Biography
Estrella Cabildo is a Mexican composer from San Rafael, Veracruz. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Music with a specialization in Composition at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) under the guidance of Gabriela Ortiz, and she holds a Master’s degree in Music from the Universidad Veracruzana, where she graduated with honors under the tutelage of Dr. Emil Awad. Her works have been performed in Mexico, the United States, Canada, France, Brazil, and Chile.
In 2025, she was commissioned by the National Institute of Fine Arts to compose Citlalhumi, a work for piano and chamber orchestra that will be featured at the Festival Internacional Cervantino, performed by the Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes. This work was also selected for the 2025 Festival Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez. That same year, she was invited by the Society of Authors and Composers of Mexico (SACM) to join the first generation of the Laboratorio de Creación de Músicas Tradicionales y de Concierto, a distinguished initiative led by Martín Urieta, Roberto Cantoral, and Arturo Márquez, focused on fostering new works that interweave concert music with Mexican musical traditions.
In 2023, she was selected for the Arturo Márquez Extraordinary Chair in Composition, where she composed Perenne Mar for symphony orchestra. The piece was premiered by the Orquesta Juvenil Universitaria Eduardo Mata and in 2024 was programmed at the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional. Later, it was chosen by the American Composers Orchestra for the EarShot Readings in Canada, presented by the National Arts Centre Orchestra. That same year, she was selected for the France Summer Music YXIE program, where she composed two premieres presented in Paris, and she also joined the Permanent Program for the Strengthening of Young Composers at CEPROMUSIC 2024, writing a newly commissioned work for the ensemble.
Throughout her career, she has also been a recipient of the Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y al Desarrollo Artístico(PECDA) in Veracruz (2024) and Puebla (2019 and 2021), with projects such as Xantolo: Sinfonía de Cámara, Ballet para Ensamble de Cámara: Popocatépetl e Iztaccíhuatl, and Bolero Mexicano.
Her music has been performed by ensembles such as the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México, National Arts Centre Orchestra (Canada), CEPROMUSIC, Orquesta Juvenil Universitaria Eduardo Mata, Orquesta Filarmónica de Acapulco, Orquesta Filarmónica de Aguascalientes, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, OSBUAP, among others.