Stephanie Valadez is a dual-national musician and scholar based in California and Mexico City. She is currently a PhD student in Ethnomusicology at UCLA, serves as the University of California Graduate and Professional Student Council, is the Executive Director of Xicameri Productions, and maintains a private teaching studio. Valadez holds a Master of Arts in Music (Cross-Cultural Musicology) from the University of California, Santa Cruz and two Masters of Music degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in Music Composition and Music Performance: Marimba. In her spare time, she enjoys creating children’s books in Nahuatl for her two sons as part of her commitment to decolonial parenting practices.

Mrs. Valadez has twenty years of professional experience.  Some of her performances have included appearing as the Showcase Artist for the Zeltsman Marimba Festival, Reich's Drumming with Steve Schick and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and Cage's Branches and Inlets for the opening of the SF Symphony's SF SoundBox under the artistic direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.  She currently teaches privately and maintains a full studio of marimba, piano, and ukulele students. Mrs. Valadez is an Education Artist for MarimbaOne and enjoys performing on her Izzy marimba.

"[Stephanie Valadez's music] emerged as the interplay among significantly different sonorities... The result was imaginative and well worth an opportunity for subsequent listening."
​-The San Francisco Examiner