Zara Teicher is a Detroit-based musician, composer, and visual artist.

Zara is currently the Resident Artist at Smith Shop Detroit. She has taught a seminar and led workshops in experimental music at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the Program in Critical Studies and has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois-Chicago department of Art History. Zara has performed with many ensembles including Grammy nominated LA-based ensemble Wild Up, the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, the American Youth Symphony, as well as many experimental and improvised music groups including her current trio, There Is No Hill. 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, Trinosophes, and Strange Beautiful Music Detroit. She performs around the Detroit area and has played at venues that include Cranbrook Art Museum, Trinosophes, Moondog Cafe, 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. Zara is also a proud mother of two kids.