arlene elizabeth sierra
composer of orchestral, chamber, and vocal music
LATEST NEWS (see press and performances pages for more details):
Around the UK:
27 November, 1 & 7 December: Soprano Claire Booth and Pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen perform Hearing Things in recitals at Hull, Cardiff and Cheltenham.
NEW YORK:
17 December world premiere of New York Philharmonic commission Game of Attrition at Symphony Space, followed by a performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on 19 December.
This is high-energy music, turbulent and vivacious; but Sierra is attentive to variations of pace and volume, relatively serene passages juxtaposed with more tumultuous writing, quieter moments with climaxes. It got a performance of precision and clarity of texture, which brought out the piece’s pleasing sense of structural completeness."
- Seen and Heard International, 2008
[With] darting, coloristic fragments... The music ebbed and flowed in intensity, reaching a peak... The marchlike rhythms of the first section are followed by a vivacious dialogue between instruments and an almost jazzy finale.
- The New York Times, 2009
Photo © Ian Phillips-McLaren
