Farangis Nurulla Non-Member New

Composer & writer exploring parallel lives, memory

Fiction Nonfiction

Farangis Nurulla-Khoja is a Tajik-Canadian composer and writer whose creative work explores the intersections of music, literature, memory, and cultural identity. She holds a Doctorate in Composition from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and has studied at IRCAM in Paris and the University of California, San Diego. Her catalogue includes more than 40 symphonic, chamber, vocal, and electroacoustic works performed across 21 countries. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Canada Council for the Arts’ Joseph S. Stauffer Prize, she is also an author of Echoes of Chiaroscuro: Unspoken Stories of Light (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025). Her literary writing explores parallel realities, displacement, cultural inheritance, and the fragile boundaries between memory, imagination, and lives not lived.