Carla Lucero is an American composer and librettist.

While at CalArts, she studied with composers Rand Steiger, Leonard Rosenman and Alan Chapman.

Her work is concentrated in opera, ballet and chamber music, and her compositional style has been described as complex, and highly melodic, drawing upon the Romantic and Neo-Classical periods, as well as from Flamenco music.

She is recognized for incorporating period instruments and indigenous percussion into her orchestration.

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