JARRAR, Donia
Name:
JARRAR, Donia (b. 1988)
Musical genre:
Electronic, Solo Instrument
Country of birth:
Kuwait
Country of location:
USA
Notes:
Dr. Donia Jarrar is an Arab-American composer-pianist, improviser, producer and interdisciplinary artist. Born to a Palestinian father and an Egyptian mother, she grew up between Kuwait City, Alexandria, Ramallah, and New York. Her personal experiences have strongly shaped her compositional voice, leading her to explore themes of intergenerational memory, trauma, identity, exile, displacement, and cultural narrative in her work.
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