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Lucrecia Ugena is a singer,
 composer
 and
 teacher
 born
 in
 Buenos
 Aires,
 Argentina (1983)
. She is currently
 engaged
 in
 song
 writing,
 contemporary
 and
 electroacoustic
 music
 and
 improvisation.
 Lucrecia
 began 
her
 studies 
in 
music 
composition 
at 
Alberto 
Ginastera
 School
 of 
Music 
and 
continued
 them 
at 
the
 National 
University 
of 
Art
 (UNA)
.


Lucrecia Ugena

Photo: Pipy Lupindo

In
 January
 2011
 she
 participated
 of
 "Athena
 60x60
 Mix"
 US
 contest,
 focused
 on
 electroacoustic
 music
 composed
 by
 women.
 From
 composers
 worldwide
 she
 was 
selected 
for 
her 
electroacoustic
 work
 "Planta 
Lucrecia"
 among
 artists 
like 
Alex
 Shapiro,
 Pauline
 Oliveros, 
etc.


In
 late
 2011
 from
 more 
than 
600
 bands 
she
 was 
selected 
to 
record 
her 
solo
 album 
at 
“Proyecto 
Disco”-
contest 
by
 the
 Ministerio 
de 
Cultura
 de 
la 
ciudad
 de
 Buenos 
Aires.


In
 2012
 she
 won
 the
 scholarship
 from
 “Fondo
 Nacional
 de
 las
 Artes”
 for
 participating
 at
 the
 “Primer
 Encuentro
 Argentino
 de
 Improvisación
 y
 Composición”.



In 
2013
 she
 released 
her 
solo
 album 
“Lista
 para 
ir".
 Simultaneously, 
she
 is 
a 
member 
of 
“Ensamble 
Argentino 
de 
improvisadores”,
composed 
by 
a 
group 
of
 teachers
 such
 as 
Marcelo 
Moguillevsky, 
Oscar
 Edelstein, 
Ernesto 
Jodos 
and
 Nora
 Zarmoria.


In 2014,
 she begun
 to
 build
 her own
 synthesizers
. She has
 integrated
 the
 “Ensamble
 de
 música
 electroacústica”
 of
 the
 National
 University
 of
 Art
 (UNA)
 from 
Argentina, 
premiering 
pieces 
by 
prominent 
Argentinian
 composers.



In 
2014

 her
 works 
were 
premiered 
internationally 
in
 US
 and
 Mexico. 
During 
2015 
she
 is 
planning 
a 
European 
tour. 
She
 was 
selected
 by 
the 
International 
Festival
 SIRGA
 2015
 (Spain) 
to
 release 
the 
work 
HOW
 (composed 
in 
collaboration 
with
 Ezequie l
Esquenazi)
.