Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann's music has been performed throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe. His works find inspiration in a wide range of subjects, from medieval music to Latin American modern art. His awards include a 2010 Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Aaron Copland Award, Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, fellowships from Vitae, Associação de Apoio à Cultura (Brazil) and the Nevada Arts Council; the Jacob Druckman Award from the Aspen Music Festival, first prize in the New England Philharmonic Call for Scores, and grants from the American Music Center, St. Botolph Club Foundation, and Meet the Composer.  His residencies include the Copland House, MacDowell Colony (Norton Stevens Fellow) and Atlantic Center for the Arts. He has been commissioned by organizations such as the Nevada Music Teachers Association, ALEA III, and the Henderson Symphony Orchestra.  In 2008 he was featured as composer-in-residence at SLAM, Seattle Latin American Music Festival. He has appeared as guest composer in the Festival Internacional de Chihuahua (Mexico), Festival Internacional de Música Clásica Contemporánea (Lima, Peru), his works being part of new music festivals in Asunción (Paraguay), Monterrey (Mexico) and Archipel Music Festival (Switzerland) along with festivals and conferences in the U.S. He has participated in the Composers Conference at Wellesley College, June in Buffalo, and Aspen Music Festival. Having studied violin and composition in his native Lima and subsequently in São Paulo, Brazil, Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann moved to the U.S. in 1998, where he studied composition with Fredrick Kaufman, John Harbison, and Lukas Foss. In 2004, he obtained a D.M.A. in composition at Boston University and joined the faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, becoming director of NEXTET, UNLV’s new music ensemble, and later co-director of N.E.O.N., Nevada Encounters of New Music. In 2010 he joined the faculty at Ithaca College as assistant professor of composition. He is currently director of áltavoz , a Latin American composers collective.