He was born in Barva de Heredia, Costa Rica, in 1966. His musical training in piano and composition was completed at the Castella Conservatory and the School of Musical Arts of the University of Costa Rica (UCR). Among her main teachers are Roger Wesby, Mario Alfagüell, Luis Diego Herra, Bernal Flores, Benjamín Gutiérrez and Pilar Aguilar.
Her compositional work has been recognized with various awards: National Arts Award (1984), for her Bribrí Meditation for solo double bass; Aquileo Echeverría National Prize in Composition (2007), for his Symphony No. 2 "Humanities"; ACAM Award (2010), for his Sonata dall' Inferno for piano; Aquileo Echeverría National Prize in Composition (2012), for his Concerto No. 1 “Initiatic” for piano and orchestra; and ACAM Award (2016), for his Psalm No.1: Of the Wisdom of King Solomon for Symphony Orchestra.
Much of her authorial catalog has been appreciated in countries in America and Europe, including at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. Some of his works have been recorded in the series Memoria Musical Costarricense Vols. I, II and III (University of Costa Rica), CD Disparate y Locura (National Autonomous University of Mexico – University of Costa Rica), CD Reflections of Don Quixote (Autonomous University of Madrid), CD Tiempos (Heredia Symphony Orchestra) and CD Nuestros – Costa Rican Chamber Music (University of Costa Rica). Her first monographic album, Rituales y Leyendas, was published in 2012 and includes works for various groups, performed by musicians from various countries. In 2013, her second monograph was presented, the double album Salmos Cotidianos, with a selection of her symphonic and symphonic-choral works. Her most recent production, The Memoirs of Sibö, is an album-book that recreates Costa Rican indigenous mythology with interpretations of the Kaltak Wood Quintet and the narration of Camacho himself, presented in November 2015.
In 2012, Mr. Camacho donated around fifty scores from his catalog to the Archive of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, in Madrid, being the only Latin American composer to preserve his work in that prestigious institution. Likewise, in November 2015, he officially delivered all of his manuscripts to the Historical Musical Archive of the University of Costa Rica, being the first Costa Rican composer to offer his original heritage as safekeeping to said institution.
The Sonata of him dall' Inferno (I. Allegro con fuocco), Quijotada No. 3 and Nocturno were selected as imposed works in the I International Contemporary Music Competition "The music of the last 100 years" (Lithuania, 2014); as well as De sketches y diabluras was commissioned as a work imposed in the advanced category of the VIII María Clara Cullell International Piano Competition (Costa Rica, 2015).
As a lecturer and composer, Mr. Camacho has been invited by the University of Valladolid, the Higher School of Music of Catalonia, the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Complutense University of Madrid, the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, the Festival of Havana of Contemporary Music, the First Costa Rican Cultural Day in Cuba, the Leo Brouwer Chamber Music Festival (Cuba), the Vilnius State Academy (Lithuania), the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico and the Musical Composition Seminar (Costa Delicious). His music has also been performed at the Cádiz International Music Festival, Miami Festival, International Double Reed Conference (New York), Pará International Music Festival (Brazil), International Latin American Academic Music Festival and Classical Music Festival by the Wine Roads (Mendoza, Argentina).
He is currently a Professor at the University of Costa Rica, where he serves as Deputy Director of the School of General Studies, Coordinator of the Free Courses and Teaching Extension Program, and professor of the Basic Stage of Music at the Atlantic Regional Headquarters. Likewise, he is Student Life Coordinator of the University of Ibero-America (UNIBE) and President of the Heredia Symphony Association.
He has also been recognized with the Favorite Son distinctions of the cantons of Turrialba and Barva.
