Gity Razaz

Razaz's music has been performed throughout the United States and internationally, including at Carnegie Hall, National Sawdust, The Jerome L. Greene Space at New York Public Radio, Ballet Moscow, Canada's National Ballet School, Amsterdam Cello Biennale, Pioneer Works, and Le Poisson Rouge, among others. Her first chamber opera, Fault Lines, was commissioned by the Washington National Opera and premiered at the Kennedy Center in 2018 and her Cadenza for the Once Young was featured on BBC Radio 3's programme In Tune.

Gity Razaz began her classical training at the age of seven, and graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees in music composition from The Juilliard School where she studied with John Corigliano, Samuel Adler, and Robert Beaser. She was the composer-in-residence at the inaugural season of National Sawdust from 2016 to 2017. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Corigliano has called her a "unique composer whose 'Middle-Eastern roots have merged with her Western sensibilities to produce music that is both original and startling. She is on her way to becoming a major force in contemporary music.'" Her music has been described by The New York Times as "ravishing and engulfing."

Gity Razaz (born March 22, 1986) is an American composer of Iranian origin. She has written music for symphony orchestra, opera, ballet, chamber ensemble, and solo instrumentalist, as well as pieces with multimedia and electroacoustic elements.