TCC 41. Resonancia Natural - Dr. Carolina Heredia
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features the composer Dr. Carolina Heredia and her piece Resonancia Natural. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Dr. Heredia about her background, multidisciplinary composition, sonic connections with nature and much more!
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Aaron D'Zurilla
Theorist/TCC Founder
He/Him
Aaron D'Zurilla is the primary host and founder of the Theorist Composer Collaboration. With diverse research interests in both modern classical composition and rap, Aaron has presented work at the 2025 Indiana University Symposium of Research in Music, with a paper titled: “Guess Who’s Back: Narrative Subversions in The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)". In a currently forthcoming presentation, Aaron will also present at the 2025 Analytical Approaches to World Musics Symposium on the Music Theories, Histories, Analysis, and the Musical Cultures of Asia, with a paper titled: "International and Personal Tragedy in "A Vietnamese Mother’s Letter to Nixon" (2023)". Aaron also has a forthcoming publication through SMT-Pod, titled: "Trauma and Vocal Timbre in Ellen Reid’s p r i s m (2019)"
Aaron holds a Bachelor's of Music in Music Theory from the University of Florida and a Master's of Music in Music Theory from Florida State University.
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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… Read More
