Erika Cristina Vega Gonzalez

Degrees  
Course

DPhil Music

College St John’s College
Address

St John’s College, St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JP

Composition, Interdisciplinarity, Multimedia, Musico-Linguistic studies and Semiotics.  

Innovative musical responses to literary texts in compositions by Boulez, Revueltas and Ablinger: my research focuses on analysing examples in which text and music are structurally integrated without relying on conventional procedures of music representation.

 

Selected works:

 

Orchestra

 

No oyes ladrar a los perros (2020-2021)

For orchestra and organ

Commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic

 

 

Chamber

 

La Coyotada (2021)

For ensemble

Commissioned by CEPROMUSIC Ensemble

 

 

Queen Alice (2020)

For cello, soprano, and flute

Written for the Trio Atem

Finalist at ​The Henfrey Prize for Composition 2021

 

 

B L A N C O  (2019)

For voice and piano

Written for Sarah Mariah Sun

Commissioned by Festival Vértice UNAM

 

 

 

 

Ceci n’est pas un duo (2019)

For violin and piano

Winner of The Henfrey Prize for Composition 2019   

     

 

Four darks in red (2018)
For trombone, percussion and contrabass

Written for Elision ensemble

Commissioned by Festival Vértice UNAM

 

 

Icebergs Breaking Under Cloudy Skies (2017)

For sinfonietta
Premiered by Wild Up Ensemble at the Walt Disney Concert Hall​ 

 

 

Federico García Lorca hasta ayer se llamó: polvo se llama (2016)

For ensemble

Premiered by The Curious Chamber Players
Finalist at the Bludenzer tage zeitgemäßer musik

Solo works

 

KLANGVEJE a musical hike throughout Denmark (2019)

For solo guitar

Commissioned by Frederik Munk Larsen

Clarendon scholarship & St John's College

Subjects Taught