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Called “wonderfully strange” (Pioneer Press) and “a cauldron of subtle sounds” (All About Jazz), the “smooth and serrated melodies” (The New York Times) of composer inti figgis-vizueta invite listeners into elemental sonic worlds that reveal “structure and simplicity within a cacophony of sound and complicated texture” (The Strad Magazine). She is the recipient of the Fred Ho Award from The ASCAP Foundation, the National Sawdust Hildegard Award, the American Composers Orchestra’s CoLABoratory Fellowship, and is the upcoming Dumbarton Oaks Early-Career Musician-in-Residence. inti enjoys weaving classical aesthetics and improvisational approaches into spontaneous, interactive works that highlight the transformative power of communal listening; The Washington Post says her music “feels sprouted between structures, liberated from certainty and wrought from a language we’d do well to learn”.
inti’s work has been commissioned and performed by leading American musicians and ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Kronos Quartet, Attacca Quartet, JACK Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, Wild Up, Alarm Will Sound, Ensemble Dal Niente, Talea Ensemble, and Orchestra at St. Lukes, as well as European groups like Crash Ensemble, Ensemble Reflektor, James McVinnie’s Ensemble, and more. Recent highlights include the premiere of her cello concerto, Amaru, written for Jay Campbell and the LA Phil, conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni; and a Carnegie Hall debut featuring the Kronos Quartet premiering her played-in-the-dark piece, music by yourself. inti wrote quiet city (& easter bells from the bowery) for violinist Jennifer Koh, featured her 2022 GRAMMY award-winning album Alone Together. |
Upcoming projects include a new concerto for the GRAMMY award-winning Attacca Quartet and American Composers Orchestra, a new interdisciplinary work for vocal octet with the GRAMMY award-winning Roomful of Teeth and animator Rose Bond, and Haydn response projects for PODIUM Esslingen ft. Ensemble Reflektor and period instrument ensemble, The Cramer Quartet.
Committed to cultivating the next generation of free and creative musicmakers, inti regularly teaches with the Luna Composition Lab, founded and run by composers Missy Mazzoli & Ellen Reid, and Wildflower Composers Festival; both programs work to increase access and opportunities for young gender expansive and women composers. inti speaks regularly on her music with recent seminar presentations at NYU, McGill, UCSD, Duke, and the LA Phil Composer Fellowship program and regular coaches her music with emerging artist programs like Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Music Academy of the West, and Nief Norf Summer Festival. inti has participated in fellowships and residencies with the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, MASS MoCA, Copland House, Center for Ballet & the Arts/National Sawdust, Avaloch Farm Music Institute, Lawrence University, Pocantico Center, LA Philharmonic National Composers Intensive, Sō Percussion Studio, and Virginia Tech. Her music has been featured at festivals such as TIME:SPANS, Ojai, Caramoor, Aspen, Spoleto, New Music Dublin, PODIUM Esslingen, and many more.
inti studied with Marcos Balter, Felipe Lara, George Lewis, and Donnacha Dennehy. She received mentorship from Angélica Negrón, Andrew Norman, Tania León, Amy Beth Kirsten, Anthony Cheung, Du Yun, and Gavilán Rayna Russom.
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. inti is committed to creating and supporting trans and Indigenous futures through her work and advocacy.
Committed to cultivating the next generation of free and creative musicmakers, inti regularly teaches with the Luna Composition Lab, founded and run by composers Missy Mazzoli & Ellen Reid, and Wildflower Composers Festival; both programs work to increase access and opportunities for young gender expansive and women composers. inti speaks regularly on her music with recent seminar presentations at NYU, McGill, UCSD, Duke, and the LA Phil Composer Fellowship program and regular coaches her music with emerging artist programs like Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Music Academy of the West, and Nief Norf Summer Festival. inti has participated in fellowships and residencies with the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, MASS MoCA, Copland House, Center for Ballet & the Arts/National Sawdust, Avaloch Farm Music Institute, Lawrence University, Pocantico Center, LA Philharmonic National Composers Intensive, Sō Percussion Studio, and Virginia Tech. Her music has been featured at festivals such as TIME:SPANS, Ojai, Caramoor, Aspen, Spoleto, New Music Dublin, PODIUM Esslingen, and many more.
inti studied with Marcos Balter, Felipe Lara, George Lewis, and Donnacha Dennehy. She received mentorship from Angélica Negrón, Andrew Norman, Tania León, Amy Beth Kirsten, Anthony Cheung, Du Yun, and Gavilán Rayna Russom.
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. inti is committed to creating and supporting trans and Indigenous futures through her work and advocacy.