Martín Rincón Botero
Composer | Conductor

Composer and conductor from Colombia with a strong interest in musical meaning. His music has been performed on different occasions in Germany, Austria, Colombia, Poland, Spain and the Netherlands, for example in Klangspuren IEMA (Graz), Mouvements (Saarbrücken) and Unerhörte Musik (Berlin), by ensembles and orchestras such as the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken, Trompo (Amsterdam), the Symphonic Orchestra of the Lübeck University of Music, Boreas Quartett Bremen, Ensemble Volans (Hamburg) and Gdańskie Trio Stroikowe (Gdańsk). His composition teachers were amongst others Dieter Mack and Diego Vega.

Currently he serves as the director of the Spandau Youth Symphony Orchestra in Berlin. He has also conducted a range of ensembles and orchestras, including the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra (Hungary), the Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais e Oeiras (Portugal), the LandesJugendEnsemble für Neue Musik Schleswig-Holstein (Lübeck), Ensemble 900 (Lugano), the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Charlottenburg, Spandauer Blasorchester (Berlin), Wind & Brass Ensemble and Concert Band (Hamburg), and ensembles for contemporary music at the University of Music Lübeck.

He was a semi-finalist in the conducting competition of the International Conducting Academy and Competition of the Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais e Oeiras in 2023. Read full biography.