Carla Lucero


Carla Lucero is an American composer and librettist. A native of Manhattan Beach, California, she now resides in Napa, California. She is of New Mexican and South Asian descent. While at CalArts, she studied with composers Rand Steiger, Leonard Rosenman and Alan Chapman. Her work is concentrated in opera, ballet and chamber music, and her compositional style has been described as complex, and highly melodic, drawing upon the Romantic and Neo-Classical periods, as well as from Flamenco music. She is recognized for incorporating period instruments and indigenous percussion into her orchestration.

Education

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

Works

Los AngelesLas Tres Mujeres de Jerusalén LA Opera Reckoning Ramona Heidi Duckler Dance Juana Opera UCLA Out of Circulation, La Brea Woman, Life in the Lap Lane, Most Wanted, Liquid Assets Collage Dance Theater
San FranciscoREVOLT San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s New Music Ensemble House of Names Marika Brussel Dance One O’Clock West Edge Opera El Castillo Interior Earplay New Music Ensemble WUORNOS Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
International Premieres/Performances of New Arrangements
  • Mexico, Chile and Spain La Revuelta, ¡Bronces! ¡Bronces!, Oranges, Ice, Rough Trick, The Capture, Overture, Anticipation, ''Cartas de Amor''

Awards