Born in Buenos Aires in 1962, Carmen Baliero is at the same time a composer and performer of experimental and popular music. She is a renowned composer for film and theater, a discipline that she has developed actively since 1990, having written more than 20 works. She has taught classes in composition, music for theater, and the use of voice in theater, for more than two decades. She has also led workshops across Argentina and Latin America.Her theater works include La Srta. Julia, by Strinberg, directed by Cristina Banegas (2016), Esplendor directed by Gustavo Tarrío (2015), Cómo vuelvo directed by Diego Lerman (2015), Molly Bloom, from James Joyce’s Ulysses, directed by Carmen Baliero and performed by Cristina Banegas (2012 ), Yo en el futuro, directed by Federico León (2009), Quién le teme a Virginia Wolf, directed by Luciano Suardi (2006), El niño argentino, directed by Mauricio Kartún (2006), La malasangre, by Griselda Gambaro, directed by Laura Yusem (2005), Mil quinientos metros sobre el nivel de Jack, by Federico León (1999), El pecado que no se puede nombrar, directed by Ricardo Bartis (1998). She has also composed original music for film and dance. She was awarded the prizes Florencio Sánchez and Trinidad Guevara for the music of El niño argentino, directed by Mauricio Kartún (2007). She was awarded the ACE prize for the music of Quién le teme a Virginia Woolf directed by Luciano Suardi (2006). As a composer and performer she has participated in series and concerts at the Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, AR), Teatro Parakultural (Buenos Aires, AR), Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires, AR), Festival Internacional de Teatro de Buenos Aires (AR), Festival Internacional del Mercosur (Cordoba, AR), Teatro Margarita Xirgu (Buenos Aires, AR), Teatro General San Martín (Buenos Aires, AR), Buenos Aires en Porto Alegre Festival (Porto Allegre, Brazil) among many others. In 2019, she presented her piece Pianos (for live and prerecorded pianos) at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.Her discography includes, among others, Carmen Baliero Varieté (1992), Carmen Baliero (2000), Ultimo momento II – Máquinas (2001), Dame Más (2004), Te Mataría (2007), Centécimas del Alma – based on a text by Violeta Parra (2015) and Lentamente (2021). She is the author of the book Música para teatro y otros temas, commissioned by the Instituto Nacional de Teatro (2016) and La enseñanza musical y otros temas (2021).