Canadian composer and pianist
Zosha Di Castri (born 1985) is a Canadian composer and pianist living and working in New York. She is the Francis Goelet Assistant Professor of Music at Columbia University .[ 1] [ 2] BBC Proms 2019.
Early life and education
Di Castri was born in Calgary , Alberta , and grew up in St. Albert .[ 3] McGill University , and graduated from Columbia University with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree.
Career
Di Castri became an assistant professor of music at Columbia in 2014. In 2015 her work Dear Life was premiered by the National Arts Centre orchestra.[ 4] [ 5]
On 19 July 2019 her specially commissioned work Long is the Journey, Short is the Memory opened the BBC Proms 2019 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers conducted by Karina Canellakis .[ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9]
Di Castri's compositions are also performed by the JACK Quartet .[ 10]
In 2019, Di Castri released a debut album of her compositions in performances by various ensembles and artists.[ 11]
In 2021, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship .[ 1]
Selected works
Anssi de suite… (2015) for solo celloAKKORD I (2012) for flute, piano, electronics, and kinetic sculpture installationAlba (2011) for orchestraThe Animal After Whom Other Aninsls Are named (2013) for six singers and electronicsThe Contours of Absence (2018) for string octet (double quartet)Cortège (2010) for 13 musiciansDear Life (2015) for orchestra, soprano, and recorded narratorDream Feed Origins (2020) for fixed mediaDream Feed I. - ZD/Olivia (2021) for fixed media, violin, pianoDream Feed II. - ZD/Pauchi (2021) for fixed media, violin(s)/voice and processing, and pianoDream Feed III. - ZD/Alice (2021) for fixed media, voice/flute and processing, and pianoDream Feed IV. - ZD/Chloe (2021) for fixed media, cello and processing, and pianoDream Feed V. - ZD/Aiyum (2021) for fixed media, percussion, and pianoDu haut de l’Orillon (2007, revised 2008) for clarinet and electronicsDUX (2017) for solo pianoEscapement (2009) for oboe, saxophone, percussion, piano, and accordionEverything Too Big To Take Apart (2012) for tape and interactive wii controller, for danceFour Miniatures for Woodwind Quintet (2009, revised 2010) for woodwind quintethow many bodies have we to pass through (2017, revised 2019) for solo percussionHunger (2018) for orchestra, improvised drummer, and silent filmIn the Half-light (2022) for Orchestra, commissioned for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra La forma dello spazio (2010) for chamber ensembleL’allée d’ardoise (2009) for 12 musiciansLineage (2013)Listen to Low (2010) for tapeLong is the Journey, Short is the Memory (2019) for Orchestra & Chorus, commissioned for the [BBC Proms] 2019Manif (2013) for percussion quartetNear Mute Force (2016) for 2 voices, viola, piano, drum set plus auxiliary percussionPamplecaribou (2013) for amplified flute, piano, cello, and tapePatina (2016) for solo violinPhonobellow (2015) for 5 instrumentalists, electronics and interactive sound sculpture, co-composed with David AdamcykThe Phonograph (2014) for baritone, violin, and celloPhonophotographie (2012) for 15 musiciansSerafiniana (2014) for orchestra, amplified solo violin, amplified harp, and electronicsSprung Testament (2018) for piano and violinStrange Matter (2011) for 8 musiciansString Quartet No 1 (2016)
sulla mappa concava del buio (2010) for string quartet, soprano, and electronicsTachitipo (2016) for two pianists, two percussionists, and electronicsThe Thinking Eye (2006) for solo pianoWake, Butterfly (2015) for 12 musiciansWork and Day (2012) for percussion duo
References
^ a b "Meet the New Crop of 2021 Guggenheim Fellows" . Columbia News . Retrieved 2022-04-10 .^ "A Conversation with Zosha Di Castri, the Francis Goelet Assistant Professor of Composition" . Columbia University Department of Music . 2020-03-02. Retrieved 2022-04-10 .^ "New music composer Zosha Di Castri talks about insights, creativity and challenges" . St. Albert Gazette , Feb 10, 2018, Anna Borowiecki^ Sarah Jennings. Art and Politics: The History of the National Arts Centre, Second Edition ISBN 978-0-7735-5995-0 . p. 408.
^ Peter Robb, "NACO's cutting edge: Dear Life leads the way into a new form of musical presentation" . Ottawa Citizen , September 14, 2015
^ "Behind the Proms' celestial opening number" . BBC News , By Mark Savage, 19 July 2019^ "First night of the Proms review – the moon, and female stars" . The Guardian , Erica Jeal, 21 Jul 2019^ "BBC Proms, review: First night is a finely nuanced success" . The Independent , 20-July-2019. Michael Church^ "Why more millennials should go proms". New Statesman 20-July-2019^ "What’s Old is Strikingly New With the JACK Quartet" . San Francisco Classical Voice , By Rebecca Wishnia, May 14, 2019^ "Composer Zosha Di Castri Releases Debut Album TACHITIPO On New Focus Recordings" . Broadway World , Oct. 25, 2019
External links
International National Artists
