Inga Chinilina is a multimedia composer with concert pieces ranging from solo to orchestral compositions, alongside works for dance, film, and installations. She sees music as an act of translation, a concept she explores in both her academic and creative work.

This conceptual framework drives her creative and research practice, which investigates how cultural context shapes our perception of sound, often translating personal stories and everyday auditory experiences into sonic expressions that reflect on immigration, womanhood, and the environment.

Her music has been performed by leading ensembles including ICE, Dal Niente, Yarn/Wire, and Talea, and presented at festivals such as MATA (NYC), the Composers Conference, ClarinetFest (Dublin), Zeitströme Tage für aktuelle Musik (Darmstadt), the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, and Mise-En (NYC). Her work has been recognized through awards and commissions including winning the Flute New Music Competition and Prisms Festival, and a forthcoming Fromm Foundation commission featuring the Switch Ensemble in 2027.

Inga is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota; she holds a BM in Composition and Jazz Piano Performance from Berklee College of Music, an MFA in Theory and Composition from Brandeis University, and a PhD in Music and Multimedia Composition at Brown University.