Lora Al-Ahmad

Subtitled “A Musical Tribute to Václav Havel,” ELEGY for cello and piano by Lora Al-Ahmad commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. The music seeks (and eventually finds) assura...

WANDERING MIND is a mercurial dialogue in three parts for flute and bassoon. Part I is a spirited, rhythmic exchange of contrapuntal fragments with many twists and turns. Part II, a languorous and mel...

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE is a sweeping and sunny work for trumpet and piano. Trumpeters will revel in the opportunities to showcase their instrument's expressivity, as well as surprising colors created by v...

MUTUAL is a dreamy single-movement work for violin and piano that navigates numerous moods and textures in its seven-minute span with elegance and poise. At times, it is a showpiece for the violin at...

Light searches for a path through darkness in Lora Al-Ahmad’s EARTHY CONCERNS for piano quartet. Broad antiphonal gestures balanced against intimate polyphony lend this richly textured chamber work a...

Bulgarian piano prodigy Lora Al-Ahmad traveled to New York City in her teens to further her training; and while at the Mannes School began studying composition with Lowell Liebermann. Among the first...