Vicente Atria is a Chilean composer and drummer. Described as “virtuosic”, “revelatory” (The New York Times) and “ecstatic,” (The Guardian), his music riffs on a wide range of idioms, from microtonal renaissance dances to Korean sanjo, creating ludic, futuristic sonic worlds.
A 2022-23 Wet Ink Ensemble Artist-in-Residence, Vicente’s work has been commissioned and performed by the Sun Ra Arkestra, JACK Quartet, Wet Ink Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, and International Contemporary Ensemble. He has been featured in venues and festivals including Moers Festival (Germany), MATA Festival (NY), The Shed (NY), Roulette Intermedium (NY), The Stone (NY), Festival Mixtur (Spain), and ATLÁNTICX Festival (NY).
He is a recipient of the Deutscher Jazzpreis (2023), the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award (2022), an ACF Create award (2021), The Shed Open Call commission (2019), and two Chilean Ministry of Culture Fondo de la Música grants (2022 & 2020). He holds a DMA in Composition from Columbia University.