Farangis Nurulla-Khoja 

Composer Nurulla-Khoja, Farangis

Farangis NURULLA-KHOJA, a Tajik composer, studied in Sweden and in the United States (San Diego). Her work is inspired by both Asian and European sources. She followed courses in Dushanbe (Tajikistan), and later in Göteborg (Sweden) with Ole Lutzow-Holm, and in San Diego with Brian Ferneyhough and Roger Reynolds. She attended the composition course in Royaumont (France), and workshops with Ictus and Avanti ! (Brussels, Belgium), and with the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Montreal, Canada). Her works have been performed by Pierre-Yves Artaud and Piet Van Bockstal, as well as during the UNM Festival (Oslo, Norway), and have been broadcast on Stockholm Radio P2. Her piece Replica won the Abu Gazali Orize in 2000. She is presently following the Composition and Computer Music course at IRCAM. A musician, she has not forgotten that dance complements music, and that language - especially the language of poetry - is above all a series of meaningful sounds. For her, composition is a voyage into the unknown, a search for sounds unheard and for forms unseen.