Felipe Hoyos-González (Cartagena, Colombia) is a composer passionate about the creative dialogue of musical composition across various disciplines: from opera, chamber music, and orchestra to film music, electroacoustic music, video games, and art installations. Some of his notable works include INSIDE, an installation by artist Celine Daemen with music by Hoyos-González, selected for the Fast Forward Staatsschauspiel Dresden curatorship (2020), and Opúsculo Caribeño (2015), performed by the Medellin Philharmonic Orquestra at the Cartagena Music Festival.

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Felipe is a co-founder of La Nueva Escena, a collective of Latin American artists, with whom he has premiered two operas with librettos by Venezuelan writer and filmmaker G. Galo, Melpómene (2017) and Disparatismo o cómo acabar con el arte (2019), as well as the experimental film ventalla (2021), which was nominated for Best Experimental Film at the XIX BOGOSHORTS (2021). He is a co-founder alongside soprano Emily Venturella of Huitaca Ensemble, a musical duo that explores the intersection of the human voice and new technologies.

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His music seeks a narrative of high harmonic transparency and rhythmic-melodic textural relationships. He draws inspiration from literature and the human existential condition, with his works constantly exploring the concept of the collective anxiety experienced by the digital generation, the perception of time, and new technologies as expressive extensions of human beings.

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He is currently pursuing doctoral studies in music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he researches algorithmic composition and contemporary opera. He holds a master's degree in music from Conservatorium Maastricht in The Netherlands (2019), and an undergraduate degree in music from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá (2016).