Kitty Xiao is an Australian composer and electronic artist living in New York. Her work is concerned with questions that arise from the body, the experience it carries, and its movement within social landscapes. Her music involves electroacoustic works, and solo electronics that investigate timbral gesture, corporeal experience and reimaginings of space.
Her music has been performed by Ensemble Modern, Mivos Quartet, The Callithumpian Consort, Ensemble Apex, Australian National Academy of Music, Switch~ Ensemble, Dither Quartet, OSSIA New Music, line upon line percussion, Transient Canvas, Syzygy Ensemble, Elysium Dance, Brighton Fashion Week, and has appeared at the cresc…Biennale for Contemporary Music, International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR), Melbourne Festival, Adelaide Festival, Apex Festival, The ANAM Set Festival, amongst others.
Her music has been released through Clan Analogue, Move Records, and she is represented by the Australian Music Centre. She is recipient of the 2022 APRA Professional Development Award (AU), 2021 Sounds Australia Export Stimulus Program (AU), 2020 Belle S. Gitelman Award (US), 2019 Howard Hanson Large Ensemble Prize (US) and is an Alfred Kitchin scholar (UK).
Xiao is a doctoral candidate in Music Composition at Columbia University, and a Teaching Assistant at the Computer Music Center. Her composition mentors include George Lewis, Georg Friedrich Haas, Zosha Di Castri, Brad Garton, Seth Cluett, David Liptak, Robert Morris and Anthony Lyons.