Olga Pozzi-Escot Zapata (born 1 October 1933) is a Peruvian-born American composer, music theorist, and faculty member at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.
[3] At the end of 1953, she emigrated to the United States to attend Reed College in Portland, Oregon, becoming a citizen three years later.
[4] She has written over thirty articles (mostly published in her own journal) developing and discussing the relationship between music and mathematics.
Her works are recorded on Delos, Neuma, Spectrum, Leo, Music & Arts and Centaur labels and published by Publication Contact International.
Pozzi Escot resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her partner, composer and theorist Robert Cogan (1930–2021).