Ingrid Arauco’s music “opens virtuosity to an inspection that reveals wit, passion, and deep aspiration” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Arauco’s principal teachers were Robert Hall Lewis at Goucher College, and George Crumb, George Rochberg, Richard Wernick, and C. Jane Wilkinson at the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is currently Ruth Marshall Magill Professor at Haverford College.
She has received awards or fellowships from the American Guild of Organists, Yaddo, and MacDowell, and commissions from the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and the Kindler Foundation in the Library of Congress.
Her music has recently been performed by the Jasper String Quartet, the wind sextet Bandwidth, the Lang-Rainwater Project, and the saxophone-piano duo of Jonathan Hulting-Cohen and Jiayan Sun. Arauco’s Fantasy-Prelude and Variations was recently featured at the biennial convention of the North American Saxophone Alliance, and her Sextet was released by Neuma Records. Other performers include the Ying, Momenta and Colorado Quartets, Network for New Music, Third Sound, and the Atlanta Symphony. Arauco’s music has been featured at Oundle International Organ Week, Festival “Compositores de Hoje” in Rio de Janeiro, and the Festival de Música Contemporánea de La Habana, to which she travelled as part of an artist delegation sponsored by the American Composers Forum.
Arauco’s solo albums include Invocation, Vistas, and Resonances (Albany). Other recordings featuring her music include Second Flight and Heard in Havana on Innova Recordings, Millennium Crossings and New Music for Oboe on Capstone Records, Excursions and Florescence on Meyer Media, Where Songs Go at Night on Neuma Records, and a forthcoming release on the Centaur label.
While at MacDowell in 2016, Arauco completed three movements of String Quartet #3 for the Amernet String Quartet. She would continue work on this piece as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. In 2018, she completed Sonata con Serenata for guitarist Jordan Dodson.
During her 2024 residency, she worked on Awakenings for the chamber ensemble Third Sound.
