Susie Ibarra
Filipina-American composer, percussionist, and sound artist Susie Ibarra has been a vital voice in experimental music for more than twenty years. Weaving a fluid approach to the drum kit with elements drawn from Pinoy musical traditions, her music has also been performed by leading contemporary music interpreters such as Kronos Quartet, Claire Chase, and PRISM Saxophone Quartet & Percussion and documented by labels such as Tzadik, Incus, and Thrill Jockey. Having engaged with collaborators spanning Yo La Tengo to David S. Ware, she also scored the Sean Devlin film When the Storm Fades and generated multimedia game piece Fragility: An Exploration of Polyrhythms for Asia Society. Ibarra is a 2019 United States Artist Fellow in Music, a Senior TED Fellow, and a 2018 Asian Cultural Council Fellow. Since 2012, she has been a faculty member at Bennington College where she teaches percussion, performance, improvisation, and art intervention.