Voices That Wander

In 2024 I was awarded funding from Arts Council England to create the project 'Voices That Wander', a choral exploration of traditional songs in Ladino,  the Judeo-Spanish language spoken by the ancestors of Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal throughout the middle ages. 

In recent years I had been studying the language of Ladino and the beautiful canon of traditional Ladino folk songs from the Mizrahi and Sephardi diaspora. On discovering that Ladino is at risk of dying out I felt compelled to create music sung in the language; there are so few Ladino speakers that it is officially a UNESCO endangered language. This discovery was my starting point for creating Voices That Wander. Working with communities in London from a range of generations and backgrounds, I created original compositions for a 50 person choir and soloists, which were performed at events across London. 

Summer 2024