I am a Mexican composer, theorist, and clarinetist born in the city of Coatepec, Veracruz. I began my musical studies at the ISMEV (Instituto Superior de Música del Estado de Veracruz) in 2010 under the tutelage of M.Mus., Raquel Contreras; at that institution, I obtained an associate’s degree in orchestral performance with a specialty in clarinet in 2015. Between that year and 2019, I completed a double degree in music with a focus on theory and composition at the University of New Mexico (USA), graduating with the highest honors summa cum laude.  Similarly, between 2020 and 2022, I completed a master's degree with a focus on advanced theory and composition under the tutelage of Dr. José-Luis Hurtado at the aforementioned institution, graduating again with maximum honors. I now hold a DMA in Interdisciplinary Digital Media (Composition) from the renowned Arizona State University (USA), where I studied under the guidance of Dr. Garth Paine.

 

Among my different awards, the following stand out: 

 

2025                 Artist-in-Residence- Spatial Audio and Machine Learning

                         RSA-Residency.

 

2023-2024        Composer-in-Residence- Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra

                         Arizona State University.

 

2022                 Composition Commission- PRISMS Composition Festival

                         Arizona State University.

 

2022                 First Prize- IX Encuentro de Compositores

                         Universidad de la Plata (ARG).

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2022                 Composer-in-Residence- Germina.Cciones Latin American Springs

                         Universidad Católica de Chile (CHI).

 

2021                 First Prize- Scott Wilkinson Composition Competition

                         The University of New Mexico.

 

2019                 First Prize- Concurso de Composición: Jóvenes Compositores

                         Xalapa Symphony Orchestra (MX).

 

2018                 First Prize- International Festival for Composers and Performers

                         Aguascalientes (MX).

 

2013                 First Prize- National Interpretation Competition

                         Xalapa (MX).

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My music has been played primarily in Mexico and the United States, with an expansion to countries such as Chile, Argentina, and Spain.

In conjunction with my activity as a composer, I am developing theoretical-experimental research, which consists of the exploration of  VR/XR world-building in addition to 3D audio with HOA processing as a compositional and analytical methodology in conjunction with an Experiment in Perceptual Structures of Spatialized Audio, which uses the consideration of stable-diffusion as a function for structural analysis and its possible context-perceptual implications. Likewise, and in partnership with Dr. Lindsey Reymore, I am working on a VR/XR project called MILES, which seeks the implementation of tridimensional visualizations of musical dimensions such as timbre, texture, and spectral content organization based on proportional spatiotemporal relationships. Alongside my compositional model, I am focusing on the development of a graphic and digital process that will allow the virtual representation of tridimensional scores using AR/XR interactions with AI and gaze/hand-tracking movement programming, which, combined with the aforesaid experiment in music perception, will aim to describe the cognitive implications of multitemporal and non-linear musical trajectories.

Finally, during my years of study, both in clarinet and in theory and composition, I have had the opportunity to collaborate with world-renowned professors such as Dr. Augusta Read Thomas (Tanglewood Music Center), Dr. Kyong Mee Choi (Chicago College of Performing Arts-Roosevelt University), Dr. Patricia Alessandrini (Stanford University) or Dr. Stephanie Zelnick (University of Kansas) among other professors of distinguished trajectory.