Joelle Khoury, Ph.D. Pianist- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joelle_Khoury Lebanese/American

Languages spoken and written: French, English and Arabic Studies:

Musicology and Economics, BA, George Mason University, Va., USA. Masters in philosophy Université St. Joseph, . Thesis titled “Etre et Musique” (Being and Music). PHD in Philosophy, Lebanese University, thesis titled: Théâtralité et Désir de Mort Créateur chez (Thetricality and creative death desire in Gille Deleuze’s philosophy) Piano diploma, Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music.

Teaching:

Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music: piano and composition (22 years)

American University of Beirut: 1- Survey of Western Music; 2- Listening to jazz; 3- Philosophy and Music (7 years)

Lebanese American University: Survey of Western Music (1 year)

Articles, Conferences & Worshops

Time Goes One Way (against classification of art) www.boell-meo.org

About women in the Arab world (Freemuse conference) 2005 http://freedimensional.org/about/index.html

My Body Myself and I conference in company of the Arab cultural journalists, (about a crisis of subjectivity through the history of the music) Zawaya: 2006.

Bach/Leibniz/Kandinsky: the Unique and the Multiple, conference, Lebanese National Conservatory, December 2007.

Of Arab Composers Today, written for AFAC, the Arab Fund for Culture meeting 2011.

History a Divine Poem: article commissioned by the Lucerne University, relating Bach to Leibniz. for the inauguration of their new department: Music and Theology. Published October 2015 (Grunewald). https://www.amazon.de/Theologie-Noten-Prof-Wolfgang- M%C3%BCller/dp/3786730350 The Dionysian and the Apollonian in Bizet’s Carmen, conference given at the Lebanese University Doctoral School of Philosophy.

Des Lettres et des Notes, conference given to the French Literature doctoral students, relating music (in the form of sounds and notes) to French literary works (different ways and styles of associating and staging text and music).

Monthly lectures on specific musical topics, ASSABIL Public Library Monot.

Extra-muros artist residencies:

Conservatoire de Boulogne Billancourt, France.

Milkwood Artist Residency, in collaboration with Freemuse International, Freedimensional, and Milkwood residencies, Czech republic

Villa Strauli, Switzerland, sponsored by Prohelvetia.

The MacDowell Colony, NH, USA (composing my multimedia work Palais de Femmes (Women’s Palaces).

Discography: 4 CDs:

1,2 Tumbling Up (including a poem by Langston Huguhes) and Is It So!, 2 jazz albums, In-Version, the Joelle Khoury Quintet. Joelle Khoury: piano and composition.

3- Music and Poetry: 11 chamber orchestra and voice pieces, based on German romantic poetry (Goethe, Heine Novalis, Rilke, Nadia Tuéini, George Chehadé). Sponsored by the Lebanese National Conservatory and the Goethe Institut Beirut. Joelle Khoury: piano and composition, Harout Fazlian: conductor.

4- Dream She Is, an 55mn opera monodrama in Arabic. Chamber orchestra and electronics. Joelle Khoury: piano and composition, Fadia Tomb El Hage: voice, Harout Fazlian: conductor. Performed in Beirut, Switzerland and Austria (Esterhazy Palace, Haydn Hall).

5- Arabian Fantasy in Blue: commissioned by The MeiningerTrio (Germany) and Bayerishe Rundfunk. Naxos Record Label.

How Blue the Sun, chamber and voice composition to be released in 2019, as part of a double album dedicated to living Lebanese composers. Text based on a book by Lebanese poet Sabah Zwein. Singer: Fadia Tomb El Hage.

Vers le Soleil Bleu, chamber and voice composition to be released in 2019, as part of a double album dedicated to living Lebanese composers. Text by francophone poet Nadia Tuéini. Singer: Fadia Tomb El Hage. Alone Together trio qanun, cello and violin. Commissioned by BR, the Bavarian state Radio.

Variations on Imaginary Folk Dances, chamber and voice. Commissioned by Kremerata Baltica (the Gidon Kremer orchestra). Based on 4 Middle Eastern folk tunes, performed by Fadia Tomb El Hage at Haydn Hall, Austria, in Furth-Germany and in Beirut by the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra. Soprano: Aida Tomb.

Of Memories, Folks and I, chamber and voice. Commissioned by Kremerata Baltica (the Gidon Kremer orchestra). Based on the Middle Eastern song Ah ya zein. Performed by Fadia Tomb El Hage in Furth, Germany. Also performed by the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra and Aida Tomb.

Soliloquy, 3 movements, composed for and performed by the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra in 2006.

Kam Kanat Zarkaa, based on a poem in Arabic by Sabah Zwein, performed by the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra in March 2018, in the occasion of International Women’s Day.

Various compositions including video, electroacoustic music, painting and dance performances:

Electroésie live performance based on francophone Lebanese poet Antoine Boulad’s book “poésie”, with Kinda Hassan (video art), Dima Hajjar (painting), 3 actresses, cello and piano.

Jokari project sponsored by the Lebanese Ministry of Culture in the occasion of Beirut Capital of the Book. Based on French poetry by Etel Adnan, Jad Hatem and Ritta Baddoura. Kinda Hassan: video art; Caroline Hatem: dance and choreography.

Palais de Femmes Multimedia project in 5 different languages (French, Arabic, English, German and Spanish), based on the lives and works of numerous women artists who often ended up paying the prince for their endeavor by either submitting to alcohol, madness, depression or suicide. Ex: Virginia Woolf, Camille Claudel, Marguerite Duras, Romy Scheinder, Nina Simone, Dalida…etc. Sponsored by: Mission Française Beyrouth, British council and Goethe Institut. Live dance performance: Alexandre Paulikevitch.

Currently working on a new jazz album, Must be so, funded by AFAC, the Arab Fund for Art and Culture, and on an article for a philology magazine, titled A body without organs…said the eye to the ear (based on French author Antonin Artaud).