September 3, 2025: Two Neruda Odes 

Alexandra Marie, soprano and Jared Peroune, piano, Southwest Regional Library, Davie, FL

 
     

September 20, 2025: Kiskadee 

Oberlin Orchestra, Raphael Jiménez, cond, Finney Chapel, Oberlin, OH

 
     
  November 1, 2025: Counting-Out Rhyme (new version for Cello and Celesta)** 

Music at Oxford, Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Oxford, UK

 
     

March 1, 2026: Butterflies Remember a Mountain 

Cantus Trio, Rocky Hill Congregational Church, Rocky Hill, CT

 
     
March 8, 2026: Butterflies Remember a Mountain 

Cantus Trio, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy NY

 
     

April 19, 2026: Butterflies Remember a Mountain (excerpt)

Five Senses Ensemble, Theater Lindau, Germany 

 
     
 

April 19, 2026: Butterflies Remember a Mountain 

Altenberg Trio Wien, Musik-und Kunstschule Deutschlandsberg, Austria

 
     
 

April 24, 2026: Selections from Birds and Insects, Book 3 

Zubin Kanga, piano, IKLECTIK, London, UK

 
     

April 28, 2026: Butterflies Remember a Mountain 

Altenberg Trio Wien, Musikverein Brahms Saal, Vienna, Austria

 
     
 

April 28, 2026: A Young Mind in Old Bees**  

NOVO String Quartet and Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon, Cardiff Uni Concert Hall, Cardiff, Wales

 
 

July 6-16th, 2026: Guest Director, Irish Composition Summer School 

Arlene Sierra serves as Guest Director on a Dublin-based course for composers, alongside faculty colleagues Nicola LeFanu, Gráinne Mulvey and Martin O’Leary.

 
 

 

 
 

Projects 

     
 

Bassoon Quintet: A Young Mind in Old Bees

Bassoonist Ben Roidl-Ward, the NOVO Quartet, and the Jupiter Quartet for premieres in Cardiff, Urbana, and London in 2026

Project support by the Vaughan Williams Foundation, and the University of Illinois Discovery Partners Institute with Cardiff University

 
     
  New work for violin and piano
For violinist Michael Foyle and pianists Iain Burnside and Maksim Stsura 
 
     
Nature Symphonies - Arlene Sierra, Volume 5
The long-awaited sequel to Sierra's critically-acclaimed first orchestral disk Game of Attrition, Nature SymphoniesArlene Sierra Volume 5 will focus on the composer's latest symphonic works. 
 
     
  Arlene Sierra, Volume 6
A new chamber addition to the Bridge Records portrait series, Arlene Sierra Volume 6 will focus on the composer's music for string quartet and other chamber ensembles.
 
     
Maya Deren series
Continuing from her successful rescorings of the films Meditation on Violence and Ritual in Transfigured Time for Lontano and the Goldfield Ensemble respectively, Sierra recently completed Studies in Choreography, the third in a series of new scores for chamber ensembles, set to Maya Deren's expressive and surreal films from the 1940's and 50's. The next score in the series will be set to Deren's masterpiece At Land.