Composer and Composers & the Voice alum (2011-13) Sidney Marquez Boquiren interviewed by AOP's Ziyan Yang, discussing Sidney's experience in AOP's C&V program and developing his opera, INDEPENDENCE EVE, as well as his 2nd year participation in Opera Omaha's Poetry and Music Project ahead of the May 3 concert.

Sidney Marquez Boquiren grew up in the Philippines and Saudi Arabia. As a composer, he is strongly drawn to the practice of collaboration: the ideation, germination, development, creation, realization, performance, and celebration of art that arises out of working closely with others.