Verónica Tapia-Carreto (born January 12, 1962) is a Mexican composer, long resident in Canada. A native of Puebla, Puebla, Tapia was educated at the Taller de Composición of and at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música. Later she attended the Johns Hopkins University. At the

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her supervisor was Nicola LeFanu; she received her master's degree there in 1996. In 2006 she was awarded a doctoral degree by the University of Calgary, at which she later taught. She has since joined the faculty of the conservatory at Mount Royal University. She has composed

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and works for children, as well as for orchestra; she has also written electroacoustic and computer music.

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