Grants, Awards + Honors

Netherland-American Foundation Cultural Grant Award (2025)
ASCAP Fred Ho Award (2025)
Gaudeamus Award Nominee (2025)
NYSCA Grant 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)

Residencies, Workshops + Fellowships

*asterisk indicates current/upcoming

Pioneer Works - Music Resident (2025)
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

The Lot Radio: Bayonet Records invites Yaz Lancaster (2026)
Operation Bring the Heat: Yaz Lancaster b2b Soo Intoit - Paragon, Brooklyn (2026)
HEAVY HEARTS: medium. + Dreamcrusher trio - Trans-Pecos, Ridgewood (2026)
Dweller Forever: Robert AA Lowe / Yaz Lancaster / Bongowattz - Public Records, Brooklyn (2026)
Critical Hit (solo DJ set) - Trans-Pecos, Ridgewood (2026)
The Poetry Project New Year’s Day Marathon - The Poetry Project (2019-2022, 2025-2026)
Metropolis Ensemble x Forgotten Futures: Yaz Lancaster – 1 Rivington, NYC (2025)
DEBIT / Yaz Lancaster (solo set) – Issue Project Room, Brooklyn (2025)
X Avant Festival XX (solo set) – The Music Gallery, Toronto (2025)
The Lot Radio (solo & medium. b2b sets) – Brooklyn (2025)
Operator Radio: medium. (live) – Rotterdam (2025)
Gaudeamus Festival: medium. & SMASH.duo + Yaz Lancaster – Tivoli Vredenburg: Club 9, Utrecht (2025)
Creative Time x PTP Vision (solo set) – Creative Time, NYC (2025)
DJ Paypal / DJ Manny / medium. (Yaz solo DJ set) / Missy – Mood Ring, Brooklyn (2025)
HEAVY HEARTS Festival – Moment Machine / Ka Baird / COI_N / medium. / Torrestial – Brooklyn (2025)
Nonstop: Body Hack – medium. – Nowadays, Ridgewood (2025)
Mourning [A] blkStar / Fatboi Sharif / Yaz Lancaster - TV Eye, Ridgewood (2025)
Moment Machine / Ex.wiish / Yaz Lancaster – Undisclosed Location, Brooklyn (2025)
medium. – Intercomm & Trans-Pecos, Ridgewood (2025)
claire rousay / Yaz Lancaster – TV Eye, Ridgewood (2025)
New Ears Festival: medium. – Fridman Gallery, NYC (2025)
medium. – CuteLab + Hart Bar, Brooklyn; Francis Kite, NYC; Cassette, Ridgewood (2024)
claire rousay (violin/duo) – Porsche SCOPES, Toronto (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)
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)
Mingjia: star, star Album Release Show (violin, voice) - C’mon Everybody, NYC (2024)
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)
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)
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)

Selected Recording Credits

*asterisk indicates upcoming release

Yaz Lancaster: AFTER LP (voice, violin, electronics, production) – PTP (2025)
Charles Gaines: Manifestos 6 “Ben Patterson” (violin/concertmaster) - TBA*
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 current/upcoming projects

*2026: Castle of Our Skins, Contrary Motion

2025: Fifi Zhang, Gaudeamus Festival
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

New York University – Composers’ Forum: medium. Performance + Discussion (2025)
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

Make Music NY - Fellow (2026-present)
HEAVY HEARTS – Founder + Curator (2024-present)
I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, Which Sinfonia, Musicworks, etc. – Contributing Writer (2020-present)

Make Music NY – Community Outreach Fellow (Summer 2025)
people | places | records – Co-Manager (2023-2024)
Sound Off: Music for Bail – Co-Organizer (2023-2024)
Peach Mag - Visual Arts Editor (2020-2023)
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)