Lydia Kakabadse

Lydia Kakabadse (born 1955) is a British composer of vocal, choral and chamber music. Her music is tonal, and is influenced by Russian and Greek Orthodox liturgy.

Her choral piece Odyssey was commissioned by the Hellenic Institute of Royal Holloway College of the University of London. In 2015 she wrote a choral piece for her old school, Forest Preparatory School in Altrincham, for performance at an inter-school music event. Two short pieces are to be performed at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester in 2022.

Kakabadse's work includes:

• Arabian Rhapsody Suite
• Cantica Sacra
• Cantus Planus
• Concertato
• Dance Sketches
• Eldorado
• I Remember
• Kontakia
• Odyssey
• Recitativo Arioso + Variations
• Russian Tableaux
• Sancte Ioseph
• Spectre of the Maiden Scorned
• Spellbound
• The Coachman's Terror
• The House Where I was Born
• The Mermaid
• Theotokia
• The Phantom Listeners
• The Song of the Shirt

• The Phantom Listeners (2011), Naxos
• Cantica Sacra (2016), Divine Art
• Concertato (2017), Divine Art
• Ithaka (2019), Divine Art.