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Zanaida Stewart Robles is an award-winning Black American female composer, conductor, vocalist, and clinician. She is a fierce advocate for diversity and inclusion in music education and performance. Authentic interpersonal connection and relationship-building are core principles of her composition, teaching, and performance methods. Her original compositions have been commissioned and performed by professional ensembles, community choirs, educational institutions, churches, and individuals world wide. Her compositional style can be described as classical, energized, soulful, harmonically colorful, rhythmically driven, heavily modal with touches of pop, progressive rock, and African elements. Robles was born, raised, and educated in Southern California on the unceded lands of the Gabrielino-Tongva people.
