Born in South Africa and based in New York, composer, pianist, and producer Kathleen Tagg moves seamlessly between musical genres and styles. She studied at the University of Cape Town, Mannes School of Music, and Manhattan School of Music, where she received the Helen Cohn Award as an outstanding doctoral graduate. She has performed at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and 92NY in New York, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, or the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, but is equally at home in non-conventional spaces and theatrical settings around the world. Recent compositions include the song cycle This Be Her Verse on words by Lila Palmer for soprano Golda Schultz and pianist Jonathan Ware, which was heard at the Pierre Boulez Saal in 2022, and Please Dream: In His Words for the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival. Her works also have been performed at the festivals of Lucerne and Aix-en-Provence, the Cologne Philharmonie, and the Melbourne Opera House, among other venues. She has collaborated with clarinetist David Krakauer for many years as co-artistic director of their joint label Table Pounding Music. At the Pierre Boulez Saal, the duo performed the immersive multimedia concert Breath & Hammer in 2019 and again in 2022. Kathleen Tagg was a fellow of the Dramatist Guild of America, an Opera Composition Fellow at the American Lyric Theater, and teaches piano at the Columbia University New York.