Zosha Di Castri

Zosha Di Castri, a Canadian “composer of riotously inventive works” (The New Yorker), currently lives in New York. Her music has been performed extensively worldwide 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 and Composition Area Chair at Columbia University.

Highlights this season include the world premiere and European tour of Invisible House for orchestra, written to open the New York Philharmonic’s season and co-commissioned by the LA Philharmonic, both conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. New chamber works in 2026-27 include a duo in memory of Kaija Saariaho for cellist Anssi Karttunen and organist Olivier Latry to be premiered at Maison de Radio-France, Paris, and a new work for oboist James Austin Smith to be premiered at Carnegie Hall.

Notable 2025/26 performances include the European premiere of Hunger for orchestra and improvised drummer at the Warsaw Autumn Festival, written to accompany Peter Foldes’ 1973 eponymous silent film; and Delve, a new string quartet written for Bozzini Quartet, premiered in New York (TIME:SPANS), Utrecht (Gaudeamus Festival), Montréal (Le Vivier), and Toronto (Soundstreams). In 2024/25 she wrote Noctiluca for large ensemble commissioned by the LA Phil; and TOUCH:TRACE for percussionist Steve Schick and International Contemporary Ensemble, commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation through the Library of Congress.

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. Tachitipo was praised as “a formidable statement. It is so comprehensively realized, institutionally ratified, and sensitive to the creative exigencies of the 21st century that one wants to send a copy of it to the publishers of textbooks for music history survey courses in the hope that it will be included in a last chapter or two” (I Care If You Listen).

Zosha is a recipient of the 2023 American Academy of Arts and Letters Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, was an inaugural fellow at the 2018-19 Paris Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and won the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for her work Cortège in 2012. For more information, please visit:

www.zoshadicastri.com