Reinaldo Moya

An ASCAP 2007 Morton Gould Young Composer Award Recipient, Reindaldo Moya just graduated with a degree in music composition from The Juilliard School in May 2008 where he is also pursuing a Doctorate in Musical Arts degree. While at Juilliard, his teachers have included Samuel Adler and Robert Beaser. A native of Venezuela, Moya was a member of the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra and performed throughout North and South America, as well as Europe. In the summer of 2005, he studied composition in Berlin with Samuel Adler, which he describes as "life-changing." His Strinq Quartet No. 1 was premiered by the Attacca Quartet in the summer of 2007 as part of the Summergarden Series at the Museum of Modern Art. The performance was reviewed by the New York Times as "Admirable...with subtly delineated sections" The Attacca Quartet offered another performance of the piece in March of 2007 as part of the Chamber Music Society of Southwest Florida in Fort Myers, FA. He participated in the "Composers and Choreographers" workshop at The Juilliard School and his "Ethereal Whispers" (correographed by Nathan Madden) was premiered in December of 2007. His orchestral work Aurora Australis was awarded the Special Judges Award at the Juilliard Orchestral Composition Contest in 2008. The work received its premiered on May 1st, 2008 in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at the Juilliard School with Jeffrey Millarsky conducting the Juilliard Orchestra. Mr. Moya holds a Bachelors of Music degree in composition from West Virginia University where he studied composition with John Beall and violin with Laura Kobayashi.