Latest announcements and articles
April 17, 2025
Upcoming event Saturday March 1st, 2025 4:00 PM at the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, 625 Montgomery Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010. With Rollo Dilworth , Artistic and Music Director; Northeast High School Choir, Patricia Betcher, Director; Teen Voices of the City Ensemble (T-Voce). Whitney Covalle, Di...
December 18, 2024
Suzzette Ortiz & Diana Sáez featured as guest artists for The Washington Chorus' A Candlelight Christmas concert. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Join The Washington Chorus in celebrating the 15th Anniversary of its annual “A Candlelight Christmas,” ringing in the holiday season with joy,...
August 14, 2024
I am excited to share the stage once again with Mark Beecher on drums , Rubin Edwards on bass and Jon Katz on sax this coming Sunday August 18th, 2024 at the 21st Jazz and Art Festival in Morrisville, PA. This event is sponsored by the Michael F. Sherlock Foundation . I am dedicating this performanc...
July 10, 2024
I'm so excited about our performances this week! Join us!
-Suzzette Ortiz
Recent compositions
SATB
Composed by Diana Sáez and Suzzette Ortiz, Temporal is a traditional plena from Puerto Rico. Plena is an Afro-Puerto Rican rhythm that blends melodic and rhythmic elements from Spanish and African musical influences. Temporal means storm, but it can also refer to the hurricanes that are common...
SATB
Canto’ E Libertad (Song of Freedom), commissioned and premiered at the 2023 ACDA National Conference, embodies hope and resilience. This composition in the Afro-Puerto Rican folk-style of bomba invites us to break free from hate and prejudice.
Bomba is a captivating and rhythmic musical genre...
SSA
Que No pare mi Canto (Never Stop Singing) was inspired by a very close friend of the composer who had cancer. The song is written in the bomba genre; an Afro- Puerto Rican danceable music rhythm rooted in the island’s African slavery history. The composer chose the style of sicá, one of many mu...
SA and piano, and SATB and piano
El Sol Brillara Otra Vez is a song of hope and the desire of social justice in the midst of the Pandemic. It has two versions - for SATB and SA - with text in Spanish and English. The song is dedicated to the victims and families of Covid-19 and written for Temple University's Singing Owls under th...