Bushra El-Turk's music of '.ironic.', '.arresting.' and 'limitless imagination' forebears the influence of her Lebanese roots and life as a Londoner and love of folk music.
Bushra began to study the 'cello and piano from a young age at the Centre for Young Musicians and then went on to study composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Julian Philips, where she graduated with a Bachelor and then gained a Master in Composition with Distinction, supported by a PRS Foundation Scholarship.
She has written various works for the concert hall, dance, theatre and multi-media, both performed and broadcast on radio and television in the UK, Europe, the Middle-East, the Americas and Australia.
She has attended masterclasses with Sentieri Selvaggi (Julia Wolfe), 13th Young Composer's Meeting in Holland with Louis Andriessen, Martijn Padding, Richard Ayres and Mary Finsterer, Acanthes in France with Hugues Dufourt, Ivan Fedele and Bruno Montovani amongst others.
Her string quartet, Eating Clouds, was among the five selected pieces in the University of Aberdeen International Music Prize and was performed by members of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in April 2007.
Her collaborations include the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Opera House, OrchestUtopica, Orchestre National de Lorraine, Manchester Camerata, Ensemble Nox, Opera Holland Park, Orkest de ereprijs and Wissam Boustany amongst others.
With the pianist Tala Tutunji, she has established the Chelsea Music Academy, a centre for music education, inter-cultural events and research specialising in Middle-Eastern and Western idioms, which was launched at the start of 2010.
Please check out: www.chelseamusicacademy.org
