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 United States and Europe. At the prestigious opening concert of the 2002 world-renowned BBC Proms in London, his Fandangos was performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra for broadcast on both radio and TV throughout the UK and Europe. Many major American and European orchestras and international ensembles have commissioned and performed his music.

In 2021 Roberto Sierra was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2017 he was awarded the SGAE Tomás Luis de Victoria Prize, Spain’s highest honor for a composer of Spanish or Latin American origin. In 2010 he was elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003 he was awarded the Academy Award in Music by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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. The works of Roberto Sierra are published principally by Subito Music (ASCAP).

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