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With a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Composition from UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Eric’s work has been featured in México, Canada, USA, and Germany. In the last few years, he has earned the Arturo Márquez Composition Award (2019), the International Composers Competition New Symphony Vienna (2020), and the National Composition Competition for Percussion Quartet SAFA (2019), for his composition work. Eric has been the recipient of the Young Creators Program of the Fine Arts Institute of Mexico (2021), and the Graduate Scholarship of UNAM (2018) grants. In his works, Eric blends different music genres, such as rock, jazz and latino music, with contemporary composition, and explores the relationship between language, cultural identity, and music. Recently he was awarded Musiqa’s Emergent Composers Fellowship (2022) and the Cynthia Woods Mitchel Center for the Arts Fellowship (2022), which include commissions of new pieces to be premiered in 2023 at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Baffler Gallery in Houston. He is currently pursuing a doctorate degree at the University of Houston Moores School of Music under the tenure of Dr. Rob Smith.

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