CASTRI, Zosha Di

ZOSHA DI CASTRI (b. 1985) is a Canadian composer, pianist and sound artist based in New York. Born in Calgary, she studied piano performance and composition at McGill University and earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Columbia University. She is Francis Goelet Associate Professor of Music and chair of the composition programme at Columbia.
Di Castri writes orchestral, chamber, vocal and electroacoustic music, frequently incorporating video, dance, sculpture and sound installation. Her works explore memory, perception, displacement, physical gesture and the relationship between acoustic sound and technology. Her compositions include Tachitipo, Dear Life, Serafiniana, The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, In the Half-light, Pentimento and Long Is the Journey, Short Is the Memory, commissioned to open the 2019 BBC Proms. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021 and the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2023.