Juan Andrés Vergara
About this Artist
Juan Andrés Vergara is a composer and producer from Mexico City who melds the contemporary classical, film, and pop worlds into immersive musical environments. Marked by also being a film composer and a guitarist, he explores the integration of electronics and instruments from unusual contexts with the orchestra, embracing technology in his compositional process. He calls his music “Nebular Music,” seeing it as diffuse pointillistic textures in harmony, currently focused in capturing audio effects like reverb, delay, and pitch processes on paper.
Vergara’s music has been programmed at the Open Source Music Festival in New York, the Manuel Enríquez International Forum in Mexico, Noon to Midnight at the LA Phil, the UNESCO International Tribune of Composers, and the Cervantino Festival. It has been recorded by the Morelia Symphony Orchestra, OFUNAM, Jeffrey Zeigler, Wild Up, Irvine Arditti, Jalisco Philharmonic, and the JACK, José White and Latinoamericano quartets.
Vergara is an authentic music fan, with a vast curiosity for many music areas and a commitment to evolving his personal language. His recent projects include scoring the music for the documentary Mai American, his orchestral piece Possibilities of a Structure with Puebla State Orchestra, his band Plano’s first album, and string quartet arrangements for Ed Maverick’s tour.
He completed a Master’s degree in composition at New York University and holds Bachelor’s degrees in music theory and composition from London College of Music and an undergraduate degree in contemporary concert composition from Mexico’s Centro de Investigación y Estudios de la Música, CIEM. He took part in the LA Philharmonic’s National Composers Intensive in 2017, so this is the second time his music will be programmed at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Vergara’s music has gained recognition at the Nuestra América composition competition, through performances by Alterity Co, Ciudad Sinfónica, the Red Note Festival, and CFIFF Australia. He has received praise from the Mexican film press and his score for the animated short film Felt Love was awarded Best Score at the Los Angeles Independent Short Film Awards and the Changing Face International Film Festival in Australia.