Biography

Ana Paola has written for all genres of contemporary music from orchestral to chamber, chorus, solo instruments, electronic, video and installation. She has been performed by such conductors, soloists and ensembles as Steven Schick, Guillaume Bourgogne, Alan Pierson, Gail Archer, Andy Costello, Duo Sonoris, Duo Harpverk, The Het Trio, The Enso String Quartet, Invoke String Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, Speculuum Musicae, Cepromusic Ensemble, the New York New Music Ensemble, McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble, Mexico’s National Symphony Orchestra, OFUNAM Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bellas Artes Chamber Orchestra, the Woodlands Symphony and the Shepherd School Chamber orchestra, among others.

Some of her honors include first prize at the interdisciplinary competition “Spectacle des architectes et compositeurs” (Fontainebleau, France); winner of the Paul Cooper Prize in Composition 2008 (Rice University); Resident Composer at the Mizzou International Composers Ferstival; 2nd prize in the Josef Dorfman Memorial International Composition Prize 2007 (Michelstadt, Germany); she earned the 2010 National Commission for Youth Orchestras (Mexico, Conaculta); the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme; Resident Composer at Mizzou International Composers Festival, Resident Composer at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and works at several of the annual Foro Internacional de Musica Nueva Manuel Enriquez in Mexico City. Her piece NEMESIS, for orchestra, was selected to represent Mexico at the UNESCO 57th International Rostrum of Composers in Lisbon, Portugal. NEMESIS was also performed by the National Symphony Orchestra at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. Her piece “Fractum” for flute, bass clarinet & piano is published by ALEA PUBLISHING & RECORDING and can be found in music libraries at Yale University, UCLA and University of Iowa. Most recently, her work “Oneirophrenia”, for video+electronics, was selected to be presented at several different concerts, such as: The NEW YORK CITY ELCTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL (NYCEMF); IMAGEN Y RESONANCIA concert series at Mar del Plata, Argentina; the ELECTRONIC MIDWEST MUSIC FESTIVAL at Lewis University, U.S.A.; the CIRCUIT BRIDGES concert series at Gallery MC in Manhattan, New York City; the N_SEME at the University of Oklahoma; the 27th Biannual International Electroacoustic Festival at Brooklyn College of CUNY, NY; the HERTZ NIGHT at the Espace Cercle Carré, Montreal, Quebec; the 2016 MUSINFO Art & Science Days in Bourges, France; the G. F. Ghedini” State Conservatory of Cuneo, Italy; ECHOFLUXX 17 in Prague, Czech Republic and at the 2018 Sonorities Festival Belfast, UK.

Ana Paola took part in the 2016 MANIFESTE festival at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), in Paris, France. Likewise, she has been a composition fellow at the Brevard Music Center (U.S.A.), the Czech American Summer Music Institute (Czech Republic), the Internationale Sommer MusikaKademie (Germany), the Fontainebleau Conservatory (France) and the Canadian Contemporary Music Workshop (Canada). She has recieved grants and fellowships such as the FULBRIGHT Scholarship; the Mary Ellen Hale Lovett Fellowship from Rice University; the Program for Foreign Studies Scholarship by the National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA, Mexico); the Graduate Excellence Fellowship, the Provost Fellowship and the Herbert A. Morse Memorial Scholarship from McGill University.

Ana Paola studied her doctoral degree in music composition (DMus), under the supervision of John Rea, at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, in Montreal, Canada. Simultaneously, she also experimented with electronic mediums at the McGill Digital Composition Studios, studying with Philippe Leroux. She enjoys exploring Multimedia and Visual Arts elements, adopting abstract and/or narrative components in order to combine electronic music with video.

She holds the Master of Music degree, graduating Magna Cum Laude, from Rice University and received her LTCL Licentiate in music composition, with distinction, from Trinity College London. Her main composition teachers have been: Gerardo Taméz, Alejandro Velasco, Vincent Carver, Arthur Gottschalk and John Rea.

Her music scores are showcased and distributed at BabelScores, a digital library based in Paris, France, devoted to the promotion of contemporary music.