Arlene Sierra

Her music noted for its “highly flexible and distinctive style” (The Guardian), ranging from “exquisiteness and restrained power” to “combative and utterly compelling” (Gramophone), Arlene Sierra is widely regarded as one of today’s most original composers. Recent premieres include Nature Symphony “memorable for its creation of wonderful sounds from a large orchestra” (Bachtrack.com) commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the BBC Philharmonic, Dalia from Cuatro Corridos, a monodrama for soprano Susan Narucki which toured the U.S. and Mexico and was broadcast on Mexican television, and Urban Birds commissioned by the PRS New Music Biennale for a U.K. tour including the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Sierra has composed works for the New York Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, International Contemporary Ensemble, the Bremen Philharmonic Society, the Carducci Quartet, Lontano, Psappha, the Albany Symphony, and the Seattle Symphony. Declared “a name to watch” by BBC Music Magazine, she is the subject of a series of portrait recordings by the prestigious Bridge Records label. Sierra's orchestral showpiece Moler was nominated for a Latin GRAMMY for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.