Juan Pablo Carreño Composer

Formed in Colombia, The United States and France, Juan Pablo Carreño studied composition at the Javeriana University in Bogotá with Guillermo Gaviria and Harold Vásquez, where he graduated in 2003. Later on, he was a scholarship recipient at Florida International University where he studied with Orlando Jacinto García and worked as a professor of composition and musical theory. In France, he studied composition with Jean-Luc Hervé at the Conservatory of Nanterre, and with Gérard Pesson at the Paris Conservatory, where he graduated in 2010.

He was appointed resident in the Academy of France in Rome (Villa Medici) between 2011-13, and he was also selected in New York for the program ICELab, to work in 2012 with the International Contemporary Ensemble.

In 2007 he obtained an artistic residence in Mexico from the Colombian Ministry of Culture and Mexico’s FONCA. In 2008 he was selected for the composition workshop held by Salvatore Sciarrino at the Centre Acanthes (Metz, France). In 2010, he is invited as composer in residence of the festival Musique-sur-ciel, that commissioned him the work Golpe en el diafragma. In 2011, he was invited as artist in residence of Centre Intermondes in La Rochelle.

Co-founder in Paris of the Le Balcon orchestra, Juan Pablo Carreño collaborates regularly with Colombian artist Nieto, with whom he conceived his opera-video Garras de oro in 2013, based on the homonymous Colombian silent film from the 1920s. In 2015 he premiered La Digitale, a chamber opera about the effects of digitoxin poisoning, a commission from the Marseille Opera and Musicatreize ensemble with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Musical Foundation. In June 2023, he premiered his opera Life is a Dream is Spain and Colombia, a commission from La Chapelle Harmonique orchestra and the French state. In November 2023, he premiered in Colombia his work La resurrección de la fe for large Orchestra, choirs, and soloists, a commission from Nova et Vetera and the National University of Colombia with the support of the Ernst Von Siemmens Musical Foundation.