Dr. Carolina Heredia
Composer
She/Her
Carolina Heredia (b. 1981 – Córdoba, Argentina) is a composer of acoustic and electronic music with a specialization in interdisciplinary collaboration and intermedia art. Her musical training is rooted in multiple traditions of Western European classical music, South American folk, and Argentine popular music.
Her music has been programmed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, the Museum of Latin American Art, National Sawdust, the NYC SONIC Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival, performed by ensembles such as the LA Phil New Music Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, the JACK Quartet, and the LA Chamber Orchestra. Works such as Ius in Bello and Ausencias/Ausências/Absences address themes related to her experience as a Latin American immigrant in the United States—displacement, memory, resistance, and solidarity—interweaving chamber music with electronics, visual art, dance, and interactive technologies.
Her compositions have been awarded by the Fromm Foundation and the Barlow Endowment, among others, published by Hal Leonard and released by Orchid Classics, Navona Records, and Albany Records. Heredia earned a Bachelor of Music Composition with a concentration in Folk and Popular Music from the National University of Villa María (Argentina) and a Master's and Doctorate in Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she was also a Research Fellow at the Humanities Institute. She was a postdoctoral fellow and Assistant Professor of Music Composition at the University of Missouri. She also served as Associate Director for the Mizzou New Music Initiative and the Director of Programs for the American Composers Forum. She currently works as a freelance composer, splitting her time between Los Angeles, California, and Córdoba, Argentina.
Email: caro@carolinaheredia.com