Antonio María Valencia (10 November 1902 – 22 July 1952) was a Colombian composer and pianist, one of his country’s most important classical musicians in the first half of the twentieth century.
Among his most important cultural achievements was to promote the creation of the first conservatory in the southwest region of Colombia in the city of Cali.
He received his first musical lessons from his father, Julio Valencia, and continued his pianistic studies with Honorio Alarcón at the Bogotá Conservatory.
Thanks to a scholarship he traveled in 1923 to France in order to study piano and composition at the Schola Cantorum with Paul Braud and Vincent d'Indy.
He composed piano, chamber and choral pieces, using folk melodies and rhythms with impressionist harmonies.