Erick Tapia

He completed his composition studies at the Faculty of Music of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he studied with Gabriela Ortiz and Francisco Cortés-Álvarez.

In 2019, he was a scholarship holder of the Cátedra Extraordinaria Arturo Márquez at UNAM, where he studied for a year with the renowned Mexican composer. In 2020, he was also selected for the Young Creators program of Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA).

He has received multiple awards, including first prize at the First National Composition Competition for Symphony Orchestra #EstarMejor (2020), organized by the School of Fine Arts of Universidad Panamericana; first prize at the 2021–2022 Emerging Composers Fellowship (Concertia, Houston, Texas, USA); and third prize at the Raíces Orchestra Competition (2021), organized by the Secretary of Culture of Jalisco and the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2021, he became the first Mexican student selected by the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing to have a work performed at the International Forum of the Alliance for Music Education (CCOM).

His music has been performed by soloists and ensembles in Mexico, the United States, Costa Rica, Colombia, China, and Finland, and by major Mexican ensembles such as the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Eduardo Mata Youth Orchestra of UNAM.