ERIC ESTRADA VALADEZ
Composer

Bio

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Eric Estrada’s music balances his artistic voice with his cultural roots and explores themes such as migration, nature, and the fusion of academic and popular music. He is also interested in narrative and storytelling, frequently drawing inspiration from poetry and literature. 

 

His music has been performed in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and has received several awards, including the Arturo Márquez Composition Award (2019). In addition, he has won a number of competitions, including SOLI'S 30x30x30 Project (2024), MUSIQA’s Emergent Composer’s Competition (2023), The Composers Competition New Symphony Vienna (2020), the National Composition Competition for Percussion Quartet SAFA (2019), and the Joaquín Gutierrez Heras Composition Competition (2017).

 

He has received commissions from MUSIQA, the Texas New Music Festival, AURA Contemporary Ensemble, Safa Percussion Quartet, Loop 38, the Korea International Music Academy, the Blaffer Museum, and the Bowdoin International Music Festival. He has also been awarded grants from ARTZenter, Mexico’s National Endowment for the Arts, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, the Arts Music Society, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His collaborations include ensembles and orchestras such as the Albany Symphony, Puebla State Symphony, Orquesta Mexicana de las Artes, the Moores Chamber Orchestra, Hub New Music, the Kazoku Saxophone Quartet, Project Fusion Quartet, SOLI Chamber Ensemble, and Vortice Ensemble. In addition, his music has been selected for performance at festivals including Tutti International Music Festival, CampGround 2024, New Music on the Bayou, Festival of New American Music, Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Texas New Music Festival, Onix Marathon of New Music, among others.

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He an alumnus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (BM and MM) and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in composition at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music under the guidance of Rob Smith.​​