JORGE SOSA

COMPOSER | OPERA, CONCERT, FILM AND MEDIA

"Dreamlike and sometimes
even nightmarish music."

Ruth Renée Reif, Crescendo Magazine

Honored to have received an @operaamerica Development Grant for Ofrenda with libretto by @jnddirect and commissioned by @austinopera So excited to show this work in the Fall!!
Honored to have received an @operaamerica Development Grant for Ofrenda with libretto by @jnddirect and commissioned by @austinopera So excited to show this work in the Fall!!
#aquiestoy_ynomevoy
#aquiestoy_ynomevoy
Happy end of 2025 and all the best for 2026!! Music from To The People Like Us, performed by @ninaevelynsoprano and @thewalkingtenor
Congratulations @jenna_halvorsen on a lovely senior recital. Proud of you, friend! @musicatmolloy
Congratulations @jenna_halvorsen on a lovely senior recital. Proud of you, friend! @musicatmolloy
My new opera “Ofrenda” with libretto by @jnddirect will premiere this Fall at @austinopera Can’t wait!!
My new opera “Ofrenda” with libretto by @jnddirect will premiere this Fall at @austinopera Can’t wait!!
Dress rehearsal for Austin Opera Celebrate Opera Concert!! So happy to be in Austin with such great friends!!
Dress rehearsal for Austin Opera Celebrate Opera Concert!! So happy to be in Austin with such great friends!!
Happy opera day!! And what an opera year! I was so lucky to collaborate with amazing artists including excerpts of Monkey at @operaamerica New Works Forum, a workshop of Ofrenda @operareadingproject the Mexican premiere of Dreamer with @esceniaensamb
Happy opera day!! And what an opera year! I was so lucky to collaborate with amazing artists including excerpts of Monkey at @operaamerica New Works Forum, a workshop of Ofrenda @operareadingproject the Mexican premiere of Dreamer with @esceniaensamble.ac the world premiere of To The People Like Us with @whitesnakeprojects the world premiere of Generación Perdida with @teatrograttacielo and the 20 year anniversary gala with @american_lyric_theater and 2026 seems like it’s going to be busy!! Stay tuned!
Friends! Join me in celebrating an amazing organization that has launched numerous careers in opera. @american_lyric_theater an organization dear to my heart. ALT commissioned my first opera and fifteen years later, I am proud to sit on their board.
Friends! Join me in celebrating an amazing organization that has launched numerous careers in opera. @american_lyric_theater an organization dear to my heart. ALT commissioned my first opera and fifteen years later, I am proud to sit on their board. It will be an amazing evening of new opera, great artists, and friends!
A few friends and I heading to @teatrograttacielo performance of excerpts from my Generación Perdida, based on the book by @javiermoroh this afternoon at @gothamparknyc 2:30 pm. With @fortezaeugenia and @ericjuneau . Resist, make art, rinse,
A few friends and I heading to @teatrograttacielo performance of excerpts from my Generación Perdida, based on the book by @javiermoroh this afternoon at @gothamparknyc 2:30 pm. With @fortezaeugenia and @ericjuneau . Resist, make art, rinse, repeat!
Honored to have received an @operaamerica Development Grant for Ofrenda with libretto by @jnddirect and commissioned by @austinopera So excited to show this work in the Fall!! #aquiestoy_ynomevoy
Happy end of 2025 and all the best for 2026!! Music from To The People Like Us, performed by @ninaevelynsoprano and @thewalkingtenor
Congratulations @jenna_halvorsen on a lovely senior recital. Proud of you, friend! @musicatmolloy My new opera “Ofrenda” with libretto by @jnddirect will premiere this Fall at @austinopera Can’t wait!! Dress rehearsal for Austin Opera Celebrate Opera Concert!! So happy to be in Austin with such great friends!! Happy opera day!! And what an opera year! I was so lucky to collaborate with amazing artists including excerpts of Monkey at @operaamerica New Works Forum, a workshop of Ofrenda @operareadingproject the Mexican premiere of Dreamer with @esceniaensamb Friends! Join me in celebrating an amazing organization that has launched numerous careers in opera. @american_lyric_theater an organization dear to my heart. ALT commissioned my first opera and fifteen years later, I am proud to sit on their board. A few friends and I heading to @teatrograttacielo performance of excerpts from my Generación Perdida, based on the book by @javiermoroh this afternoon at @gothamparknyc 2:30 pm. With @fortezaeugenia and @ericjuneau . Resist, make art, rinse,

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About

Award-winning composer Jorge Sosa Ortega's music has been performed hundreds of times around the world - from New Zealand to Iran and consistently to great acclaim.

He has won a great many awards, including five NEA grants, an Opera America IDEA Grant amongst other accolades. His works have received rave reviews from major publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Opera News, and Boston Globe.

Jorge won Best Original Score at the Vesuvius International Film Festival for his work on the film Acceptance. His opera I Am A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams has been performed multiple times throughout the United States and México. Alice In The Pandemic, written during lockdown, is a groundbreaking work that features
synchronized remote singers, animation, and motion capture, and has the special
distinction of being archived in the Library of Congress as part of their Pandemic
Response Collection. His Generación Perdida is about the human rights crisis in Mexico, and has been performed in New York and throughout Mexico.

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Jorge holds a doctorate in composition and electronic music from the University of
Missouri Kansas City. Originally from Mexico City, at present Jorge lives in New York City, and teaches composition at Molloy University.

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