MATA Festival Panelists Bios Inti Figgis-Vizueta inti figgis-vizueta (b.1993) is a composer who works to reconcile historical aesthetics and experimental practices with trans & Indigenous futures. Described as an “ever-intriguing, rising new music star” (LA Times), whose “arresting...sparse, beautiful” (NPR Classical) work brings “a sense of true dramatic stakes” (New York Times), inti has been commissioned and performed by leading artists including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Trickster Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, Attacca Quartet, Rothko Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, organist James McVinnie, pianist Adam Tendler, violinist Jennifer Koh, and cellists Andrew Yee and Jay Campbell, among many Others. inti is the recipient of the 2026 United States Artists Fellowship, Lotos Foundation Prize, ASCAP Fred Ho Award, National Sawdust Hildegard Award, Café Royal Foundation Music Award, and residency fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks, Civitella Ranieri, and Music at Copland House. Her debut album Music for Transitions will be released on New Amsterdam Records in 2026. inti’s teachers and mentors include Marcos Balter, Tania León, George Lewis, and Nico Muhly. inti honors her Quichua bisabuela who was the only woman butcher on the plaza central and used to fight men with a machete.
Lauren Radnofsky Lauren Radnofsky is founding co-artistic/executive director and cellist of Ensemble Signal. In Radnofsky’s triple role, she is responsible for program curation, general management, and also serves as the main producer, in addition to being a regular performer in the ensemble. Under her leadership, she has overseen Signal distinguish itself as an ensemble of exceptional versatility, its range of activities including over 350 performances, ten recordings, and numerous premieres since 2008. She has performed as cellist in addition to producing/managing projects for Ensemble Signal presented by venues and festivals including Lincoln Center Festival, Carnegie Hall, LA Phil/Walt Disney Concert Hall, BIG EARS, The Shed, Cal Performances, Washington Performing Arts, The Library of Congress, Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, Ojai Music Festival, The Guggenheim Museum (NY), EMPAC, NPR Tiny Desk Concerts, and the Bang on a Can Marathon and LONG PLAY. As a cellist with Signal, Radnofsky has worked with composers including Hans Abrahamsen, Luca Francesconi, Michael Gordon, Oliver Knussen, Helmut Lachenmann, David Lang, George Lewis, Hilda Paredes, Steve Reich, Kaija Saariaho and Julia Wolfe. She has performed as cellist with Signal in the world premiere of Steve Reich’s Reich/Richter 129 times as part of the Shed’s Reich Richter Pärt project, the US premieres of Reich’s Runner, and the world premieres of Hilda