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. Currently, I am pursuing my doctoral studies at the renowned Arizona State University (USA), where I was awarded a teaching assistantship in the study of Dr. Garth Paine.
Among my different awards, the following stand out: first place in category C within the National Competition of Musical Interpretation, Mexico 2013. In the United States, he received commissions first, from Sandia Brass in 2018 to write a piece to commemorate the Day of the Earth (Ionospheric Wind) and, later in 2019, from the NMCE (New Mexico Contemporary Ensemble) to close the concert of the Composers' Symposium of the University of New Mexico and the Society of Composers Inc. In 2019, my string quartet Nebula was selected to be premiered by the famous José White String Quartet at the International Chamber Music Festival of Aguascalientes (Mexico). Also in 2019, I was selected winner of the first prize in the contest "Young Composers" launched by the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the foundation of Veracruz with the piece Fanfare for Unwelcome Men. In 2020, I won first prize in the Scott Wilkinson Composition Competition at the Composers' Symposium at UNM with my piece PRIS-MA. In 2022, my piece Centaurus was chosen to be premiered as the closing composition within the XI ECI Encuentro entre Compositores e Instrumentistas at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata in Argentina. Also in 2022, I was chosen as one of only eight Latin-American composers for the residence Germina.Cciones 2022, where I am writing a piece for the renowned Mexican ensemble Trio Siqueiros. My music has been played primarily in Mexico and the United States, with an expansion in 2022 to latitudes 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.