Zara Ali

Zara Ali (b. 1995) is a composer and multimedia artist. Her music is characterized by carefully woven microtonal harmonies, close attention to tone color, and translation of structural concepts (geometry, kinetics, temporality) into physical sound. Her music has been performed in Europe, North America, and Asia, with notable recent concert performances at the Royaumont, Archipel, Yellow Barn, and Seoul International Computer Music festivals. She received her B.A. from Columbia University in 2018. Her primary teachers at Columbia were Zosha di Castri, Georg F. Haas, and David Bird. She is currently pursuing her master’s in music composition in Germany with Mark Barden at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold.