Piano Quartets

Menu

Quartets


First name: Roberto
Last name: Sierra
Dates: 1953
Category: Quartet
Nationality: American
Opus name: Kandinsky (2004)
Publisher:
Peculiarities: www.sheetmusicplus.com http://www.tfront.com/p-212773-kandinsky-for-violin-viola-cello-and-piano.aspx#212773
Information: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roberto Sierra (born 9 October 1953 in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico) is a composer of contemporary classical music. Sierra studied composition in Europe, notably with György Ligeti in Hamburg, Germany. After his two-act opera El mensajero de plata, to a libretto by Myrna Casas, had premiered at the Interamerican Festival in San Juan on 9 October 1986, Sierra came to prominence in 1987 when his first major orchestral composition, Júbilo, was performed at Carnegie Hall by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. On February 2, 2006 Sierra's Missa Latina, premiered at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C., conducted by Leonard Slatkin to considerable acclaim. On March 3, 2007, the Missa Latina was performed at the 51st Casals Festival in Sierra's homeland, Puerto Rico, where it was equally well received. Sierra's Concierto Barroco takes its inspiration from a scene in Alejo Carpentier's novel of the same in which Handel and Vivaldi jam with a Cuban slave during the Venice Carnival. Sierra was commissioned by guitarist Manuel Barrueco to write a concerto that tried to capture what that might have been like. Eladio Scharron commented on Soundboard: "Sierra achieved - masterfully - a synthesis of a tradition of five centuries old... This work is truly a masterwork..." Sierra is a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he teaches composition. His notable students include Marc Mellits.