Girl (feat. Kelly Lovelady)

The Quietu and The Wire reviews pending.

"a glorious, shifting collage of sound" - BBC Music Magazine

Girl – the new album from composer Soosan Lolavar, conductor Kelly Lovelady and chamber orchestra Ruthless Jabiru – puts diasporic experience at the centre of a uniquely personal soundworld. Lolavar describes her music as striving to "create new forms which are tied to western and Iranian traditions, but not defined by these practices nor reduced to these elements alone".

SOOSAN LOLAVAR

Dr Soosan Lolavar is a British Iranian composer whose music draws on ideas from both western and Iranian traditions. She has been performed across the world, broadcast on BBC television in both the UK and Iran; and on BBC Radio 3, 4 and the World Service. In 2022, Lolavar was awarded the RPS Composer prize and partnered with the Cheltenham Music Festival; and more recently, selected as the British delegation composer for the ISCM World Music Days 2023 Festival in South Africa.

RUTHLESS JABIRU

Ruthless Jabiru is a dynamic chamber orchestra of Australasian musicians in the UK merging contemporary music and Activism in an effort to promote compassion, sustainability and social consciousness.