Lydia Kakabadse

Lydia Kakabadse (born 1955) is a British composer of vocal, choral and chamber music. Her musical style is tonal and modal with influences from chant and early polyphony, Orthodox liturgical music and other non-western music. It also incorporates the Arabic scale with traditional Western harmonies.

Her choral piece Odyssey was commissioned by the Hellenic Institute of Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2015 she was commissioned to write a choral piece, I Remember Two short pieces were performed at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral in 2019, and her chamber work Concertato was performed at the Chatsworth Arts Festival later the same year. Her chamber work Russian Tableaux was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 to mark International Women's Day in 2015 and 2017.

Compositions

Kakabadse's work includes:

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 Cantica Sacra (2016), Divine Art Concertato (2017), Divine Art Ithaka (2019), Divine Art.