"...ever-intriguing, rising new music star..." - Mark Swed, LA Times
photo by Lila Barth
inti figgis-vizueta (b. 1993) writes magically real musics through the lens of personal identities, braiding a childhood of overlapping immigrant communities and Black-founded Freedom schools—in Chocolate City (DC)—with direct Andean & Irish heritage and a deep connection to the land.
Music for Transitions [2020] - Andrew Yee, cello
"[inti's] music feels sprouted between structures, liberated from certainty and wrought from a language we’d do well to learn." - Michael Andor Brodeur, The Washington Post
Earths to Come [2023/26] - Roomful of Teeth / Rose Bond
"And there continues to be nothing but promise in the emerging inti figgis-vizueta, whose “To give you form and breath,” for three percussionists, slyly warped time in a juxtaposition of resonant and dull sounds of found objects like wood and planters." - Joshua Barone, The New York Times
Music by Yourself [2023/25] - Next Festival of Performing Artists
[all photos by LIla Barth, unless otherwise noted]