Sidney Marquez Boquiren grew up in the Philippines and Saudi Arabia but has spent most of his adult life in the United States. He has collaborated with artists on various projects including Biblical illumination (folia ligni for Spark and Echo Arts); multi-media and multi-sensory art experience (The Gretel Project with Lauren K. Alleyne, Catherine Chung, and Tomiko Jones); and chamber opera (Independence Eve with Daniel Neer). He has received commissions from American Modern Ensemble; NOISE; and Parhelion Trio. He has also written works for ensemble amarcord (Germany); Voces Nordicae (Sweden); and The Voices of Davao (Philippines). Most recently, The Book of Mourning, Quarto II: Tala, a new work for two pianos and two percussion and commissioned by nief-norf, was premiered during their 2018 Summer Festival. He is one of 32 artists in the international roster invited to compose new solo piano works for Yael Weiss’s “32 Bright Clouds” inspired by the piano sonatas of Beethoven and responding to the socio-political climate in the U.S. and around the world. His compositions are often informed and influenced by his Catholic faith and Philippine identity, and offer a personal response to social injustices.
A MacDowell Fellow, Sidney is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Music at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York. He sings with the Ignatian Schola as well as the choir of The Church of St. Francis Xavier in Manhattan, New York.
