CAVERO, Pamela

Pamela Carolina Cavero Zapata is a Peruvian composer, orchestrator and pianist born in Lima. Her work encompasses contemporary concert music, film scoring and interdisciplinary projects involving dance, poetry and visual art. She holds an MFA in Music Composition for the Screen from Columbia College Chicago. Cavero is also a co-founder of RETAMA, the first Peruvian collective dedicated to women composers of contemporary music. Her compositions include Los Dioses de la Costa Peruana, Ocean Surrealism, Quirpón, Wiñaypacha, Beyond Her Dreams and Liberar. She has additionally composed music for short films and documentaries, including Cuando tenía diez años.