Rachel Beckles Willson
Professor by special appointment Intercultural Performing Arts
- Name
- Prof.dr. R. Beckles Willson
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1480
- r.beckles.willson@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1421-8767
Rachel Beckles Willson is Professor of Intercultural Performing Arts at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA). This chair was established by Codarts. Her current artistic research interests lie in ecological justice, relationships with the other-than-human, and multi-media technologies.
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Prof. Rachel Beckles Willson has a hybrid professional arts practice, active as multi-instrumentalist, composer and scholar. Her current research interests lie in ecological justice, relationships with the other-than-human, and multi-media technologies. They have grown out of earlier work on decoloniality (Orientalism and Musical Mission: Palestine and the West (2013)), the cultural life of musical instruments (The Oud: An Illustrated History (2023)), and activist work with people on the move (‘Migration, music and the mobile phone: a case study in technology and socio-economic justice in Sicily’ (2019)). Her early career was as a concert pianist, following studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London and the Liszt Academy, Budapest, while her career as a scholar began with PhD studies at King’s College London, and a focus on contemporary music of Hungary (György Kurtág, The Sayings of Peter Bornemisza (2004) and Ligeti, Kurtág, and Hungarian Music during the Cold War (2007)).
Professor by special appointment Intercultural Performing Arts
- Faculty of Humanities
- Academie der Kunsten
- Beckles Willson R. (26 January 2024). Concert and book presentation (The Oud: An Illustrated History) in collaboration with the Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra. MAQAM. Amsterdam. [performance].
- Beckles Willson R. (15 March 2024). DisOrient: for oud and live electronics. Sound Talks. Culture Hub, Rotterdam. [performance].
- Beckles Willson R. (8 May 2023), What is intercultural performing art in an era of climate breakdown. Codarts, Rotterdam. [lecture].
- Beckles Wilson R. (2023), Against the grain of late style. Re-Thinking Central European Music. Budapest. [lecture].
- Beckles Willson R. (6 May 2023). Juggling with extinction: interactive sound installation. Manchester Museum. Manchester. [performance].
- Beckles Willson R. (20 May 2023). Encountering the ocean: electroacoustic performance of original composition (première). Manchester. [performance].
- Beckles Willson R. (20 May 2023). Entering the ocean: presentation of prototype children’s app for music-making with marine animals. Manchester. [performance].
- Beckles Willson R. (4 December 2023). Concert and book presentation (The Oud: An Illustrated History). Sijthoff Cultuur. Leiden. [performance].
- Beckles Willson R.. Sacred Space: electroacoustic work. Manchester. [performance].
- Beckles Willson R.. The jukebox that drowned: electroacoustic work. Manchester. [performance].
- Beckles Willson R.. Flames of Memory: electroacoustic work. . Manchester. [performance].
- Beckles Willson R., Voulgaris E., Montanari C. & Tsarouchis K.. Sing no Sad Songs for Me. Reid Concert Hall. Edinburgh. [performance].
- Beckles Willson R.. Acem Kurdi Saz Semai . BBC Persian. [performance].
- Beckles Willson R. . Traditions of Ottoman Oud : from centre to periphery. Biblioteca Vallicelliana. Rome. [performance].
- Beckles Willson R., Voulgaris E., Montanari C. & Tsarouchis K.. Sing no Sad Songs for Me. Brunei Gallery, SOAS. London. [performance].