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Occupation
  
Composer, Librettist

Name
  
Carla Lucero

Role
  
Composer



Education
  
California Institute of the Arts

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Carla Lucero is an American composer/librettist. A native of Los Angeles, she studied with composers Leonard Rosenman, Morton Subotnik, Alan Chapman and Rand Stieger. She developed a highly melodic compositional style, drawing upon sources from Romantic and Neo-Classical music.

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Education

She has a B.F.A. in Music Composition from California Institute of the Arts, 1986

Works

San Francisco

  • Wuornos (2001) An operatic adaptation of Aileen Wuornos' life
  • Juana an opera-in-development, adapted from the historical novel Sor Juana's Second Dream written by Alicia Gaspar de Alba (co-librettist), and published in 1999 by University of New Mexico Press. Juana Inés de la Cruz

    • Los Angeles

  • Collage Dance Theater: original compositions written for Most Wanted (presented in a city jail), LaBrea Man (a site-specific dance performance), Life in the Lap Lane, Out of Circulation and Liquid Assets.

    • Awards

  • Lester Horton Outstanding Achievement in Dance Award, 1998
  • Meet the Composer, 1999
  • Advocate Magazine, "Best of Stage", 2001 Advocate 2001
  • San Francisco Arts Commission, 2001, 2006
  • California Arts Council, 2000
  • Creative Work Fund, 2001 CWF Award
  • Open Meadows Foundation, 2000, 2006
  • Horizons Foundation, 2007
  • Zellerbach Family Foundation, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007

    • References

    Carla Lucero Wikipedia
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