Draft:Mari Esabel Valverde

Mari Esabel Valverde (b. 1987) is a Transgender Mexican-American classical composer, educator, and singer.

Born and raised in North Texas, Valverde is best known for her choral, chamber, and vocal compositions. She holds degrees from St. Olaf College (B.M.), the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (M.M.), and the European American Musical Alliance in Paris, France.

Choral

 * Earth, Mother (2024)
 * Look Down, Fair Moon (2023)
 * When I Open Myself (2023)
 * A Green Voice (2023)
 * Patterns on the Snow (2022)
 * De colores (Made in Color) (2022)
 * De colores (Made in Color) (2022)
 * Before Spring (2022)
 * We Hold Your Names Sacred (2021)
 * We Hold Your Names Sacred (2021)
 * We Hold Your Names Sacred (2021)
 * Comfort and Joy (2021)
 * Skin (2020)
 * When the Dust Settles (2019)
 * Imagine (2018)
 * Winter Ride (2018)
 * Wondrous Glow (2018)
 * Serenade italienne (Italian Serenade) (2018)
 * When Thunder Comes (2017)
 * Border Lines (2017)
 * United in Song: An anthem fro Our Time (2017)
 * Crossing (2017)
 * I flow... I am (2016)
 * Patterns on the Snow (2016)
 * When Thunder Comes (2016)
 * Of More Heroic Temper (2016)
 * Our Phoenix (2015)
 * Look Down, Fair Moon (2015)
 * Les Papillions (2015)
 * Le Colibri (2015)
 * Du bist wie eine Blume (2014)
 * The Cloths of Heaven (2014)
 * Cantares (2013)
 * En la noche entraremos (2013)
 * Hebe (2013)
 * Hold the Vision to Our Hearts (2013)
 * Oracle of Spring (2012)
 * Prayer of St. Francis (2011)
 * Manskenskvall (2011)
 * Hjartat (2011)
 * When You Are Old and Gray and Full of Sleep (2010)
 * The Cloths of Heaven (2009)
 * Darest, O Soul (2009)
 * Still wie die Nacht (2009)
 * Best Wishes (2006)
 * Apres un reve (2005)

Chamber

 * Prelude en la bemol majeur (2015)
 * Passaros (2012)
 * Moonlight Quartet (2012)
 * David: A Prison of Gender (2010)
 * Marche des Pirates (2009)
 * ses yeux etaient dans les etoiles (2009)
 * Auld Lang Syne (2008)
 * Man in the Top Hat (2008)
 * Recordacao de um sonho (2007)

Orchestral

 * La Danse de Puck (2011)
 * her first snow (2008)

Vocal

 * Quero (2024)
 * Conciones del pasado (2019)
 * The Lady and the Tiger (2016)
 * Cuatro poemas de Octavio Paz (2012)
 * The Soul Selects Her Own Society (2011)
 * To digte af Tove Ditlevsen (2010)
 * Then of Thy Beauty (2009)
 * After Sunset (2008'
 * Love Alters Not (2008)
 * How Do I Love Thee? (2007)
 * Poet's Entreaty (2007)