Composer

Soosan Lolavar is a British-Iranian composer, sound artist and educator whose work spans the genres of concert music, installation, film, dance, animation and theatre.

Her work has been performed at the Royal Festival Hall, the National Maritime Museum, the ICA, the LSE New Academic Building, the Jacqueline Du Pré Music Centre, the Bonnie Bird Theatre and Circus Space.

In 2013 she was selected as one of two Embedded composers in residence at the Southbank Centre, with the aim of writing a piece for the newly refurbished organ that will form part of the Pull Out All the Stops Festival in March and April 2014. Moreover, in 2012 she won the John Halford Prize for Composition awarded by Ian Pace and was selected as part of the Adopt a Composer scheme funded by PRS for Music Foundation and run by Making Music, in partnership with Sound and Music and BBC Radio 3.

She holds degrees in Social and Political Sciences (University of Cambridge), Musicology (University of Oxford) and Composition (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance), where she received the Gladys Bratton and TCM Trust Scholarships 2011-2012 and the TCL Scholarship 2012-2013. Her research interests include the politics of gender and sexuality, post-colonialism and the music industry and postmodernism in electronic musics. She has worked as an Assistant Lecturer at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, leading a course on music, gender and sexuality and at City Lit Adult Education college where she teaches: music appreciation; music analysis and criticism; and opera appreciation for beginners.