The Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC has awarded a 2024 Summer Music Grant to inti figgis-vizueta for the new album “Rothko plays inti figgis-vizueta”.

inti figgis-vizueta is a composer and educator who works to reconcile historical aesthetics and experimental practices with trans & Indigenous futures. Described as a “rising new music star” (LA Times), with “smooth and serrated melodies” (New York Times), and “wrought from a language we’d do well to learn” (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, Aspen Music Festival, Ojai Music Festival, Spoleto Music Festival, 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 for Opera Saratoga, Metahaven’s 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.

Rothko plays inti figgis-vizueta is a collection of string quartets written over the past six years, performed and recorded by The Rothko String Quartet. Commissioned by long-established groups such as the Kronos Quartet, Attacca Quartet, JACK Quartet, and Spektral Quartet, these works showcase new experimentations with the classic ensemble. Inspiration for these quartets ranges from Andean (South American Indigenous) cosmologies to the 17-year life cycles of Brood X cicadas to the risky relationships of early internet culture. These works showcase various approaches to extended, graphic, and aleatoric notations that inspire spontaneous improvisation and variability in each performance. As figgis-vizueta’s first full-length feature, the album will feature a new commission from Rothko and presents the unique opportunity for emergence of deeper musical patterns across the many years of the featured works.

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