Carla Lucero

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name = Carla Lucero


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birthplace = Los Angeles, California USA
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occupation = Composer, Librettist
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influences = Giuseppe Verdi, Alban Berg, Igor Stravinsky
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Carla Lucero is a female Composer/Librettist. A native of Los Angeles, she studied with composers Leonard Rosenman, Morton Subotnik, Alan Chapman and Rand Stieger. Lucero developed a highly melodic compositional style, drawing upon sources from Romantic and Neo-Classical music.

Education

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
* [http://www.collagedancetheatre.org Collage Dance Theater] : original compositions written for Most Wanted (presented in a city jail), LaBrea Woman (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
*OUT Magazine, "Top Ten in Music", 2001 [http://out.com/out100/alumni_2001.asp OUT 2001]
*Advocate Magazine, "Best of Stage", 2001 [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2002_Jan_22/ai_81790800 Advocate 2001]
*San Francisco Arts Commission, 2001, 2006
*California Arts Council, 2000
*Creative Work Fund, 2001 [http://www.creativeworkfund.org/pages/bios/carla_lucero.html CWF Award]
*Open Meadows Foundation, 2000, 2006
*Horizons Foundation, 2007
*Astraea Foundation for Lesbian Justice, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2007
*Zellerbach Family Foundation, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007

References

* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/06/17/PK222116.DTL San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, June 17, 2001]
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2001_July_3/ai_75997148 Advocate, The, July 3, 2001]
*Dead Ends: The Pursuit, Conviction and Execution of Female Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos, ISBN 978-0312984182, p. 291
*Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in the United States, ISBN 0717258157, p. 319
*Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia, ISBN 157356267X, p. 379

External links

* [http://www.wuornos.org Wuornos, the opera]
* [http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/Qfestival01/WournsOpera.html "Wuornos"-Opera, World Premiere]
* [http://www.tenthmuse.us/juana.php Juana Opera]