Chanteuse classique
médiéval - contemporain - lyrique

Katia Makdissi-Warren, composer
Transcultural music : Middle Eastern, Western & Canadian Indigenous

Katia studied composition in Quebec City and Hamburg as well as Arabic and Syrian music in Beirut.  She holds a PhD in composition and is a graduate of Michel Longtin’s class.  She participated in composition workshops given by Franco Donatoni, Ennio Morricone, Manfred Stahnke and P. Hage.

Her compositions, regularly broadcast on radio, have been performed by Middle-Eastern and Western soloists as well as ensembles including the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Beirut’s National Oriental Orchestra, Appassionata, Arraymusic and the Al-Madiyye ensemble.  In addition to composing and performing, she also conducts Quebec City’s modern music ensemble Erreur de Type 27  and is the guest conductor of the Consort contemporain de Québec.  In the summer of 2008, she helmed the orchestra of Quebec City’s Capitole production of Les Misérables.  She has also worked as Léo Brouwer’s Assistant Conductor for the recording of a CD produced by Doberman which features some of her works.  She is an award-nominated composer for numerous musical, theatre, dance and film companies in Canada, France and Germany.  Nominations include the Bernard Bonnier prize (theatre music) and the Gala des Masques.

In 2009, Katia was commissioned to compose the music for a permanent multimedia exhibit at the Burj-Dubaï Tower in Dubai, the highest structure in the world. She is the Artistic Director/Composer for the ensemble OktoEcho which specialises in mixed music of Middle-Eastern and Western roots.

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