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inti figgis-vizueta (b. 1993) is a composer and educator who works to reconcile historical aesthetics and experimental practices with trans and Indigenous futures.

Described as “dramatic” and “intense” (The New York Times), a “rising new music star” (LA Times), and “wrought from a language we’d do well to learn” (The Washington Post), inti has been commissioned and performed by leading artists including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Dallas Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, New World Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Reflektor, Queer Urban Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, Wild Up, Roomful of Teeth, Contemporaneous, Kronos Quartet, Attacca Quartet, JACK Quartet, Music from Copland House, violinist Jennifer Koh, cellists Andrew Yee and Jay Campbell, Ensemble Connect, and Crash Ensemble, among many others. inti’s work has been featured at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Hall Concert Hall, Symphony Center, REDCAT, National Concert Hall (IE), Southbank Centre (UK), Philharmonie de Paris (FR), Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ (NL), and Konzerthaus Berlin (DE). 

Upcoming projects include Earths to Come in 360° for the Venice Biennale, mad scramble for crumbs, a newly devised opera for Opera Saratoga, Metahaven’s new film The Feeling Sonnets, and works for flutist Claire Chase, pianist James McVinnie, and cellist Andrew Yee with Roomful of Teeth. inti is the recipient of the Lotos Foundation Prize, ASCAP Foundation Fred Ho Award, National Sawdust Hildegard Award, and residency fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks, Civitella Ranieri, Juilliard Summer Percussion, and Music at Copland House.