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Juan Carlos Vasquez is a Colombian composer and sound artist. Vasquez has participated as a sonic artist, composer and/or performer in events in over 30 countries of the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania, including an acclaimed interactive installation for the Milan Furniture Fair reviewed as "one of the most eye-catching sights of the fair" by the Architects' Journal, while working as a sound director for a research project at the Pilot University of Colombia. In 2013 the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in partnership with the Royal College of Music selected him as one of the winners for the "Rhapsody Composition Project", to write under commission the sonic counterpart for the sculpture "The Acrobat", by Allen Jones RA. The Grammy-winning American composer Eric Whitacre was linked to this project as ambassador In 2014, the Sibelius Birth Town Foundation, Sibhack and the Ateneum Museum commissioned Vasquez to compose an electroacoustic rendition to Jean Sibelius' Romance Op. 24 No.9, as part of the official 150th anniversary of the Finnish composer's birth. The "Sibelius Collage" was premiered in October 2014 at the museum's Auditorium. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ca...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
