Jorge Sosa is a Mexican-born composer and sound artist.
Upcoming/In Development:
Splintered, a live electronic Nutcracker fantasia with Justine Chen and Lila Palmer for American Lyric Theater
The Opposable Thumb with Julian Crouch for American Lyric Theater
La Reina, a miracle story set amongst drug lords and saints with Laura Sosa Pedroza, commissioned by American Lyric Theater
Monkey for Whitesnake Productions
The Monarch of Uxmal for The Little Orchestra Society (orchestra and narrator)
Selected Previous Commissions:
I dissent - Albany Symphony Orchestra
Alice in the Pandemic with Whitesnake Productions
Punto y Línea for solo flute for the 2019 London Festival of American Music
Cells for ensemble and electronics at the Diffrazioni Multimedia Festival, Italy
MOST LIKELY TO SAY:
“Whatever happens is convenient.”
“I have something to say and I am saying it”
ON THE JOB:
“I write tunes and make electronic noises with the computer.”
PRESS:
“along the lines of sending your consciousness on the Cosmic Turnpike where the exit ramps are never permanent. Eerie, haunting, dreamlike, at times nightmarish—and highly recommended.”
—Mark Keresman, ICON Magazine
Jorge Sosa is a Mexican-born composer and sound artist currently residing in New York. He participated in ALT’s CLDP program in 2008. Opera News described his most recent telematicopera for Whitesnake Productions, Alice in the Pandemic as ‘wildly imaginative, musically powerful and technically courageous.’ Upcoming commissions include the Monarch of Uxmal, a new work for orchestra and narrator for The Little Orchestra Society, premiering May 2021; two new operas commissioned and developed by American Lyric Theater, The Opposable Thumb with Julian Crouch (workshop 2021)and Splintered: A Nutcracker Adventure (workshop 2022) and a third opera for White Snake Projects, Monkey (workshop 2021, premier 2022). In 2020 the NYU New Music Ensemble released an album dedicated to Jorge’s improvisation works with electronics. Other select commissions include I Dissent commissioned by Albany Symphony Orchestra, based on three iconic dissenting opinions by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor; Punto y Línea for solo flute for the 2019 London Festival of American Music; Cells for ensemble and electronics, featured at the Diffrazioni Multimedia Festival,Italy, and in the International Computer Music Conference, New York. In 2019 Jorge was a guest artist with New Music Detroit during their 2019 Strange Beautiful Music Festival. Jorge’s first full-length opera, La Reina commissioned by American Lyric Theater, was performed in the 2016 PROTOTYPE festival in NY. Jorge is an Associate Professor at Molloy College.