A collection of online print, radio, and video interviews and articles, starting with the most recent
YouTube Interviews
Follow this link to Arlene Sierra's most recent video interviews
Chicago Tribune – Daily Southtown
A print interview ahead of the Chicago premiere of Arlene Sierra's Kiskadee
Resonance RM
A radio interview following the New Music Biennial revival of Arlene Sierra's Urban Birds
Utah Symphony
A short video discussing the world premiere Arlene Sierra's Bird Symphony
The Classical Review
An interview discussing Arlene Sierra's Bird Symphony, commissioned as part of her role as Utah Symphony Composer in Association
Ghost Light Podcast
An extended interview discussing Arlene Sierra's role as Utah Symphony Composer in Association
Meet the Artist
An interview to follow the release of the portrait disc Butterflies Remember A Mountain: Arlene Sierra, Vol. 3
New York Theatre Wire / News Blaze
An article about Arlene Sierra's music for dance and continuing collaboration with choreographer Susan Vencl
Illuminate Women's Music
An article exploring piano music of Arlene Sierra: Birds and Insects, Books 1 and 2
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Classical Music Magazine
An interview about Arlene Sierra's new BBC Radio 3 commission "Nature Symphony", written for the BBC Philharmonic
Boston Symphony Podcast
Arlene Sierra discusses her work Moler with interviewer Brian Bell, ahead of the BSO's subscription performances of the piece with Andris Nelsons
Boston Symphony Biographical Sketch
Biographical Sketch of Arlene Sierra by BSO staff writer Robert Kirzinger
Natural Light
Unflinching Depictions of Nature - A conversation with Arlene Sierra, to preview the BBC Proms performance of Butterflies Remember a Mountain
New Music Biennial
BBC Radio Wales Arts Show
Sierra joins the Radio Wales Arts Show to talk about the composition and world premiere of her New Music Biennial commission Urban Birds
Color and Rhythmic Dexterity: Interview with Arlene Sierra
An interview from the Italian music site, Nomos Alpha, part of a series on American composers
Afternoon on Three, BBC Radio Three
A radio interview with the composer, part of a feature on the BBC National Orchestra of Wales on Radio Three. The interview precedes a preview broadcast of the title piece from the new orchestral disc Game of Attrition - Arlene Sierra, Vol. 2
I Care if You Listen Magazine
Conversation with Arlene Sierra by Xenia Pestova
Fanfare
Composer Arlene Sierra: Process, Strategy, Evolution by Robert Schulslaper, Fanfare
Click here to read this extended interview prompted by the release of the disc "Arlene Sierra, Vol. 1"
CompositionToday
An online interview for the British new music site CompositionToday
Oberlin Conservatory Magazine
Making It New, a feature on Oberlin alumni composers including Arlene Sierra
WNYC Spotlight on: Arlene Sierra
A radio interview program about the composer’s music, background and process, including complete performance recordings of works Aquilo, Truel 1, Oda a la lagartija from Neruda Settings, Titmouse from Birds and Insects: Book 1,and Cicada Shell.
Hosted by David Garland, the show was first aired on 16 December 2006 as part of WNYC's Evening Music on New York Public Radio. It was subsequently rebroadcast on 31 May 2007 as part of the WNYC American Music Festival.