About the Composer
Dr. Zanaida Stewart Robles (b. 1979) is an award-winning Black American female composer, vocalist, and teacher. She is a fierce advocate for diversity and inclusion in music education and performance. Authentic interpersonal connection and relationship-building are core principles of her
teaching and performance methods. Born, raised, and educated in Southern California on the unceded lands of the Gabrielino-Tongva people, she is in demand as a composer, vocalist, clinician and adjudicator for competitions, festivals, and conferences related to choral and solo vocal music.
Dr. Robles’s original music has been performed by professional ensembles, community choirs, educational institutions, churches, and individuals worldwide. Her works are published by Stewart Robles Music, Music Spoke, E.B. Marks Music, Pavane Publishing, Stainer and Bell and Hinshaw Music. Her compositional style can be described as energized, soulful, contrapuntal, harmonically colorful, rhythmically driven, heavily modal, occasionally with African elements and touches of progressive rock.
Dr. Robles holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the USC Thornton School of Music, a Master of Music degree from CSU Northridge, a Bachelor of Music degree from CSU Long Beach, and she is a graduate of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.
Slow, pleasingly ( q»64 )
Soprano Alto
Slow, pleasingly ( q»64 )
Piano (for rehearsal only)