Roberto Sierra

For more than four decades, the works of Grammy-nominated and Latin Grammy winner Roberto Sierra have been part of the repertoire of many of the leading orchestras, ensembles and festivals in the USA and Europe, including the orchestras of Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, as well as the American Composers Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich, the Spanish orchestras of Madrid, St. Lawrence String Quartet, and others. In 2021 Sierra was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2017 he was awarded the Tomás Luis de Victoria Prize, the highest honor given in Spain to a composer of Spanish or Latin American origin. His works may be heard on Naxos, EMI, IBS Classics, and other labels. Roberto Sierra was born in 1953 in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. He studied composition both in Puerto Rico and Europe, where one of his teachers was György Ligeti at the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg, Germany.