Roxanna Albayati is an Iranian-Iraqi interdisciplinary artist, researcher and music educator. Driven by embodied artistic research, her transcultural practice centres around combining experimental music with multilingual art forms and audio-visuals, where her music merges cross-cultural improvisation with Iranian Dastgāh and the physicality of performance. Roxanna explores the conscious/subconscious and self/other, interrogating their interplay internally, spiritually & materially, whilst considering this through the perspective of Orientalist constructions and female place in society, fascinated by process and natural evolution of discovery.

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Currently, Roxanna is a Sound & Music InMotion composer, and is the Founder and Artistic Director of Displaced - a concert series which brings artists and audiences together through interdisciplinary storytelling and collective memory, dedicated to SWANA voices and stories. She also teaches improvisation at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (London), previously having worked there as a  graduate researcher, looking into the inequalities which exist between different student groups in a conservatoire setting, specifically focusing on the sense of belonging and student voice.

 

Roxanna has performed and exhibited at venues including at Cafe Oto (London), Zaratan Arte Contemporânea (Lisbon), Northern Ballet (Leeds), CRL- Central Elétrica (Porto),  Espaço MIRA (Porto,),  Bozar (Brussels), HETkfEST (Tallinn), Sound Festival (Sound Scotland) and Abastan Factory (Armenia). Roxanna's work has been supported by Arts Council England, Help Musicians, Criatório Porto, Halaqat - Goethe Institute, Marchus Trust, Arts & Humanities Research Council, & i-Portunus. 

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She completed her BMus in Music at Goldsmiths, University of London, studying cello with Rebecca Turner. In 2020 she completed her MA in Performance and Music Education at Trinity Laban, achieving a distinction as well as the Directors Prize in Music Education, for outstanding work and contributions to the music education department and wider institution. She studied cello performance with Natalia Pavlutskaya, music education with Tim Palmer, improvisation with Douglas Finch and singing with Linda Hirst.