Munir Hosssn & Ganavya

Munir Hossn

Born on November 24, 1981 in Mandaguari, Brazil, Munir Hossn is an award-winning producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. His incredible mix of heritage reveals itself in his sound: he is African, Italian, Middle-Eastern, and Brazilian Indigenous, making his music undeniably original, and deeply authentic. Both in his personhood and his music, Munir Hossn reveals pathways to a deep togetherness of many peoples.

When listening to Munir Hossn’s compositions or arrangements, the listener is able to imagine how wide and great his journeys through different countries and cultures have been.

Hossn has been featured on Grammy award-nominated albums, and his Hossn’s collaborators include: Quincy Jones, Hermeto Pascoal, Gilberto Gil, Jacob Collier, Maro,Ibrahim Maalouf, Concha Buika, Nella, Joe Zawinul Syndicate, Didier Lockwood, Alfredo Rodriguez, and many others

Ganavya

ganavya is a transdisciplinary scholar, vocalist, word-craftswoman, jalatarangam artist, and double-bassist.

Recent credits include: this body is so impermanent… (2021) directed by Peter Sellars, featuring ganavya (solo voice, composition), Michael Schumacher (choreography, dance), Wong Dongling (live calligraphy); Ch.7: The Goddess (2019) directed by Peter Sellars, featuring ganavya (solo voice, composition, dance), Michael Schumacher (choreography, dance); Daughter of a Temple (2019), a sound installation composed for the 13th Bienale de Habana; featured solo vocalist and lead researcher with esperanza spalding on the 2022 “Best Jazz Vocal” Grammy award winning album Songwrights Apothecary Lab (2021), contributing librettist for Iphigenia by Elder Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding, writer/singer of first Tamil lyrics to win a Latin Grammy award (2020), vocalist in Vijay Iyer’s Ritual Quartet, album and touring solo vocalist on the Quincy Jones’ produced Tocororo which hit #1 in jazz charts.

Her fellowships for music composition include Camargo Foundation, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, where she became the youngest composer to have received the honor in 2021.

Upcoming projects include: the body of reality ft. ganavya (composition, singer) and Leo Genovese (piano) produced by Peter Sellars; the album let’s go out and play, the South Asian diasporic album how to cure a ghost, and an untitled opera commission for Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (2025 premiere) based off of the 2,000 year old Buddhist Mahayana text the Vimalakirti Sutra  and her grandmother, Smt. Seetha Doraiswamy’s life, featuring libretto by Robert Thurman, composed by Ganavya and Sivan Eldar, directed by Peter Sellars.

Her publication work includes written guide for the Songwrights Apothecary Lab album, shards of ether, a collection of 101 short essays for John Zorn’s Arcana: Musicians on Music series; [     ]: on the Form behind form, an analysis on repetition in music, for Journal on Mutual Mentorship for Musicians.

Her graduate degrees in music are from Berklee College of Music (contemporary performance) UCLA (ethnomusicology) and Harvard University (Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry). Recently, she was appointed  as a Scholar-In-Residence at Cynthia Mitchell Center for the Arts in the University of Houston.

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Release Date: April 7, 2023