Carla Lucero has been awarded a 2022 - 2023 Women Composer's Commissioning Grant from OPERA America for her opera-in-progress, TOUCH, with Opera Birmingham. TOUCH will premiere in 2024. (Marianna Mott Newirth, co-librettist.)

https://www.operaamerica.org/r/repertoire-productions/8867/opera-america-awards-100000-to-support-opera

Navona Records releases Piano Spectrums, a compilation of solo piano works including pieces from my first opera, WUORNOS!    

The collection of pieces is brilliantly interpreted by Anna Kislitsyna, who will perform my work and the work of nine other composers at Carnegie Hall on June 24, 2022.  

To learn more about this recording please click this link:  https://bit.ly/PIANOSPECTRUMS    

For tickets to attend the Carnegie Hall performance in June, please click here:  https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2022/06/24/Anna-Kislitsyna-Piano-0800PM

The Everywhere of Her - an educational music drama with book and lyrics by Velina Hasu Houston and music by Carla Lucero, was commissioned and produced by The Ebell of Los Angeles and premiered March 2023 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre. 

https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/news/2023/03/21/new-musical-at-the-ebell-spotlights-3pioneering-women-from-la-history?cid=id-app15_m-share_s-web_cmp-app_launch_august2020_c-producer_posts_po-organic#?cid=share_email