Grants, Awards + Honors

Gaudeamus Award Nominee (2025)
NYSCA Grantee for ourselves in the other with International Contemporary Ensemble (2024)
The Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be Finalist (2022)
Underblong’s Inaugural Blongprize for “Ratios” and “Put simply, it’s this way” (2021)
Anti-Social Music Tiny Fund Grant (2021)
New York University Global Pathways Scholar (2015)
New York University Dean’s List (2015-2018)
New York University Steinhardt Scholarship (2014-2018)

Residencies, Workshops + Fellowships

*asterisk indicates current/upcoming

Avaloch Farm Music Institute - Residency (2024)
Asian Arts Initiative - Sound Type Music Writers Cohort (2024)*
Brooklyn Youth Chorus - Composer-in-Residence (2023-2024)
Avaloch Farm Music Institute - Residency w/Bearthoven (2023)
The Poetry Project - Foraging for Radical Intimacies Workshop w/Angel Dominguez (2023)
National Sawdust Hildegard Commission (2022-2023)
Bang on a Can Summer Institute - Composer Fellow (2022)
Transient Canvas - Composer Fellow (2021)
SPLICE Institute - Fellow (2021)
Copland House CULTIVATE - Fellow (2021)
Montreal Creative Music Lab - Fellow (2021)
National Sawdust & Center for Ballet and the Arts - Toulmin Creator (2021)
OCAD University: Contingencies of Care - Resident (2020)
National Sawdust Digital Discovery Festival - New Works Commission (2020)
New Amsterdam Composers Lab - Participant (2020)
NEXT Festival for Emerging Artists - Violin Fellow (2020)
Sō Percussion Summer Institute - Composer Fellow (2019)
Nief Norf Summer Festival - Violin Fellow (2019)
New York University - Advanced Poetry Workshop w/Terrance Hayes (2018)

Selected Performances

*asterisk indicates upcoming

medium. [Yaz Lancaster + gg200bpm] – CuteLab, Brooklyn; Francis Kite, NYC; Cassette, Ridgewood (2024)
PTP Vision Home Gathering (solo set) – Undisclosed Location, Brooklyn (2024)
Yaz Lancaster Summer Tour P3 (solo set) – Living Gallery, Brooklyn; Trans-Pecos, Queens (2024)
medium. [Yaz Lancaster + gg200bpm] – Nublu Classic, NYC (2024)
Asia Stewart: Fabric Softener (violin + sound design + direction) - The Shed, NYC (2024)
Yaz Lancaster Summer Tour P2 (solo set) - Tritriangle, Chicago; Sleepwalk NYC, Brooklyn (2024)
Soundcake: Sapphira Cristál & Monet Exchange (violin) – Lincoln Center Damrosch Park, NYC (2024)
Yaz Lancaster Summer Tour P1 (solo set) - Tranzac, Toronto; Resource, Minneapolis; Sisters, Brooklyn (2024)
Charles Gaines: Manifestos 6 “Ben Patterson” (violin) - MoMA, NYC (2024)
PSNY: Happening (violin, electronics) - Shapeshifter Lab, NYC (2024)
BlackBox Festival: Lucy McNight’s “fated joy” + Lancaster’s “wd2” (violin, voice) - Shapeshifter Lab, NYC (2024)
Mingjia: star, star Album Release Show (violin, voice) - C’mon Everybody, NYC (2024)
MIT Sounding + Evan Ziporyn: POPPY@88 (violin) - Virtual (2023)
MATA Festival: Molly Joyce’s “The End” (violin) - Roulette Intermedium, NYC (2023)
Yaz Lancaster: Hildegard Commission Premiere (violin) - National Sawdust, NYC (2023)
J. Satterwhite: An Eclectic Dance to the Music of Time (violin) – David Geffen Hall, NYC (2022)
Intersection Festival: THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME (tenor pan, violin) - CMC, Toronto + Virtual (2022)
Asia Stewart: Fabric Softener (violin + sound design) - Coffey St. Studio, NYC (2022)
The Poetry Project’s 55th Anniversary Gala Afterparty (violin) - The Poetry Project, NYC (2022)
Freddie June, Tariq Al-Sabir, Sable E. Smith: Belly of the Wail (violin) Swiss Institute, NYC (2022)
The Poetry Project New Year’s Day Marathon - The Poetry Project (2019-2022)
Interstitial Space (solo set) - Arraymusic, Toronto (2021)
Emergents Series (solo set) - The Music Gallery, Toronto (2021)
ContaQt with Evan Ziporyn: Eno’s “Discreet Music” (violin) - Parkdale Pirate Radio 87.5 (2020)
Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival (violin) - Ukrainian Museum, NYC (2020)
Skiffle Steel Orchestra (tenor pan) - Trinidad and Tobago Panorama (2020)
Andy Akiho Portrait Concert (violin, soprano, tenor pan) - New York University (2019)
Foxes in Fiction with Emily Yacina (violin) - Public Records, NYC (2019)
SOUND Symposium: ONSOUND (violin/viola) - St. Johns, NL, Canada (2019)
CASYM Steel Orchestra (tenor pan) - Brooklyn Panorama (2019)
SARIAN (violin) - House of Yes, Womens’ Space, Mercury Lounge, Spectrum, Pianos; NYC (2018-19)

Selected Recording Credits

*asterisk indicates upcoming release

Josie Brechner: The Last Days of Friendship Valley (Original Game Soundtrack) LP (violin) - Visager Audio (2024)*
daywaiter: “willowed” (violin) - daywaiter (2024)
Various Artists: comp.01 LP - people places (2023)
Josie Brechner: The Tartarus Key (Original Game Soundtrack) LP (violin) - Visager Audio (2023)
Yaz Lancaster: AmethYst LP (voice, violin, production) - people places (2023)
Nyokabi Kariũki: FEELING BODY LP (voice, violin) - cmntx (2023)
Miss Grit: Follow the Cyborg LP (violin) - Mute (2023)
Massa Nera: Derramar | Querer | Borrar LP (violin) - Zegema Beach (2022)
BAKUDI SCREAM: FINAL SKIN LP (violin) - Cantaloupe Music (2022)
Michael Denis O`Callaghan: Drowning and What Comes Afterwards… LP (violin) - cmntx (2022)
this place is actually the worst: “First Name” on compilation 2 (violin) - no funeral (2020)
laydøwn: one in one (vol. 1 & 2) EP’s - people places (2020)
Massa Nera: “Nunca Seremos Lo Mismo” on Hymnes aux d​é​sarrois de la peau (violin) - Multi-Label Split (2019)
Erich Bargainer: “The Veneer Melts” on in a (once-)blossomed place (violin) - people places (2019)

Commissioners

*asterisk indicates upcoming projects

*2025: BlackBox Ensemble, Castle of Our Skins
*2024: International Contemporary Ensemble, Hub New Music/Black Mountain College, Verdigris Ensemble, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, McKenna Blenk, Thin Edge New Music/Ensemble Paramirabo, Minnesota Philharmonic

2023: Bearthoven, Hart Middle School, Depauw School of Music, National Sawdust, Opera Philadelphia, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
2022: Yoshi Weinberg, Beth Morrison Projects, BRKFST Dance, 21C Guitar, Austin Wulliman
2021: A Far Cry, Copland House, Transient Canvas, Ninth Planet, Modern Marimba, Kate Amrine, Violetta M. Norrie, Deepa Goonetilleke, Yang Chen
2020: National Sawdust/JACK Quartet, Contemporaneous, Shepherdess, Ensemble Decipher, Bass Players for Black Composers, Else if Else, Vex Duo, India Yeshe Gailey, Devan Jaquez, Jamie Monck
2019: Western Carolina University, 28/78 New Music Ensemble, Margins Guitar Collective
2018: Andrew Noseworthy, Washington Squared, Keaton Garrett

Readings, Discussions + Conferences

COMPOSERS NOW – Impact Series Presentation (2023)
The Poetry Project – Spring 2023 Workshop Reading (2023)
Brooklyn Rail New Social Experiment #674 – Poetry Reading (2022)
Beth Morrison Projects – Song Cycles Discussion, Post-Concert Q&A (2022)
Bang on a Can Summer Festival - Composer Seminar, Poetry Reading (2022)
A Far Cry - Music & Activism Panel (2021)
New England Conservatory - BSU Fellow Workshop & Discussion (2021)
MusCan Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences - Recital-Lecture (2021)

Selected Work Experience

people | places | records – Co-Manager (2023-present)
I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, Which Sinfonia, Composer Mag, Musicworks – Contributing Writer (2020-present)

Sound Off: Music for Bail – Co-Organizer (2023-2024, affiliate*)
Peach Mag - Visual Arts Editor (2020-2023, on hiatus*)

Luna Composition Lab - Mentor + Creative Council Member (2021-2022)
ETHEL’s Foundation for the Arts - Administrative + Mgmt Assistant (2021-2022)
New York University - Adjunct Violin Faculty (2019-2020)
Foundation for Contemporary Arts - Development Intern (2019)
The Poetry Project - Archives and Operations Intern (2017-2019)
WNYU Radio - “Not Just Clara” Creator + Host (2016-2018)

Misc. Experience

NJ Coalition Against Sexual Assault: Creating Transformative Spaces - Attendee (2022)