inti figgis-vizueta

inti figgis-vizueta (b.1993) is a composer and educator who works to reconcile historical aesthetics and experimental practices with trans & Indigenous futures. Described as a “rising new music star” (LA Times), with “smooth and serrated melodies” (New York Times) and an “intriguing…highly integrated sound” (Gramophone), “wrought from a language we’d do well to learn” (Washington Post), inti has been commissioned and performed by leading artists including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, ensemble reflektor, Kronos Quartet, Attacca Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, violinist Jennifer Koh, and cellists Andrew Yee, Jay Campbell, and Jakob Nierenz, among many others. inti is the recipient of the Lotos Foundation Prize, ASCAP Foundation Fred Ho Award, National Sawdust Hildegard Award, Café Royal Foundation Music Grant and residency fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks, Civitella Ranieri, and Music at Copland House. inti studied with Marcos Balter, Felipe Lara, Donnacha Dennehy, and George Lewis. Her mentors include Tania León, Nico Muhly, Angélica Negrón, and Andrew Norman.