Soosan Lolavar
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Soosan Lolavar is a British-Iraniancomposer 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 study Iranian music at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.[3] She formerly taught Composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and Goldsmiths, University of London.[4] She has a PhD in Music from City, University of London and her research interests centre on ethnomusicology with a particular emphasis on auto-ethnography and the politics of diaspora, hybridity and double-consciousness.[1]
Works
Lolavar works in both electronic and acoustic sound, and across the genres of concert music, contemporary dance, installation, film, animation and theatre. In 2024 Lolavar received an Ivor Novello Award nomination at The Ivors Classical Awards. "Undone" was nominated in the Best Chamber Ensemble Composition category.[5]
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
- ^ abc"Soosan Lolavar". City, University of London. 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.
- ^Taylor, Mark (15 October 2024). "Nominations for The Ivors Classical Awards 2024 announced". The Ivors Academy. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
- ^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
