inti figgis-vizueta virtual residency
January 4, 2021
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NME Workshop April 27, 2021 5-7 p.m.
Composition Seminar April 29, 2021 2-3:15 p.m.
C+I Faculty & Guest Concert May 4, 2021 6 p.m.
“[inti’s] music feels sprouted between structures, liberated from certainty and wrought from a language we’d do well to learn” - The Washington Post
Originally from Washington D.C. and now residing in New York City, inti figgis-vizueta (b. 1993) focuses on close collaborative relationships with a wide range of ensembles and soloists. Her musical practice is physical and visceral, attempting to reconcile historical aesthetics and experimental practices with trans and indigenous futures. The New York Times speaks of her music as “alternatively smooth & serrated,” The Washington Post as “raw, scraping yet soaring,” and the National Sawdust Log as "all turbulence" and “quietly focused." inti is the 2020 recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Fred Ho Award for “work that defies boundary and genre”.
Recent commissions include works for the Attacca Quartet, JACK Quartet, Crash Ensemble, Music from Copland House Ensemble, & Earspace Ensemble, as well as Jennifer Koh, Matt Haimovitz, and Andrew Yee. Her music has been presented in spaces such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Chicago Symphony Center, Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Louise M. Davis Symphony Hall, and the Dublin National Concert Hall. She is currently in residency at So Percussion’s Brooklyn studio for the 2021-22 season.
inti is a mentor for the 2021-22 Luna Composition Lab and returning 2021 faculty member for the Young Women Composers Camp. inti maintains a busy presentation schedule, with recent talks at McGill University, Manhattan School of Music, Peabody Institute, UC Boulder, and UC Santa Barbara. inti also regularly appears on artist panels including engagements with National Sawdust/Center for Ballet and the Arts @ NYU, University of Kansas, American Composers Forum, and the New Latin Wave Festival.
inti studied privately with Marcos Balter, George Lewis, Donnacha Dennehy, and Felipe Lara. inti received mentorship from Gavilán Rayna Russom, Du Yun, Angélica Negrón, Tania León, and Amy Beth Kirsten.
inti loves reading poetry, particularly Danez Smith and Joy Harjo. inti honors her Quechua bisabuela, who was the only woman butcher on the whole plaza central and used to fight men with a machete.