Zara Teicher is a Detroit-based musician, composer, and visual artist. Zara has premiered many new written works for the Horn and is also a fluid improviser. She currently teaches “Music for Artists”, an experimental music course, at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the Critical Studies department.  Zara has performed with a many ensembles including Grammy nominated LA-based ensemble Wild Up, experimental brass group Trio Kobayashi (Los Angeles), the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, and the American Youth Symphony. She has been a musician in residence at the University of California San Diego and the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles). She has performed at the Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music (Germany), the Klangspuren Festival for New Music (Austria), and Los Angeles venues REDCAT, The Broad Stage, and Zipper Concert Hall. Zara has shown work at the Detroit Institute of Arts Film Theater and Strange Beautiful Music Detroit. She performs around the Detroit area and has played at venues that include Trinosophes, Cliff Bell’s, Other Tones Music Series, the Ford House, the Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival, and Third Place Music Festival in Ann Arbor.

Zara has an MFA in Music from California Institute of the Arts where she studied improvisation with Wadada Leo Smith. She has a BM in Music from Northwestern University where she studied Horn with Gail Williams and also studied Art Theory and Practice. Zara is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy. 

A yoga practitioner and teacher, she trained at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch in New York. One of Zara’s favorite activities is watching freighter ships on the Detroit river with her two kids.