Vicente Atria is a Chilean composer and drummer. His music riffs on a wide range of idioms, from microtonal renaissance dances to Korean sanjo, creating playful, vibrant sonic worlds. A Deutscher Jazzpreis recipient, Atria’s work has been commissioned or performed by the Sun Ra Arkestra, Ensemble Musikfabrik, JACK Quartet, Wet Ink Ensemble, Ensemble Proton Bern, Yarn/Wire, and International Contemporary Ensemble. He has been featured in venues and festivals including Moers Festival (Germany), Skanu Mezs (Latvia), MATA Festival (NY), Wigmore Hall (UK), The Shed, Roulette Intermedium, The Jazz Gallery, and The Stone (all NY). He is a recipient of a 2025 Fondation des Treilles Musical Composition Prize, a 2024 Busoni Komponistpreis (nominated), a Wet Ink Ensemble AIR residence (2023), a MacDowell Fellowship (2023), an ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award (2022), an ACF Create award (2021), The Shed Open Call commission (2019), Chilean Ministry of Culture Fondo de la Música grants (2022 and 2020), and an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award (2016 finalist). He holds a DMA in Composition from Columbia University.