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Zosha Di Castri
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3.5cm of textual records and other materials
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Zosha Di Castri was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1985, and grew up further north in St. Albert. She is an established composer-performer who earned her bachelor’s degree in Music from McGill University in Montréal, focusing on piano performance and composition, before obtaining a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Columbia University in New York City. Since then, her work has been performed in Canada, the United States, South America, and Asia. Her compositions extend beyond purely concert music, however, including projects with electronics, sound arts, and collaborations with video and dance. In 2012, she received the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for her work Cortège. More recently, she completed a year-long fellowship at the inaugural Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris and now resides in New York City, where she serves as the Francis Goelet Assistant Professor of Music at Columbia.
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Series consists of scores, sketches, notes, edited drafts, correspondence, inspirational materials, and photographs related to Zosha Di Castri’s composition Sprung Testament: Duo for Violin and Prepared Piano. The work is a collaborative piece between composer/pianist Di Castri and violinist Jenny Koh. Koh was planning a series of concerts for National Sawdust, an innovative arts institution located in Brooklyn, New York, and reached out to various composers/performers to participate. Koh set the theme of the concert, asking each composer to engage with the idea of rebirth and evolution. In response, Di Castri wrote Sprung Testament which encapsulates the concepts of spring and rebirth. In their conversations, the two musicians questioned the journey one goes through in life to transcend personal struggles. Di Castri used sticky mounting putty to modify the piano, thereby creating unique sounds and highlighting Koh’s theme of transformation. Print photographs of the prepared piano can be found in the "Images" file of the fonds. Koh and Di Castri premiered Sprung Testament at National Sawdust on March 15th, 2018.
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3.5cm of textual records ; and 5 col. photographs