Born in Samaniego (Colombia) in 1995. Since 2022, he has been a student at the Reina Sofía School of Music, in the Trumpet Chair, where he earned a Master’s Degree in Musical Performance under the tutelage of professors Reinhold Friedrich and Manuel Blanco. He is a recipient of scholarships from the Fundación Santo Domingo and the Fundación Albéniz. In 2024 and 2025, he received the Diploma for the most outstanding student in his chair from Her Majesty Queen Sofía.
He is a graduate of the National University of Colombia, where he studied under the tutelage of 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 National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, the New Philharmonia 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 Youth Philharmonic of Colombia, with which he toured major 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 participated in the 2019-2020 season with the FMM Symphony Orchestra in Morelia, Michoacán.
He 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).
He currently 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 HISCABRASS, with which he was part of the Banco de la República Young Performers series in 2021.
He has refined his skills with internationally renowned trumpet masters such as Eric Aubier (France), Manuel Blanco (Spain), Luis González (Spain), Ole Antonsen (Norway), José María Ortí Soriano (Spain), Philippe Schartz (United Kingdom), Mark Hughes (USA), and Philippe Lithzer (France).
As a student at the Reina Sofía School of Music, he has performed with the Freixenet Orchestra (conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Juanjo Mena). He is currently a member of the Fanny Hensel Quartet.