Bangor Symphony to premiere work by Reinaldo Moya in 2020-21

Composer Reinaldo Moya will write a new work to be performed by Maine’s Bangor Symphony Orchestra in the 2020-21 season. Moya received the commission after winning the inaugural $20,000 Composer Award from the Maine-based Ellis-Beauregard Foundation. Moya was selected through a juried national competition; the jury included composers Nico Muhly and Gabriela Lena Frank and conductor David Alan Miller. Moya, who lives in Minnesota, is a graduate of Venezuela’s El Sistema music education system and was a founding member of the touring Simón Bolívar Orchestra. He received a bachelor of music from West Virginia University, and holds master’s and doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School. His music has been performed by ensembles including the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Da Capo Chamber Players, Attacca Quartet, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Minnesota Opera. He is currently on the composition faculty at Augsburg University in Minneapolis. The Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s executive director is Brian Hinrichs, and Lucas Richman is music director. The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation’s stated mission is “to encourage, expand and sustain the courageous and imaginative dialogue that is fundamental to the arts.”