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Reinaldo Moya
A 2026 Guggenheim Fellow and composer whose music explores identity, memory, and migration. From his early training in Venezuela's El Sistema to performances at Carnegie Hall, Severance Hall, and the Kennedy Center, his work bridges classical tradition with the rhythms and complexity of modern Latin America.
Reinaldo Moya's music moves between the vernacular rhythms of Latin America and the formal structures of classical music, treating both as a living language. This mix is not neutral: the music is forever searching for the right language for each occasion, reaching from the sublime to the mundane, the beautiful to the ugly. Underneath it all there is something quieter: a persistent grief, and a longing for a Venezuela that exists now only in memory.
“The concert’s high point was the premiere of Reinaldo Moya’s “2 Canciones de Alfonsina Storni,” a pair of pieces that possessed a deeply engaging and complex blend of emotions.
They were summoned forth chiefly by mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski, the festival’s founder, who soloed on four of the concert’s seven works. The Moya songs were an ideal showcase for Osowski’s interpretive skills, each phrase beautifully crafted, particularly when the music was most gentle and earnest. Pianist Casey Rafn was equally expressive.”
— from review of Dos Canciones de Alfonsina Storni: The Star Tribune (August 6, 2024)
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