I love working on various types of projects! I recently added a projects tab to my website where you can learn more about some of the projects that I’m going to write about below. These projects allow me to engage in creativity in a different way and I’m super excited about how they’ll progress.

1. Duo Charango - Duo Charango is the duo of which I am one half of. Made up of Jamie Monck and myself, we are a guitar duo primarily specializing in music by living composers from this part of the world.

2. Margins Guitar Collective- The Margins Guitar Collective is a collective dedicated to creating and supporting a more diverse an inclusive guitar community. I started this collective in 2018. We primarily focus on creative concert experiences and commissioning new works for guitar.

3. Women of Guitar Project- The Women of Guitar Project is a youtube video series that features a guitar piece by a women composer each week. My goal with this project is to honor these works and to provide space for a conversation about diversity in classical music.

4. The Research Diaries- Research is fun! I think that often people do great research, but don’t have the opportunity to share it widely. My research, both personally and professionally, primarily concerns Black guitar composers. This series of videos and posts is a way of sharing the research that I have found.

5. Trash Music-Issues of environmentalism justice and sustainability are really important to me. Trash Music is a research project and art series that engages the community about how we can be better stewards to the environment and how to better do that through music.

More on these projects to come! -Ciyadh P.S. I’m so inspired by dance and have taken to watching various dance performances. Alvin Ailey recently shared a video of Revelations which is here.