Soosan Lolavar is a British- Iranian composer and educator. She has composed electronic and acoustic music for the concert hall, contemporary dance, installation, film, animation and theatre. [1]
Life
Soosan Lolavar was born and raised in London. She holds dual British-Iranian citizenship as her father is Iranian. [2] She studied Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University, Musicology at Oxford University and Composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. [1] In 2015 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Iranian music at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. [3] She teaches Composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. [4] Her research interests centre on ethnomusicology with a particular emphasis on the politics of gender and sexuality, post-colonialism and the music industry and postmodernism in electronic musics. [1] She is researching at City University for a PhD on contemporary composition in Iran. [5]
Works
Lolavar works in both electronic and acoustic sound, and across the genres of concert music, contemporary dance, installation, film, animation and theatre.
Opera
- ID, Please First performed by Pittsburgh Opera April 2017
Theatre, Dance and Film
- Between You and Me: Music for the play by Edward Thomasson (2013)
- Dawn: They Too Circled Warily (2013)
- Music for the film One Shot (2014). [6]
Orchestral
- Aqua Triumphalis (2012)
- Things Come Together (2013)
Vocal
- Mah Didam First performed by the Hermes Experiment, 2016
Chamber & Instrumental
- Fulcrum for solo harp (2013)
- Protect Me From What I Want (2015, London Sinfonietta commission) [7]
- Manic (2016) composed for the Carpe Diem Quartet
- Girl (2017)
Books & Publications
- Embodied Research Through Music Composition and Evocative Life-Writing Routledge, 2023, 112 pages
References
- ^ a b c "Soosan Lolavar". British Music Collection. 15 April 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ^ Ellson, Andrew (2017). "British composer must rethink plans for her opera in Pittsburgh". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ^ "Soosan Lolavar | The Hermes Experiment". www.thehermesexperiment.com. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ^ "Soosan Lolavar | Trinity Laban". www.trinitylaban.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ^ "Soosan Lolavar, PhD Music student". City, University of London. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ^ OneShot, retrieved 2 September 2018
- ^ "All Commissions". London Sinfonietta. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
External links
- Official Website
- Rebecca Lentjes, "5 Questions for Soosan Lolavar", I Care If You Listen, 12 September 2017
- Briony Cartmell, "The opera shining a light on Trump's travel ban", Huck, 25 July 2017
- Routledge Publishing
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