About Me

Hello and welcome to my website! My name is Thalia Pitti (they/them pronouns) and to put it simply, I’m a musician. To put it more complexly, I’m a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and a composer. As of winter 2022, I’m a junior at Vassar College, where I’m pursuing my BA in English with a correlate sequence (VC’s equivalent of a minor) in Music Composition. As a literature nerd and music lover, I’m truly getting the best of both worlds!

I’ve explored several styles of writing, but the mediums I am most confident in is music. As of January 2022, I’ve published four albums and two EPs with my original music on it: I Am Your Astronaut, Surprise!, The Steinbeck EP, Call it History, New Shades of Blue, and Songs For Afterhours Lovers, a concept album inspired by Sally Rooney’s novels, Normal People and Conversations with Friends.Now that I’ve brought up my love of Sally Rooney, you can probably tell that my loves of music and literature intersect. These loves also feed one another in my creative processes as a singer-songwriter and story writer. One exchange between characters in a novel or one line from a song can set me off on a creative frenzy. Although several of my songs borrow influences from sometimes hyper-specific characteristics of a novel, I don’t necessarily want them to be tethered to the novels that inspired them. I want them to exist in a space where they are open to individual interpretation. But, on the other hand, I have always been fascinated with film scores and soundtracks. I have even curated my own for the books I’ve read, choosing songs that correspond with the physical atmosphere at hand or characters’ internal monologues. I checked a significant item off of my bucket list in the summer 2021 when I scored Delilah Napier and Lucy Powers’ short film The Compound, which went on to win the Special Jury’s Award for the Best Short Film at the 2021 Chelsea Film Festival.

In addition to music and literature, some of the themes that interest me as a writer are queerness, relationships between siblings, friendship, education, art, radical leftist politics, and childhood. These topics have woven their way into many of my songs, too.

I am also a member of Vassar’s oldest active sketch comedy group, Happily Ever Laughter (everybody calls us “HEL”). I have written and appeared in several sketches that have been performed by the group, including “The Last Straight Person at Vassar,” “Exchange Student,” and “Jeff Bezos and Friends.” These sketches have been posted on the HEL YouTube channel.

I want to be involved in projects that would allow me to incorporate both my love of writing and my love of music. Some of the jobs that interest me in the long term are music journalist, film scoring, and music supervisor for television and film.