He was born in Samaniego, Colombia, in 1995. Since 2022, he has been a student at the Reina Sofía School of Music, in the IF International Foundation Trumpet Chair, where he earned a Master’s degree in Musical Performance under the guidance of professors Reinhold Friedrich and Manuel Blanco. He is a scholarship recipient of the Santo Domingo Foundation and the Albéniz Foundation. In 2024 and 2025, he received the Diploma for the Most Outstanding Student of his chair from Her Majesty Queen Sofía.

He graduated from the National University of Colombia, where he studied under Juan Fernando Avendaño. Throughout his career, Andrés Felipe has performed with prestigious orchestras such as the Spanish National Orchestra, the Madrid Philharmonia, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Madrid, the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra, the Colombian Symphony Orchestra, the New Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bogotá Symphony Orchestra Foundation, the Symphony Orchestra of the National University of Colombia, and the FOSBO Brass Ensemble.

He was a member of the Colombian Youth Philharmonic, with which he toured important venues in the Americas and Europe. In 2019, he was selected to participate in The Orchestra of the Americas during its tour of Mexico. He also took part in the 2019–2020 season with the FMM Symphony Orchestra in Morelia, Michoacán.

He has won first prize in several competitions, including the 4th José María Ortí Soriano International Competition in Xixona, Spain (2024), the Latin American Orchestral Repertoire Competition (2020), and the Second Orchestral Repertoire Competition for Trumpet (2018).

Currently, he serves as principal trumpet in the Colombian Brass Quintet, with which he won third place in the International Competition of the Ljubljana Slovenia Festival – Brass Quintets and Quartets 2025, and in HISCABRASS, with which he was part of the Young Performers Series of the Bank of the Republic in 2021.

He has refined his skills with internationally renowned trumpet masters such as Eric Aubier (France), Manuel Blanco (Spain), Luis González (Spain), Ole Edvard Antonsen (Norway), José María Ortí Soriano (Spain), Philippe Schartz (United Kingdom), Mark Hughes (USA), and Philippe Lithzer (France).

As a student of the Reina Sofía School of Music, he has performed with the Freixenet Orchestra, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Juanjo Mena.