Lydia Kakabadse

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]

Compositions

Kakabadse's work includes:^[11]

• Arabian Rhapsody Suite
• As I Sat at the Café
• A Vision
• Cantica Sacra
• Cantus Planus
• Concertato
• Courage
• Dance Sketches
• Eldorado
• Haunted Houses
• I Remember
• Kontakia
• Odyssey
• Recitativo Arioso + Variations
• Russian Tableaux
• Sancte Ioseph
• Spectre of the Maiden Scorned
• Spellbound
• The Coachman's Terror
• The House Where I was Born
• The Mermaid
• Theotokia
• The Phantom Listeners
• The Ruined Maid
• The Song of the Shirt
• The Way through the Woods

Recordings

• The Phantom Listeners (2011), Naxos^[1]
• Cantica Sacra (2016), Divine Art
• Concertato (2017), Divine Art
• Ithaka (2019), Divine Art.