Estrella Cabildo is a Mexican composer from San Rafael, Veracruz, and a graduate of the Master’s in Music with a specialization in Composition from the Universidad Veracruzana, where she earned honors under the guidance of Dr. Emil Awad. Her music has been performed in Mexico, the United States, Canada, France, Brazil, Chile, among other countries.

In 2023, she received the Arturo Márquez Extraordinary Chair of Musical Composition, which led to the creation of Perenne Mar for symphony orchestra, premiered by the Orquesta Juvenil Universitaria Eduardo Mata. In 2024, this work was programmed at the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez and performed by the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional. Later, it was selected for the EarShot Readings in Canada, where it was presented by the National Arts Centre Orchestra in an event organized by the American Composers Orchestra.

That same year, she participated in the France Summer Music YXIE in France, premiering new compositions, and was included in the Permanent Program for the Strengthening of Young Composers by CEPROMUSIC 2024.

Throughout her career, she has been a recipient of the Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y al Desarrollo Artístico (PECDA) in two states: Veracruz (2024) with her project Xantolo: Sinfonía de Cámara, and Puebla (2021 and 2019), with works such as Ballet para Ensamble de Cámara: Popocatépetl e Iztaccíhuatl and Bolero Mexicano for chamber orchestra. Additionally, her piece Ilusiones para Oboe was selected by CEPROMUSIC.