Andres Felipe Palacios

Andres Felipe Palacios began studying guitar at the age of eight in his native Colombia. His first performances were rooted in Colombian Andean music, leading him to numerous festivals and national competitions. His distinctions include: winner of the Young Performers Series of the Banco de la República’s National Concert Season; performances at Festival Colombia al Parque; finalist at the 39th Festival Mono Núñez; Grand Prize for Excellence at the Concurso Nacional de Música Andina Colombiana Cacique Tundama; special mention at Festival Hatoviejo Cotrafa; and Grand Prize for Excellence at the Festival Nacional de la Canción Zue De Oro. More recently, he won the Ex-Aequo Emerging Artists Initiative, performing for Austin Classical Guitar at The Rosette, recording a group album, and premiering Eight Sketches on Norman Lewis by Thomas Flippin.

In addition to Latin American folk traditions, Andres performs a wide-ranging repertoire of classical and contemporary works, exploring musical expressions across eras and cultures in a dialogue between composer, performer, and audience.

Committed to community engagement, he served as the Peabody musician-in-residence at Springwell Senior Living,  the Music-for-While program at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and was artist-in-residence for the Baltimore Classical Guitar Society at Casa de la Cultura – Nuestras Raíces Inc.. He also gave masterclasses and workshops at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a recipient of the InterPlay Fellowship.

Andres earned a B.M. in guitar pPerformance with honors from the University of Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia, and completed an M.M. in guitar and pedagogy and a Graduate Performance Diploma under professors Manuel Barrueco and Franco Platino  at the Peabody Institute, on full scholarship.

He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in classical guitar performance with professor Adam Holzman at The University of Texas at Austin, and is a scholarship ambassador for the Latin GRAMMYS.