Carla Lucero

Carla Lucero is an American composer/librettist. A native of Los Angeles, she studied with composers Leonard Rosenman, Morton Subotnik, Alan Chapman and Rand Stieger. She developed a highly melodic compositional style, drawing upon sources from Romantic and Neo-Classical music.

She has a B.F.A. in Music Composition from California Institute of the Arts, 1986.

San Francisco

• Wuornos (2001) An operatic adaptation of Aileen Wuornos' life
• Juana an opera-in-development, adapted from the historical novel Sor Juana's Second Dream written by Alicia Gaspar de Alba (co-librettist), and published in 1999 by University of New Mexico Press. Juana Inés de la Cruz

Los Angeles

• Collage Dance Theater: original compositions written for Most Wanted (presented in a city jail), LaBrea Man (a site-specific dance performance), Life in the Lap Lane, Out of Circulation and Liquid Assets.

• Lester Horton Outstanding Achievement in Dance Award, 1998
• Meet the Composer, 1999
• Advocate Magazine, "Best of Stage", 2001 Advocate 2001
• San Francisco Arts Commission, 2001, 2006
• California Arts Council, 2000
• Creative Work Fund, 2001 CWF Award
• Open Meadows Foundation, 2000, 2006
• Horizons Foundation, 2007
• Zellerbach Family Foundation, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007