projects include "Vulgaris Fictio," an instrumental septet commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture; "ARC," a film concert in collaboration with Nieto; and "Five Black Rivers: Ganges du cycle arts & sciences" in collaboration with JM Chomaz.