ERIC ESTRADA VALADEZ
Composer

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Orchestral

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Sometimes so By Chance (2025) I 12 '

2-2-2-2-2-2-timp+2-celesta-harp-str

Premiered at University of Houston Dudley Hall by the Moores School of Music Orchestra

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Call it Intuition (2024) I 10 '

2-2-2-2-4-2-3-1-timp+2-str

Premiered at the "Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez" by the Puebla State Symphony​

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Héptada (2021) I 12 '

3-3-3-3-4-3-3-1-timp+3-hp,pf-str

Awarded the second prize of the International Composers Competition the New Symphony Vienna on 2020

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Paráfrasis Urbana (2019) I 12 '

 

1-1-1-1-2-2-1-0-timp+2-pf-str

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Awarded the Arturo Márquez composition prize on 2019

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Suite Grotesca (2018) I 9 '

 

​string orchestra

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Awarded the second prize of the Joaquin Gutiérrez Heras Composition Competition on 2017

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Large Ensemble

 

Call it Intuition (2024) I 10 '

flute, clarinet, percussion, and string quintet

For Aura Contemporary Ensemble

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Overture 2024: Former Present Today (2024) I 10 '

flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, percussion, violin and double bass

Commissioned by the Musiqa, the Blaffer Museum and the Cynthia Woods Mitchel Center for the Arts

 

Dysphoria (2020) I 8 '

marimba and multipercusion (soloist), flute, saxophone (soprano/alto), percussion, piano, and string quintet.

Commissioned by the Young Creators program of the National Endowment for the Arts of Mexico.

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Chamber Ensemble

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Wooden Glass (2024) I 2 '

for percussion and soprano 

Written for AURA Contemporary Ensemble and the Cynthia Woods Mitchel Center for the Arts

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Murky Liquids (2024) I 3 '

for percussion, piano and soprano 

Written for AURA Contemporary Ensemble and the Cynthia Woods Mitchel Center for the Arts

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Action and Reaction (2024) I 4 '

for 4 instruments (open Instrumentation)

Written for AURA Contemporary Ensemble and the Cynthia Woods Mitchel Center for the Arts

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Spare Parts Spin (2024) I 5 '

for flute. clarinet, violin and cello

Commissioned by the Blaffer Museum and premiered by HUB new music. 

Winner of SOLI's 30x30x30 Composition Competition

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 Northampton's Little Chilango (2023) I 7 ' 

violin and piano 

commissioned by the KISA International Music Festival

Winner of the Arts Music Society Call for Scores

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Del silencio brota un árbol (2023)  I 8 ' 

flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano 

Commissioned by Musiqa

Runner up of the Black Bayou Composition Prize

Spare

Dysphoria II (2022)  I 8 '

piano and multi percussion

Commissioned by the Young Creators program of the National Endowment for the Arts of Mexico

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Perimeter breached (2022)  I 9 '

saxophone quartet

commissioned by the University of Houston Public Arts

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Crónica de un viaje chilango (2019) I 12 '

percussion quartet

Awarded the first prize of the National Composition Competition for Percussion Quartet Safa 2019

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About the importance of breathing (2019) I 7 '

violin and cello  

commissioned by the Bowdoin International Music Festival

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Penumbra (2021) I 7 '

oboe and piano 

commissioned by Carmen Thierry and Tere Frenk

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Solo

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Fibonacci's Revenge (2024) I 1 '

for soprano 

Written for AURA Contemporary Ensemble and the Cynthia Woods Mitchel Center for the Arts

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Hit and Stumble (2024) I 1 '

for percussion 

Written for AURA Contemporary Ensemble and the Cynthia Woods Mitchel Center for the Arts

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Brown Opal (2024) I  4 '

solo violin

Commissioned by the Texas New Music Festival

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Hékate (2023) I 8 '

solo piano 

for Katya Trejo Smith MacDonald

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El averno  (2016) I 6 '

solo piano 

for Resonacias

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Electroacustic

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Kiosk K 67: System for Urban Imagination  (2022) I 3 '

electronicsor 

commissioned by the Blaffer Museum and the University of Houston

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Memories of the subsoil  (2022) I 12 '

2 pianos, electronics and video

commissioned by the Cynthia Woods Mitchel Center for the Arts
min) Variations for piano (5min)