inti figgis-vizueta

Photo by Lila Barth

inti figgis-vizueta (b.1993) is a composer who works to reconcile historical aesthetics and experimental practices with trans & Indigenous futures. Described as an “ever-intriguing, rising new music star” (LA Times), whose “arresting...sparse, beautiful” (NPR Classical) work brings “a sense of true dramatic stakes” (New York Times), inti has been commissioned by leading artists and presenters including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, The Phillips Collection, Kronos Quartet, Attacca Quartet, Rothko String Quartet, and Roomful of Teeth, among many others.

inti is the recipient of the 2026 United States Artists Fellowship and her debut album Music for Transitions will be released on New Amsterdam Records in November 2026. inti’s teachers and mentors include George Lewis, Marcos Balter, Tania León, and Nico Muhly. inti honors her Quichua bisabuela who was the only woman butcher on the plaza central and used to fight men with a machete.

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