ARLENE SIERRA - USA
BORN 1 JUNE
An American composer based in London, Arlene Sierra writes music that takes its impetus from rich sources including military strategy, game theory, Darwinian evolution, and the natural world. Her music has been lauded for its “highly flexible and distinctive style” (The Guardian), and its “remarkable brilliance of color, rhythmic dexterity and playfulness” (NPR Classical). Declared “a name to watch” by BBC Music Magazine, Arlene Sierra is the subject of a critically-acclaimed series of portrait discs with Bridge Records. She has received fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the MacDowell Colony and the Tanglewood Music Festival, and has had portrait concerts at the Crush Room, Royal Opera House, London, the Yellow Barn Music Festival, Vermont and Columbia University’s Miller Theatre, New York. A Takemitsu Prize-winner and Latin GRAMMY nominee, Sierra has received commissions from BBC Radio 3 and the BBC Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Bremen Philharmonic Society, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Albany Symphony, the Cheltenham, Huddersfield and Tanglewood Music Festivals, and many ensembles and soloists. Performers of her work include the Tokyo Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Alabama Symphony, New York City Opera VOX, London Sinfonietta, International Contemporary Ensemble, Carducci Quartet, Österreichisches Ensemble für neue Musik, Lontano, Psappha, and the Benedetti-Elschenbroich-Grynyuk Trio at the BBC Proms.
Born in Miami to a family of New Yorkers, Arlene Sierra holds degrees from Oberlin College- Conservatory (BA, BMus), Yale School of Music (MMus) and the University of Michigan (DMA). Her principal teachers were Martin Bresnick, Michael Daugherty and Jacob Druckman; she worked with Betsy Jolas, Louis Andriessen, Magnus Lindberg, Colin Matthews and Judith Weir at various summer festivals. Dr Sierra is currently Reader in Composition and Deputy Head of School at Cardiff University School of Music.
ZHANNETA METADILLI - RUSSIA
BORN 1 JUNE
Zhannetta Metallidi is a renowned composer and teacher: she has developed comprehensive method of teaching music theory and composition for the initial period of music education. Composition and teaching are entwined in Zhannetta Metallidi?s life. Among her works one can find a variety of genres; she writes for chamber ensembles and symphonic orchestra, for choir and for young soloists, she composes cantatas and stage works, and all the abundance of her creativity is related to children.
Metallidi composes for orchestra, chamber ensemble and chorus. She is noted for children's music. Selected works include:
Tarakanishche (The cockroach), opera, 1992
Strana (Valyay forsi!) (The country (Swagger, Go Ahead)), musical, 1989
Siuita, 1975
Romances, song cycle, 1973
Smeyantsi, cantata for children's chorus, percussion, piano, 1981
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