Susie Ibarra
Biography
Susie Ibarra (born Anaheim, November 15, 1970) is an American contemporary composer and percussionist who has worked and recorded with jazz, classical, world, and indigenous musicians. One of SPIN's "100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music", she is known for her work as a performer in avant-garde, jazz, world, and new music. She received the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Music. As a composer, Ibarra incorporates diverse styles and the influences of Philippine Kulintang, jazz, classical, poetry, musical theater, opera, and electronic music. Ibarra remains active as a composer, performer, educator, and documentary filmmaker in the U.S., Philippines, and internationally. She is interested and involved in works that blend folkloric and indigenous tradition with avant-garde. In 2004, Ibarra began field recording indigenous Philippine music.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
114 releases · 23 albums · active 1969–2024
- Performance · 227
- Other credits · 36
- Production · 3
- Engineering · 2
Studios: Alex The Great · Big House · Sound On Sound, New York · The Pigeon Club
Frequent collaborators
- Yo La Tengo
- David S. Ware Quartet
- Wadada Leo Smith
- William Parker
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
- David S. Ware
- Pierre Lalonde
- The David S. Ware Quartets