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Joelle Khoury Pianist/Composer (Classical Music and Jazz). +961 3812959; Jg19@Aub.Edu.Lb; Joellekhou@Gmail.Com Joelle Khoury Pianist/Composer (classical music and jazz). +961 3812959; [email protected]; [email protected] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joelle_Khoury Studies: Musicology and Economics, BA, George Mason University, Va., USA. Masters in philosophy, Université St. Joseph, Beirut. Thesis titled “Etre et Musique” (Being and Music). PHD in philosophy, Lebanese University. Thesis titled: “Théâtralité et désir de mort créateur chez Gilles Deleuze” (Theatricality and creative death desire in Gilles Deleuze’s writings). Piano diploma, Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music. Teaching: Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music: piano and composition (for 21 years, ongoing). Coordinator of contemporary music projects (concerts, workshops…etc.) American University of Beirut: 1- Survey of Western Music; 2- Listening to jazz; 3- Philosophy and Music (CVSP 295X) LAU: Survey of Western Music, 2 semesters. Saint Joseph University, Université pour tous: 1 semester, music appreciation. Articles, Conferences & Worshops “Time Goes One Way” (against classification of art). Heinrich Boll Foundation Lebanon www.boell-meo.org “About women composers in the Arab world” (Freemuse conference) 2005 http://freedimensional.org/about/index.html “My Body Myself and I”, conference in the company of Arab cultural journalists, (about a crisis of subjectivity throughout the history of music) Zawaya: 2006. “Bach/Leibniz/Kandinsky: the Unique and the Multiple” conference, Lebanese National Conservatory, December 2007. Of Arab Composers Today, commissioned by 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 Carmen of Bizet, inspired by Nietzsche. Conference given in 2017, at the Lebanese University Doctoral School. Of sounds and letters: conference given to the doctoral students in literature at the Lebanese University Doctoral School (October 2018). Monthly lectures around specific musical topics, ASSABIL Public Library, Monot. Extra-muros artist residencies (as composer and/or pianist): Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris. 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 the silent opera Women’s Palaces. Discography: 4 CDs + compositions included on various albums: 1,2 Tumbling Up (including a poem by Langston Hughes) and Is It So!, 2 jazz albums, In-Version, the Joelle Khoury Quintet. Joelle Khoury: piano and composition; 2 saxophones, bass and drums. 3- Music and Poetry: 11 chamber orchestra and voice pieces, based on German Romantic poetry and texts by 2 Lebanese poets (Goethe, Heine Novalis, Rilke, Nadia Tuéini, George Chehadé). Sponsored by the Lebanese National Conservatory and Goethe Institut Beirut. Joelle Khoury: piano and composition; Harout Fazlian: conductor; Lylia Dragomir: soprano. 4- Dream She Is, a 55mn opera monodrama in Arabic. Chamber orchestra and electronics, commissioned by Quart de ton, Belgium. Joelle Khoury: piano, composition and text excerpts from poems by Lebanese poet Jacques Asswad; Fadia Tomb El Hage: voice; Harout Fazlian: conductor. It relates the emotional transfiguration of a woman who decides, in a sort of anguished dream state, to leave the world, her roots, people, and discover her inner self; she then is hit by blue sun rays that remind her that she is all love, and thus returns home, but she is no longer the same woman. Performed in Beirut (ensemble Fragments, sponsored by Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World), Switzerland (ensemble Tag), and Austria (Esterhazy Palace, Haydn Hall, by Gidon Kremer’s prestigious Kremerata Baltica orchestra). 5- Arabian Fantasy in Blue: commissioned by The MeiningerTrio (Germany) and Bayerishe Rundfunk. Naxos Record Label. https://www.allmusic.com/album/mating-calls-lockrufe- mw0002851987 6- Anta al waheed, commissioned by Ateek Ensemble for an album portraying several composers from the Arab world and sponsored by AFAC, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture. Based on a text by Al- Hallaj. More compositions including some with video, electroacoustic music, painting, text and dance performance: Electroésie filmed live performance based on Lebanese poet Antoine Boulad’s book “poésie”, with Kinda Hassan (video art), Dima Hajjar (painting), 3 actresses, Joelle Khoury (composition, sound track, staging and live piano), cello. Jokari project sponsored by the Lebanese Ministry of Culture in the occasion of Beirut Capital of the Book, 2009. Based on poetry by Etel Adnan, Jad Hatem and Ritta Baddoura. Kinda Hassan: video art; Caroline Hatem: dance and choreography; Joelle Khoury: composition, sound track and live piano. Rech-Maya, sound track for Alice Massabki’s choreography, based on a book by Eveline Boustros, recounting an honor crime committed by a son against his young mother whose prearranged marriage led to adultery while the Turks led the Lebanese citizens to famine during the 1st world war. Project sponsored by the Lebanese Ministry of Culture in the occasion of Beirut Capital of the Book, 2009. Palais de Femmes (Women’s Palaces). A multimedia work including a sound track constituted of 5 actresses’ voices speaking in 5 different languages – Arabic, French, English, Spanish and German), live piano and dance. The piece is based on the lives and works of numerous women, mainly artists, who often ended up paying the price for their endeavor by submitting to alcohol, madness, depression or suicide (ex: Virginia Woolf, Camille Claudel, Sylvia Plath, Marguerite Duras, Romy Scheinder, Nina Simone, Dalida, Barbara, Oum Koulthoum…. etc. The title takes after an institution in Paris called “le palais de la femme”), where women in distress are taken care of by the Salvation Army. Sponsored by: Mission Française, British council and Goethe Institut. Live dance performance: Alexandre Paulikevitch; film: Chaghig Arzoumanian; composition, text and live piano: Joelle Khoury. How Blue the Sun, commissioned by Quart de ton, chamber and voice composition to be released in 2019, in Belgium, 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. Ensemble Fragments. Vers le Soleil Bleu, commissioned by Quart de ton, chamber and voice composition to be released in 2019, in Belgium, as part of a double album dedicated to living Lebanese composers. Text by Nadia Tuéini. Singer: Fadia Tomb El Hage. Ensemble Fragments. Alone Together trio qanun, cello and violin. Commissioned by BR, the Bavarian state radio, Germany. 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, Esterhazy Palace, Austria. A symphonic version of the piece was performed by the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra (Aida Tomb – Ronza: voice). 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 and Würzburg, Germany. A symphonic version of the piece was performed by the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra. (Aida Tom – Ronza: voice). Soliloquy, a 3 movement symphonic work piece composed for and performed by the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra in 2006. Conductor: Harout Fazlian Tidbits, for viola and percussion, commissioned by ensemble Always, premiered in Scotland, Festival du son, November 2, 2018. Will be performed in Beirut in March 2019, as part of a project with the Lebanese National conservatory. Moods, rhythms and changes, for percussion ensemble, cello and piano. Commissioned by Syblema Percussions, Paris. Cry baby cry, chamber orchestra and electronics, commissioned by ensemble Tag, Winterthur, Switzerland. Performed in Villa Strauli. Sponsored by Prohelvetia. AAAH… Graphic notation, based on Virginia Woolf’s last book, Between the acts. Performed at Pierre Abou Khater auditorium, conducted by Harout Fazlian. Concert titled: “John Cage, open composition”. Voice: Katharine Carthright, Fulbright fellow. Sponsored by the American Embassy in Lebanon. How blue the sun, symphonic version, to be performed by the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra, March 8, 2019, during a concert dedicated to women composers. 3ala Dal3ona, 4 hands piano piece based on a Middle Eastern folk song, commissioned by pianists Hasmig Baghdjian and Howard Abel, performed at the Sacred Heart school, Greenwich, USA. .
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