Tis Kaoru Zamler-Carhart

Tis Kaoru Zamler-Carhart (they/them) is a designer, writer, singer, medievalist, and composer, and in a duo with their son Vitaly Zamler, an archeologist and visual artist. Tis’s compositions encompass opera, dance, theater, chamber, and vocal music, and are widely performed. Recent large-scale work include Textiles, for 50 brass instruments, performed in Versailles, France, in 2022, and stage music for the World Scholar’s Cup, for singers, tape, and stuffed animals, performed to thousands of teenagers across Europe and Asia in 2023. Tis appears as a singer on a number of albums of medieval and contemporary music, including several written for their solo voice, most recently Samn Johnson’s Consolations on the label Innova. Tis’s books are published by Punctum Books, most recently the second edition of The Goths and Other Stories and the upcoming The Diary of Anna Comnena, or the Very Political Adventures of a Transgender Byzantine Princess in African Elevators. Tis & Vitaly’s visual art is currently on display at Galerie Mhaata in Brussels, Belgium. Tis & Vitaly’s research focuses on the archeology of interior spaces, particularly households. Recent projects investigate design strategies and material lifecycles in a Rwandan village and in abandoned pre-war apartments in Poland. Tis has a polyamorous relationship with academia and has taught various subjects at various institutions, including medieval music and Latin at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, The Netherlands, music history at Mannes School of Music, medieval literature at Lang College, and transdisciplinary design at Parsons School of Design in New York.