I am thrilled to have won the Frances Densmore Prize for my article “Orientation through Instruments: The ʿūd, the Palestinian Home, and Kamīlyā Jubrān” in the world of music (new series), vol. 8, no. 1, 2019. This prize is awarded annually by the American Musical Instrument Society for the most Read more…
I will be leading another workshop in Collaborative Sonic Art, this time for the Connect: Resound Learning Festival put on by NYMAZ, the North Yorkshire Music Action Zone. As a whole, the festival is an exploration and a celebration of the music education sector’s diverse approaches to online learning. It will Read more…
A wry hearing of a kitchen in 1950s England
Do you want to study world music traditions? To play and sing music of the Middle East? Of India? My new Music Boat may be for you. It brings together a team of outstanding musicians in the classcial traditions of Asia, in search of new ways of sharing repertoire in a Read more…
Lockdowns have led many of us have become more aware of how sound and silence shape our lives. We have also been obliged to spend less time making music together. Would you like to make music with the things around you? With the sounds you hear? Perhaps you don’t consider Read more…
My compositional work had great support this month as I was privelaged to have a residency at The Red House, formerly the home of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. I stayed in Cosy Nook, the cottage of Nellie Hudson, Britten and Pears’ housekeeper. It had a beautiful acoustic, and I Read more…
During the first Covid-19 lockdown I launched Music Boat, a collaboration with outstanding musicians in the classcial traditions of Asia, in search of new ways of sharing repertoire in a rapidly-changing world. We are a collaborating team of Europe-based musicians hailing from Mexico, Germany, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Spain Read more…
A lockdown event: a lovingly-selected programme emphasising the beauty in hidden voices and stories of women, taking listeners on a journey from Afghanistan to Sicily with stops in Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Greece.
As part of the SOAS Summer School I am thrilled to lead an experimental online course in modal creative work