Her music hailed as “ravishing and engulfing” (The New York Times) and named a “Rising Star” by BBC Music Magazine, Gity Razaz composes music that ranges from concert solo pieces to large symphonic works. Recent highlights include Methuselah (In Chains of Time) commissioned by League of American Orchestras for San Diego Symphony under the direction of Rafael Payare; a commission for MacArthur Award-winning cellist Alisa Weilerstein and her ground-breaking "Fragments" project; a commission from BBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sakari Oramo for the prestigious Last Night of the BBC Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall; Flowing Down the Widening Rings of Being, a song cycle for Israeli Chamber Project and Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman based on poetry of Rumi and Rainer Maria Rilke; and an upcoming concerto for flutist Sharon Bezaly and United Strings of Europe. Her compositions have earned numerous awards, such as the Andrew Imbrie Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters that “is given to a composer of demonstrated artistic merit in mid-career.” Ms. Razaz’s debut album, The Strange Highway, which was recently released on Sweden’s preeminent BIS Records, has garnered international praise. As described by BBC Music Magazine, “There’s an uncompromising beauty to these works by the Iranian-born American composer. The opening title work, for cello octet, is a wild rhythmic ride, while the closing Metamorphosis of Narcissus offers some fantastic musical storytelling. Impressive."