Soosan Lolavar

Soosan Lolavar is a British-Iranian composer and educator. She has composed electronic and acoustic music for the concert hall, contemporary dance, installation, film, animation and theatre.

Life
Soosan Lolavar was born and raised in London. She holds dual British-Iranian citizenship as her father is Iranian. She studied Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University, Musicology at Oxford University and Composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. In 2015 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Iranian music at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She teaches Composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Her research interests centre on ethnomusicology with a particular emphasis on the politics of gender and sexuality, post-colonialism and the music industry and postmodernism in electronic musics. She is researching at City University for a PhD on contemporary composition in Iran.

Works
Lolavar works in both electronic and acoustic sound, and across the genres of concert music, contemporary dance, installation, film, animation and theatre.

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).

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)
 * 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