J.E.’s music has been featured by distinguished ensembles and organizations such as the Washington D.C. John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts, the Brazil National Orchestra, Apollo Chamber Players, Foundation for Modern Music, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Contemporary Museum of Art Houston, and in a wide variety of films, both in the United States and abroad (Slovakia, Mexico, U.K.). He holds his BM in Composition from the Moores School of Music, where he studied with Marcus Maroney. He is currently studying privately with Gregory Spears. J.E.’s work focuses on both traditional and multi-disciplinary mediums, and he has collaborated with directors, choreographers, and playwrights. His interest in incorporating his cultural heritage from both his native Tabasco, Mexico, and Houston, Texas led J.E. to create Concertia, a non-profit arts organization for social causes. Its mission statement reads: “To empower social causes through the prism of new music and multi-media art,” resonating with his goal as a composer to engage communities at large. Recent and upcoming projects include Xul, a narrative focusing on the 60 days J.E. spent in a deportation detention center in 2013, commissioned by the São Paulo Contemporary Composer’s Festival in collaboration with the Brazil National Orchestra, Voces Fantasmas, a work awarded the max grant for artistic individuals in Houston dedicated to people in immigrant facilities, excerpts of which were streamed by the Kennedy Center for the Arts, and premiering at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 2021.