Joelle Khoury is a composer/pianist who performs contemporary classical music and jazz. She has made four CDs, which include Tumbling Up (jazz quintet); Is It So (jazz quintet); Music and Poetry (chamber music and voice, based on German romantic poetry); and Dream She Is (opera monodrama in Arabic, chamber, electronics, and contralto). She is a professor at the Lebanese National Conservatory and AUB (the American University in Beirut). She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and is trilingual in Arabic, French, and English. While at MacDowell, she worked on the project "Palais de Femmes" (women's palaces), a multimedia performance portraying international women artists who became mentally ill and/or committed suicide.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Joelle Khoury
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: Jisr El Bacha, Sin El Fil, Beirut, LEBANON
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013
More:
www.joellek.com
Studios
Watson
Joelle Khoury worked in the Watson studio.
Built in 1916 in memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’ studio with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…