Zosha Di Castri

Zosha Di Castri is a Canadian Composer and pianist whose work came to international attention when a specially commissioned piece about the lunar landings opened the BBC Proms 2019.

She became Assistant Professor of Music at Columbia in 2014, after completing her DMA there. Her work has been performed by the San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

On 19 July 2019 her specially commissioned work Long is the Journey, Short is the Memory opened the BBC Proms 2019 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers conducted by Karina Canellakis. Reviewers commented on "Di Castri’s skill as an orchestrator" and described it as "celestial and dramatic"

Important works

Important works include

• Cortege (2010) for 13 musicians
• La forma dello spazio (2010) for chamber ensemble
• Lineage (2013)
• Phonobellow (2015) for 5 instrumentalists, electronics and interactive sound sculpture, co-composed with David Adamcyk
• String Quartet No 1 (2016)
• Long is the Journey, Short is the Memory (2019) for Orchestra & Chorus, commissioned for the [BBC Proms] 2019