Lydia Kakabadse (born 1955) is a British composer of vocal, choral and chamber music. [1] Her musical style is tonal and modal with influences from chant and early polyphony, Orthodox liturgical music and other non-western music. [2] [3] It also incorporates the Arabic scale with traditional Western harmonies. [4]
Her choral piece Odyssey was commissioned by the Hellenic Institute of Royal Holloway, University of London. [5] [6] In 2015 she was commissioned to write a choral piece, I Remember [3] by her old school, Forest Preparatory School in Altrincham, for performance at an inter-school music event. [7] Two short pieces were performed at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral in 2019, [8] and her chamber work Concertato was performed at the Chatsworth Arts Festival later the same year. [9] Her chamber work Russian Tableaux was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 to mark International Women's Day in 2015 and 2017. [10]
Kakabadse's work includes: [11]
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