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 Persian Dastgah and the physicality of performance.
She is a tutor of Improvisation at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, and the Founder and Artistic Director of Displaced – a concert series which brings artists and audiences together through interdisciplinary storytelling and collective memory. Her latest work, Tavalode Dobare (Reborn), is a a transcultural AV work, merging Persian, Sicilian & Sufi poetry, music & ritual practice.