GITY RAZAZ

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Hailed by the New York Times as “ravishing and engulfing” and “Uncompromising beauty…Impressive” by the BBC Music Magazine, Gity Razaz’s music ranges from concert solo pieces to large symphonic works. Ms. Razaz’s music has been commissioned and performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the Last Night of the BBC Proms, Seattle Symphony, San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera, National Sawdust, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, former cellist of the Kronos Quartet Jeffrey Zeigler, cellist Inbal Segev, violinist Jennifer Koh, League of the American Orchestras, violinist Francesca dePasquale, Metropolis Ensemble, Canada’s National Ballet School, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, New York Choreographic Institute, American Composers Orchestra, and Amsterdam Cello Biennale among others.

Her compositions have earned numerous national and international awards, such as the 2019 Andrew Imbrie Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters that is “is given to a composer of demonstrated artistic merit in mid-career”, the Jerome Foundation award, the Libby Larsen Prize, multiple ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer awards, ASCAP Plus Awards, two consecutive Palmer Dixon Awards for “outstanding composition of the year” from the Juilliard School, to name a few.

Gity’s debut album, “The Strange Highway,” was recently released on Sweden’s historic BIS Records. Ms. Razaz attended The Juilliard School on full scholarship, and received her Bachelor and Master of Music in Composition under the tutelage of Samuel Adler, Robert Beaser and John Corigliano. She is a composition faculty at Mannes School of Music prep division.

Photo: Ronald Andrew Schvarztman