Lumina Ensemble is the project of four saxophonists

passionate about their instrument and contemporary music, who belong

to two generations and who join efforts to achieve

high-level musical performances.

Lumina refers to the light that continuously permeates

our land. Light that determines our open and

tolerant character, and that proposes the union of people who converge in a

common project. Light as an analogy of our way of understanding musical interpretation in its infinite forms, with proposals

committed to contemporary music. Essential therefore to achieve

this goal, is the collaboration with composers and the premiere of works

written or transcribed for this group.

This concert serves to present Lumina to the

public, although it should be noted that its members

have an important artistic and professional background that has led them

to perform in numerous concert halls, festivals and concert series.

Lumina Ensemble is a flexible group that is based on the

saxophonists Pablo de la Fuente, Javier Carrillos, Isaac Verdú and

José A. Suay. In this current meeting, it also includes Óscar

Martí (percussion) and Mercedes Lozano (organ). Zulema de la Cruz. Superior degree in Piano and Composition from the Royal Superior Conservatory of Music in Madrid, Master of Arts in Composition and Computer Music from Stanford University (California, USA) with John Chowning. Advanced Studies Diploma from SEK Universidad de Segovia. Doctor in Culture and Communication from the University of Madrid in 2015 with the Thesis "Research and Electroacoustic and Computer Composition Laboratory of the RCSMM.

Lumina Ensemble is the project of four saxophonists

passionate about their instrument and contemporary music, who belong

to two generations and who join efforts to achieve

high-level musical performances.

Lumina refers to the light that continuously permeates

our land. Light that determines our open and

tolerant character, and that proposes the union of people who converge in a

common project. Light as an analogy of our way of understanding musical interpretation in its infinite forms, with proposals

committed to contemporary music. Essential therefore to achieve

this goal, is the collaboration with composers and the premiere of works

written or transcribed for this group.

This concert serves to present Lumina to the

public, although it should be noted that its members

have an important artistic and professional background that has led them

to perform in numerous concert halls, festivals and concert series.

Lumina Ensemble is a flexible group that is based on the

saxophonists Pablo de la Fuente, Javier Carrillos, Isaac Verdú and

José A. Suay. In this current meeting, it also includes Óscar

Martí (percussion) and Mercedes Lozano (organ).

In her interpretive work, she is a member of the Foundation and the

Sax Ensemble group since 1993, as responsible for

electroacoustic media.

With this group she achieved the National Music Prize in

performance in 1997. Award winner in numerous composition competitions, advisor and jury member of multiple institutions. Her works, commissioned by various entities, have been performed in Europe, USA, Canada, South America, Japan, China and Australia. Her catalog includes all types of formations from solo instruments, chamber, electroacoustic, multimedia, concerts with soloists,

symphonic, symphonic choral, vocal and scenic music.

She has collaborated since 2015 with UNIR (International University

of La Rioja) as a member of the evaluation committees for

Master projects (TFM) and in the Direction and Coordination of the

Master's in Musical Composition with New Technologies, and with

UPV (Polytechnic University of Valencia) as a collaborator of its Soundcool research group, directing and being a member of the evaluation of doctoral theses in the Doctorate in Music.

Since 1988 she has developed her teaching and research work as

Professor of Electroacoustic Composition in the Research and Electroacoustic and Computer Composition Laboratory (LICEO) of the Royal Superior Conservatory of Music in Madrid, carrying out its design, maintenance and cataloging of its productions.