Workshopped by Richard Casey at Oxford Faculty of Music, 28th November 2017.

Calling - Richard Casey workshop recording

Emily Hazrati is a composer based in London. Her practice is informed by sounds and landscapes from the natural world, as well as ideas around breath, ritual, and circularity. She has a particular affinity to working with narrative and text, and is interested in collaborative, interdisciplinary ways of making art.

Emily has recently been developing her chamber opera TIDE, commissioned by Britten Pears Arts, which premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival 2022 to sold-out audiences. Upcoming projects include a new work for London Symphony Orchestra as one of their Panufnik Composers 2024/25, a song commission for Ella Taylor and SongEasel (supported by the PRS Foundation's Open Fund for Music Creators and the Fidelio Charitable Trust), and music for Uckfield Concert Brass as part of Making Music's Adopt a Music Creator programme. Other recent commissions have included for the Ligeti Quartet as part of their 'Nouvelles Etudes’ project (co-commissioned by Britten Pears Arts, BBC Radio 3, and Bourgie Hall), Oxford International Song Festival, and National Youth Choir. She has worked with the BBC Singers, Royal Opera House, Psappha, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, and CHROMA Ensemble, amongst many others.

Emily’s music has received multiple broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, and performances in the UK, Canada, Germany, USA, and New Zealand. Her compositions have been released on NMC Recordings as part of their Young Composers 5 album, receiving critical acclaim from BBC Music Magazine and Planet Hugill. She is published in the Multitude of Voyces 'Anthology of Sacred Music by Women Composers Volume 3: Advent to Candlemas'.