KIRSTEN, Amy Beth

Amy Beth Kirsten is a composer, director, writer, and vocalist whose work blurs boundaries between music, theatre, and ritual. Her 2025–26 season includes completing Eating theUnderworld for Bergamot Quartet and voice, releasing Misfit Toys for concert band, and appearing at the Midwest Clinic. Recognized by the American Academy of Arts andLetters, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, Kirsten is also a published poet under the pen name Aster Isler, with a debut chapbook titled Steady AsWe Fall. She teaches composition at The Juilliard School and The Curtis Institute of Music and lives in New Haven, CT, with her doodle-hound Roux-ga-Roux and orange cat HiggsB.Full catalogue of works HERE.