Jessica Rueda Vásquez

Born in Barrancabermeja (Colombia) in 1990. From 2019 to 2023, she studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s International Institute of Chamber Music with professors Hansjörg Schellenberger, Radovan Vlatković, Gustavo Núñez, Jacques Zoon and Pascal Moraguès.

She began her studies at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in 2007 with Luz Ángela Torres, graduating as a music teacher in 2013. During the 2014-2015 academic year, she studied a graduate programme at the Liceo Conservatory of Barcelona, thanks to a scholarship granted by Fundación Carolina. From 2015 to 2019 she studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s Fundación Bancaria La Caixa Horn Chair with Radovan Vlatković and received masterclasses from André Cazalet, Sabine Meyer, Reiner Wehle and José Vicente Castelló, among others. In 2017 Her Majesty Queen Sofía handed her the Acknowledgement to the most outstanding chamber music group in the wind category, as a member of the O Globo Quintet.

In 2008 she participated in the 6th Youth Encounter with the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia. In 2011 she took part in the Horntage Festival in Rockstock (Germany), where she received masterclasses from Sarah Willis, Christian Lampert and Michael Hoetzel. She was also selected to participate in the Santa Catarina Music Festival (Brazil, 2010 and 2013). She has been a member of the Youth Philharmonic of Colombia from 2010 to 2012, and has performed with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogotá. She has been principal hornist with the Symphony Orchestra of Bogota Foundation and, from 2009 to 2014, she was a temporary musician at the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia.

As a student of the School, she has been part of the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Zubin Mehta, Péter Eötvös, Juanjo Mena, Pablo Heras Casado, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Jaime Martín, Pablo González, András Schiff and Plácido Domingo. She has also been a member of the Sinfonietta under the baton of Jorge Rotter and that of the Camerata, conducted by Anne-Sophie Mutter, as well as that of the O Globo Quintet. She has been a member of the Fundación Mutua Madrileña Ensemble, and she is currently part of the Globo Ensemble at Madrid’s International Institute of Chamber Music.