Dr Soosan Lolavar (IR, UK) composer and educator. She composes electronic and acoustic music for the concert hall, contemporary dance, installation, film, animation and theatre. Her music has been performed worldwide and broadcast on BBC television in both the UK and Iran as well as played several times on BBC Radio 3. Having studied Iranian classical music, with the help of a Fulbright Scholarship 2015-16, her music draws on ideas from both Western and Iranian traditions.
Among her many degrees in music and social and political sciences, her PhD of City University of London project consists of a portfolio of compositions and 60,000 word thesis entitled “Auto-ethnography and Composition as Epistemologies for Reconciling Double- Consciousness: an Interrogation of Hybridity and Diaspora.
