Zosha Di Castri, a Canadian “composer of riotously inventive works” (The New Yorker), currently lives in New York. Her music has been performed across Canada, the United States, South America, Asia, and Europe and extends beyond purely concert music, including projects with electronics, sound arts, and collaborations with video and dance that encourage audiences to feel “compelled to return for repeated doses” (The Arts Desk). She is currently the Francis Goelet Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University. Highlights this season include Zosha’s new large chamber work commissioned by the LA Phil and conducted by John Adams, premiering April 2024; a Koussevitzky commission from the Library of Congress for percussionist Steve Schick and ensemble premiering November 2024; and upcoming collaborations with the Quatuor Bozzini and Ensemble Paramirabo /Totem contemporain. Zosha’s 2019 debut album Tachitipo was released on New Focus Recordings to critical acclaim. The title track was nominated for The JUNO Awards’ 2021 Classical Composition of the Year. Tachitipo was praised as “a formidable statement. It is so comprehensively realized, institutionally ratified, and sensitive to the creative exigencies of the 21st century that one wants to send a copy of it to the publishers of textbooks for music history survey courses in the hope that it will be included in a last chapter or two” (I Care If You Listen). Zosha is a recipient of the 2023 American Academy of Arts and Letters Lieberson Fellowship, the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, and an inaugural fellow at the 2018-19 Paris Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

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