Title: Ausencias / ausências / absences
Commission: 2015
Completed: 2016
Instrumentation: string quartet
Premiere Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Premiere Ensemble: JACK Quartet
Notes:

Carolina Heredia’s music aims to blend her musical experiences in the fields of western classical and Argentinean folk and tango. Her music has been performed in South America and the United States by esteemed groups such as the JACK quartet, University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Cordoba State String Orchestra and Cordoba Metropolitan Orchestra. In Fall 2016 the University of Michigan Chamber Choir will premiere her piece Virginia under the baton of maestro Jerry Blackstone. In Winter 2016, the JACK quartet will premiere her dissertation, a piece for string quartet and electronics.

In the summer of 2015 she was a fellow at the Susan and Ford Schumman Center for Composition Studies at Aspen Music Festival and School where she studied with Steven Stucky and George Tsontakis. She is the recipient of the Brehm Prize in Choral Composition 2015, the University of Michigan International Research Grant 2015, the Margaret Dow Towsley Scholarship 2012, the Merit-Scholarship of the University of Michigan 2011 and the Dorothy Greenwald Scholarship 2011.