Biography

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. She is currently the Francis Goelet Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University and composition area chair.

Highlights this past season include Zosha’s new large chamber work commissioned by the LA Phil; a Koussevitzky commission from the Library of Congress for percussionist Steve Schick and ensemble premiered in November 2024; and collaborations with the Bozzini Quartet and Ensemble Paramirabo/Productions 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. She was also 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.