She was born in Algeciras (Cádiz), in 1970. She was a Piano Accompanist Professor by competitive examination at the Superior Conservatory of Music in Málaga from 1990 to 2000, where she also taught Musical Acoustics and Organology for three years, and coordinated the Electroacoustic Music and Musical Informatics Laboratory for five years. She worked as an Associate Professor in the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the University of Málaga from 2000 to 2004, and held a Chair of Composition at the Superior Conservatory of Music in Málaga from 2005 to 2020. In the artistic field, and after a brief period of concert activity focused on chamber music, she devoted herself fully to composition, placing special emphasis on the human voice, new technologies, and the mixing of different arts.
She holds a Doctorate in Audiovisual Communication. She possesses Superior Degrees in Solfège, Piano, Chamber Music, and Composition, as well as an Elementary Degree in Oboe. She furthered her studies in Barcelona with Gabriel Brncic (Composition and Electroacoustic Music), Liliana Maffiotte (Piano), and Claudio Zulián (Analysis).
As a composer, she has received commissions from the CDMC, Radio Clásica, the Andalusian Regional Government, the UIMP, the Andalusian Parliament, the Galician Center for Contemporary Art, and the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art, in addition to numerous groups and soloists such as Esperanza Abad, Jean Pierre Dupuy, Trino Zurita, Fukio Ensemble, the Arbós Trio, the Zukan Trio, and the Neoars Ensemble. Among the orchestras that have performed her symphonic works are the Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra, the Bilbao Symphony, the Málaga Philharmonic, and the Córdoba Symphony. Her works have been disseminated in various International Cycles and Festivals, including the International Festival of Music and Electronic Creations in Bourges, the International Festival of Music and Dance in Granada, the Spanish Music Festival in Cádiz, the Aujourd´hui Musiques Festival in Perpignan, the Música Viva Festival in Portugal, the Electrovisiones Circuit in Mexico City, and the International Festival of Contemporary Music in Alicante.
To date, she has premiered 5 operas: Taxi (2002), Fonía (2004), Renacimiento (2006), metAMORfosis. Runway Opera (2021), and Bóveda. Planetarium Opera (2024), as well as 7 large-scale productions: 12 piedras. Ritual (2009), 12 sabores. Ritual (2016), Dancing holes (2016), Tarot (2019), Gurnarkurkarkar (2020), Y tú, ¿con qué sueñas? (2021), and 5 estados extremos (2023).
Among her publications, in addition to various book chapters and articles in specialized journals and several scores, is her doctoral thesis Communication and Culture, Between the Local and the Global: The Work of Paco de Lucía as a Case Study (in CD-ROM format) and the book Paco de Lucía. The Evolution of Flamenco Through His Rumbas.
She is currently a Professor of Composition at the Superior Conservatory of Music of Castilla y León (Salamanca). She is also a professor in the Master's Program in Musical Heritage at UNIA and resident composer of the Mediterranean Music Dissemination Center since 2013, regularly teaching seminars and workshops at universities, conservatories, and art centers in various countries since 2011.
This project was born with the aim of establishing a connection between contemporary composers dedicated to creating avant-garde art and the public interested in it. Contemporary art faces various challenges—undoubtedly numerous ones—with one of the most recurring being the lack of "understanding" with which the potential audience for contemporary art justifies their disinterest in artistic manifestations.Contemporary music is not exempt from all these conditions and, at the same time, it is not immune to possible solutions that help normalize current repertoire in the demands of music lovers and integrate it into the cultural programming of cities and concert halls.Undoubtedly, when a creator speaks about their work with the passion of the creative act and delves not only into their creative processes but also into their motivations and expressive needs, a greater connection with the public is achieved and the path toward acceptance of the work is cleared. It is the project of four saxophonists passionate about their instrument and contemporary music. The members of LUMINA Ensemble combine their efforts for the respectful and committed achievement of high-level musical performances. Lumina refers to the light that continuously permeates our land and shapes us as human beings. Light as a means of union between people who converge in a common project and as a metaphor for our way of understanding musical performance, with proposals through contemporary music.The ensemble's main objective is the dissemination of repertoire composed from the 21st century onwards. Essential to achieving this goal is collaboration with composers and the premiere of works written for this group, proposing the saxophone quartet as a unique instrument full of timbral and expressive resources at the service of new creation.Lumina's infinite curiosity about performative action has led them to perform in various concert halls, festivals and concert series both in Spain and in other countries in our region such as the ENSEMS festival (Valencia), the Contemporary Festival of Alicante (ADDA), Kuraia Festival (Bilbao), Contemporary Music Festival (Córdoba), Mostra Sonora (Sueca), International Organ Festival – FIOB (Benidorm), Concerts d´Advent (Alcoi) or their recent participation in the Organistic Festival of Salento (Lecce – Italy), Festival Due Mare (Gallipoli – Italy). They have a first recording titled Terra Lucis, and have participated in Mexican composer Samuel Cedillo's album for the Kairós record label.Lumina Ensemble is the dedicatee of numerous pieces by renowned authors such as Jesús Torres, Zulema de la Cruz, Eneko Vadillo, Sonia Megías, Oliva Carrión-Arteta, José del Valle, Iluminada Pérez, Ximo Cano, David Leal, Sara Blanco, José Vicente Fuentes Castilla, Diana P. Custodio, M. Eugenia Luc or Voro García.Lumina Ensemble is composed of: Pablo de la Fuente (soprano saxophone), Javier Carrillos (alto saxophone), Pablo Pardo (tenor saxophone) and José Antonio Suay (baritone saxophone).
