Sarah Davachi (b. 1987, Canada) is a composer and performer whose work is concerned with the close intricacies of timbral and temporal space, utilizing extended durations and alternate tuning systems to underscore gradual variations in texture, harmonic complexity, intonation, and psychoacoustic phenomena.  Her compositions span solo, chamber ensemble, and acousmatic formats, incorporating a wide range of both acoustic and electronic instrumentation.  Similarly informed by minimalist and longform structures, early music concepts of intervallic relation and affect, as well as experimental production practices of the studio environment, in her sound is an intimate and patient experience that reconfigures perceptions of the familiar and the distant.

​In addition to her acclaimed recorded output, Davachi has toured and performed extensively; her work has been presented internationally by Southbank Centre (London), Barbican Centre (London), Radio France (Paris), Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), Organ Reframed (London), The Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Getty Museum (Los Angeles), The Academy Museum (Los Angeles), The Broad Museum (Los Angeles), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), Orgelpark (Amsterdam), Honen-in Temple (Kyoto), Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam), Église Saint-Eustache (Paris), St Martin-in-the-Fields (London), Temppeliaukio Church (Helsinki), Grace Cathedral (San Francisco), Chiesa di San Luigi dei Francesi (Rome), Église du Gesù (Montréal), Carriageworks (Sydney), and Teatro Cultural Artística (São Paulo), among others.  Her works for chamber and large ensemble have been commissioned and performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Brussels Philharmonic, the London Contemporary Orchestra, Microtub, Quatuor Bozzini, Harmonic Space Orchestra, Apartment House, Ghost Ensemble, Wild Up, Yarn/Wire, Chamber Choir Ireland, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Contemporaneous Ensemble, GBSR Duo, Diapason, Cello Octet Amsterdam, and the Canadian International Organ Competition.  Major recognitions include the Silver Lion award in 2026, given by La Biennale di Venezia, and a Libera award in 2023, given by the American Association of Independent Music.  In 2020 she founded Late Music, an imprint within the partner labels division of Warp Records.

For over a decade, Davachi had the unique opportunity to work for the National Music Centre in Canada as a researcher and interpreter of their collection of acoustic and electronic keyboard instruments.  She holds a master's degree in electronic music from Mills College and a doctoral degree in musicology from UCLA (with a dissertation on timbre, phenomenology, and critical organology), and is based in Los Angeles, California, USA.