Rocking S Art Ranch

The Rocking S Art Ranch welcomes four artist in residents this summer!

June 2025: José Eduardo Orea Domínguez, DMA

I am a Mexican composer, theorist, and clarinetist. I hold a degree in clarinet performance from the Instituto Superior de Música del Estado de Veracruz, a double degree in music theory and composition from the University of New Mexico (UNM), and a master’s degree with a focus on advanced theory and composition from UNM. I recently obtained my doctorate degree in Music Composition with Digital Media at Arizona State University.

My top earned awards include: first place within the National Competition of Musical Interpretation, (Mexico 2013). First prize in the contest “Young Composers” launched by the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra (Mexico 2019). First prize in the Scott Wilkinson Composition Competition (2021). First prize within the XI ECI Encuentro entre Compositores e Instrumentistas at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata in Argentina (2022). I was chosen as one of only eight Latin-American composers for the residence Germina.Cciones 2022 (Chile), where I wrote a piece for the renowned Mexican ensemble Trio Siqueiros. Most recently, I was awarded the Composer-in-Residence position at ASU Wind Symphony & Symphony Orchestra (2023-2024). My music has been played widely across Mexico and the United States, with an expansion to latitudes such as Chile, Argentina, and Spain.

I continue to work on developing theoretical-experimental research, which consists of the exploration of Machine Learning models for spatial audio distributions within VR/XR tridimensional score representations, as well as an experiment in perceptual/cognitive structures for semantic classification systems. One of my main goals is to shine light on the cognitive implications of multitemporal and non-linear musical trajectories.

July: Morgan Leigh, Devin Pope. August: Kristen Miologos. September, Sarah Reagan