The composer Juan Camilo Vásquez was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1984. He studied in Stuttgart, Germany, with the italian composer Marco Stroppa. Further courses, tutorships and individual classes have been carried out in Colombia, Argentina, Germany, Spain and Austria under Pierluigi Billone, Chaya Czernowin, Graciela Paraskevaídis, Coriún Aharonián, Gabriela Ortiz, Dieter Ammann and Jose Manuel López López among others.
In 2014 he was awarded the Schloss Wiepersdorf Scholarship for an artistic residency in Berlin. Some of his compositions received international awards such as the New Note composition competition in Croatia with the piece Verschleierte Spiegel for solo violin (2015); the Gustavo Becerra Schmidt Electronic composition competition in Chile (2013), under the category Mixed Music (instruments and electronics);  the National Composition Contest for Young Composers held by the Colombian Ministry of Culture (2010); and the National Composition Contest for Students held by the Colombian Ministry of Education (2007). His music has been played in Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, France, Germany, Spain, Austria, Luxembourg and Slovenia. 
Currently, he teaches composition at the District University of Bogotá. He is cofounder of Bogotana Records.

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