Camila Barrientos Ossio

2021 Alumni Enterprise Award Winner
clarinet (‘11, ‘12)

Project: Música para respirar 24/7
Real-time, online video concerts for COVID patients across Latin America and beyond

Camila Barrientos Ossio is the Principal Clarinet of the Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de São Paulo. Originally from Cochabamba, Bolivia Camila has played with the New York Philharmonic, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Miami Symphony, among others. She has performed in venues including Carnegie Hall, Berlin Konzerthaus, the Kennedy Center, (le) Poisson Rouge and other unexpected concert spaces such as the St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican and the Island of the Sun in lake Titicaca. A passionate chamber musician, she is a former member of the award-winning quintet The City of Tomorrow. She earned both her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, and has appeared at the Banff Center of the Arts in Canada, the Britten Pears Festival in the UK and the MostArts Festival in Alfred, New York.

She is the co-founder and co-artistic director of La Sociedad Boliviana de Música de Cámara (The Bolivian Chamber Music Society.)