INTERVIEW
January 15, 2021

Episode 1: Reinaldo Moya

On the Life of a Mexican-American

In our debut episode, Han Chen talks with composer Reinaldo Moya about his opera Tienda and his immigrant story. He moved to the States as a teenager from Venezuela and is now an assistant professor at Augsburg University. Performance of Moya's “Nocturne Atop a Train” recorded on November 26, 2020, in New York.

 
 
 
 
 

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