Dr. Juan Carlos Vasquez (www.jcvasquez.com) is an award-winning composer, researcher, and game developer. His works are frequently featured worldwide, having premiered in over 30 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Vasquez has received grants, commissions, and/or prizes from numerous esteemed institutions, including the ZKM, the International Computer Music Association, the Nokia Research Center, Colombia's Ministry of Culture, the Sibelius Academy Foundation, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Arts Promotion Centre in Finland, the Finnish National Gallery, and CW+ in partnership with the Royal College of Music in London, UK.

Events and venues featuring Vasquez’s works include Ars Electronica (AU), the Ateneum Art Museum (FI), The New York City Library for Performing Arts (Lincoln Center, NY, USA), Berklee College of Music, Matera Intermedia Festival (IT), Sonorities Festival Belfast (UK), BEAST FEaST (UK), and the New Music Miami ISCM Festival (USA), along with numerous academic events at universities worldwide.

As a researcher, Vasquez's writings can be found in the Computer Music Journal, the Leonardo Music Journal, and proceedings from leading conferences in the field. Vasquez received his education from the Sibelius Academy (FI), Aalto University (FI), and the University of Virginia (US). Babel Scores publishes his scores, and his music is distributed by Naxos, MIT Press (US), Important Records (US), and Phasma Music (Poland). Vasquez is sponsored by Genelec (FI) and is a member of the Society of Finnish Composers.

Note: Prof. Vasquez is currently accepting inquiries for potential Ph.D. supervision in the fields of music technology, sound-related research, game studies, and/or video game development.

Artistic Research

Sound Art

Music Composition and Performance

New Media Art

Gamification

Game Design and Development

Spatial Audio

Music Technology

Jefferson Fellow - University of Virginia - August 2021 to August 2023

Graduate Teaching Assistant - University of Virginia - August 2018 to July 2021

Lecturer and Researcher - Aalto University - March 2015 to 2018

CAT208TC - Audio Landscape Design

”Best Computer Music” Award | Latin American Showcase of the International Computer Music Association | July 2023

Sound of the Year Awards 2021 | Composed with Sound Category | Highly Commended | 2022

Recipient of the Jefferson Fellowship | The premier graduate fellowship offered at the University of Virginia | Jefferson Scholars Foundation | Charlottesville, VA, USA | 2021

Outstanding Leonardo Peer Reviewer of the season | MIT Press | Boston, MI, USA | 2020

WOCMAT 2019 International Electroacoustic Music Young Composer Award | National Tsing Hua University | Taiwan | 2019 | Nominated

Primus Master at the Conferment Ceremony of the School of Arts, Design, and Architecture | Aalto University | Espoo, Finland | 2019

The Engine Room 2019: International Sound Art Competition | London, UK | 2019 | Finalist

Concept Award DigiDemo | The Promotion Center for Audiovisual Culture (AVEK) | Helsinki, Finland | 2017

ACM/SIGCHI Best of CHI awards - Honorable mention (Paper) | CHI’17, Denver | 2017

Dean’s Grant for Exceptional Merit | Aalto University | 2016

Award to Excellence in Art, Design, and the Production of Sound | Klingtgut Symposium on Sound, the Audio Engineering Society’s president, and the AES Student Section in Hamburg | Germany | 2016