Sarah Davachi Presented by The Lab

Sarah Davachi will play Grace Cathedral’s 7,466-pipe Aeolian-Skinner, one of the first American classic style organs and among the largest organs in the West.

Davachi (b. 1987, Canada) is a composer and performer whose work is concerned with the close intricacies of timbral and temporal space. In addition to her acclaimed recorded output, Davachi has toured extensively alongside artists such as Grouper, Ellen Arkbro, Oren Ambarchi, William Basinski, Catherine Lamb, Aaron Dilloway, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Michael Pisaro, Loren Connors, Áine O’Dwyer, David Rosenboom, Arnold Dreyblatt, and filmmaker Paul Clipson. Commissioned projects include large-scale works for the London Contemporary Orchestra among many others and her work has been presented in the UK, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Poland, Finland, Spain, Japan, Australia, Canada, and the US. In 2020 she founded Late Music, an imprint within the partner labels division of Warp Records. She holds a master’s degree in electronic music and recording media from Mills College in Oakland, California. Davachi is currently a doctoral candidate in musicology at UCLA, focusing on timbre, phenomenology, and critical organology, and is based in Los Angeles, California.