Susie Ibarra

Quick Facts

Full Name	Susie Ibarra
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Nov 15, 1970(1970-11-15)
Age	54
Birthplace	Anaheim
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Scorpio

Susie Ibarra Biography

Susie Ibarra is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on November 15, 1970 in Anaheim, California, United States. Susie Ibarra (born Anaheim, California on November 15, 1970) is a contemporary musician and composer who has recorded and performed with classical, jazz world, indigenous, and musicians. She is one of SPIN’s “100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music,” she is well-known as an artist in avant-garde music, jazz, world and electronic music. As a composer Ibarra blends various styles and elements on Philippine Kulintang, jazz, poetry, classical, musical theatre, opera as well as electronic music. Ibarra continues to be active as a performer, composer educator, as well as a documentarian across her native U.S., Philippines, and around the world. She is interested in and actively involved in work that blends folklore and indigenous culture along with the avant-garde. In the year 2004, Ibarra began field recording indigenous Philippine music. In 2009 she founded Song of the Bird King the organization that is focused in the protection of Indigenous music and the environment.

In 2006, Ibarra released Dialects with Electric Kulintang, a CD on Plastic Records, a duo collaboration with Roberto Juan Rodriguez with compositions that feature electronic instruments as well as kulintang gongs, percussion as well as field recordings.

In February 2007 she composed for a commission by Ars Nova Workshop in Philadelphia, Kit: Music for Four Pianists, eight-hand piano, in an evening work of Ibarra’s percussion music.

In 2007, American Composers Orchestra commissioned Pintados Dream/The Painted’s Dream, a drum concerto with Ibarra soloing, a chamber orchestra and visual art by Makoto Fujimura which world premiered at Carnegie Zankel Hall in October of that year.

Ibarra began making recordings in the field of kulintang gong from the Philippines in 2004. The year 2007 was the time she was awarded the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship to study folklore and indigenous music of the Philippines. Ibarra as well as Roberto Juan Rodriguez researched, recorded and filmed seven indigenous tribes that are endangered in the Philippines between 2008 and 2009 and documented conservation efforts of the nearly disappearing Philippine Eagle. The year 2009 was the time they formed Song of the Bird King to focus on the protection of indigenous culture and ecology.

Susie Ibarra Net Worth

Susie Ibarra is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Susie Ibarra 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The smallest child of 5 children Ibarra was raised in Anaheim, California, and was raised within Houston, Texas. The parents of her Bartolome Ibarra and Herminia Ibarra were both physicians who moved to the Philippines. She started playing the piano at age four. When she was in grade school, she performed in church and school choirs. She also played in an punk rock band during high school. When she was at Sarah Lawrence College in the late 1980s, Ibarra was a part of an Sun Ra performance which she is credited with igniting her love for jazz. She also attended Mannes College The New School for Music as well as Goddard College, where she obtained her B.A. in Music.

In 2004 Ibarra recorded Folkloriko the first of a series comprised of 11 images that depict the day-to-day life of an Filipino professionsman who is a migrant. The piece was first performed on the Freer Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution in connection with the first Filipino photography exhibition of Ricardo Alvarado. The album was recorded by Tzadik Records and performed by Jennifer Choi (violin), Craig Taborn (piano), Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) and Ibarra (drums and percussion).

Also in 2007, her solo CD, Drum Sketches, was commissioned by The Brecht Forum and American Composers Forum on Innova Recordings. These solo pieces are performed and recorded by Ibarra on drum kit, sarunay and kulintang (Philippine xylophone and eight rowed gongs), also including field recordings. They are sonic sketches of Ibarra’s sound that include both traditional and avant-garde musical idioms.

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Ibarra was named “Best Percussionist” in the 2010 Downbeat International Readers Poll and “Best Percussionist, Rising Star” in the 2009 and 2011 Downbeat Critics Poll. Ibarra has been featured on the cover of percussion magazines such as Tom Tom and Modern Drummer. Ibarra is a Yamaha Drums, Vic Firth, and Paiste Cymbals Artist.

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Susie Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Susie Ibarra celebrates birthday on November 15 of every year.