With a career spanning over three decades, American composer Roberto Sierra’s music has been commissioned and performed internationally, and has become established in the repertoire of many of the world’s leading orchestras, ensembles and festivals. Recently, in December 2017, Sierra was awarded the Tomás Luis de Victoria Prize — Spain’s most prominent music prize given to a Spanish or Latin American composer. Sierra’s large, wide-ranging catalog includes works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, band/wind ensemble, solo instruments, keyboard, voice, and chorus. His orchestral works have been performed by the orchestras of: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, New Mexico, Houston, Minnesota, Dallas, Detroit, San Antonio, Milwaukee and Phoenix, as well as by the American Composers Orchestra, both the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonic ensembles, the National Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich, and the Spanish orchestras of Madrid, Galicia, Castilla y León and Barcelona, among others. During the 2002 opening concert of the BBC Proms, the composer’s ever-popular work Fandangos was performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and was broadcast via BBC Radio and Television throughout the UK and Europe. Sierra’s many champions include conductors Leonard Slatkin, Andreas Delfs, Giancarlo Guerrero, Ian Hobson, and Mark Scatterday. His music has been recorded by Naxos, EMI, EmArcy (Universal Music Group), New World Records, Albany Records, Koch, New Albion, BMG, Fleur de Son, and on other labels. Sierra has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Milwaukee, Puerto Rico and New Mexico Symphonies and at The Philadelphia Orchestra. He was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Music. Sierra was also elected into the membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Born in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico (USA), Sierra studied composition in both Puerto Rico and Europe. He attended the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg, Germany, where he worked in the studio of György Ligeti. Roberto Sierra serves on the composition faculty of Cornell University's Department of Music, where he sits as Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities. His music is principally published by Subito Music Corporation (ASCAP)