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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.
“After the intermission, the Philharmonic and Joshua Roman played the world premiere of Rise, a cello concertino by the Philharmonic Composer in Residence Reinaldo Moya, who introduced the piece via video from Spain. Rise was composed by Moya to honor the memory of his brother Manuel who died in 2022. It is beautiful and elegiac, expressing shock, grief, and anger through Roman's cello part in counterpoint to the rest of the orchestra. The denouement of Rise reflects a walking through and rejoining the flow and rhythm of the world according to Moya.”
— from review of Rise: Third Coast Review (January 17, 2023)
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