Special thanks to the various arts councils who have provided funding for various projects and artistic development.
I gratefully acknowledge the support of the Chalmers Family Fund administered by the Ontario Arts Council.
Biography
Felipe Téllez is a Colombian-Canadian composer and orchestrator whose work spans film, television, video games, and the concert stage. Winner of the 2025 Macondo Award for Best Music from the Colombian Film Academy for his score to Estimados Señores, Felipe is also a multi-grant winning composer supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts. His music blends modern electronics, Colombian folk, and contemporary orchestral writing.
His work appears in feature films, festival premieres (TIFF), and theatrical releases across the Americas. In games, Felipe composed the adaptive score for Wartorn, integrating his cinematic writing with interactive music design in a more cohesive part of his overall media practice.
Felipe’s concert music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles including the Bogotá Philharmonic, the Colombian National Symphony Orchestra, and the Canadian Studio Symphony, an ensemble he co-founded to champion media music and new orchestral work.
Alongside his creative output, Felipe has taught composition, orchestration, and digital music production for over ten years at the University of Toronto, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Sheridan College, developing contemporary curricula that link acoustic writing, electronic production, and modern scoring practices.
Felipe continues to compose across film, games, and the concert stage while mentoring emerging composers internationally, grounding his practice in research creation and artistic inquiry that links orchestral writing, electronic sound, and contemporary media scoring.
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Eligible to work in the EU.