SELECTED PRESS
'The festival’s associate composer for 2024-26 is the fast-rising talent Emily Hazrati (b.1998), making a name with work for Aldeburgh, the London Symphony Orchestra and National Youth Choir.'
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'Accompanied by the pianist Ian Tindale, agile and responsive, [Soraya Mafi] was insightful and expressive in Hazrati’s work, with its warm, Iranian folk inflections and moments of spoken text.'
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- The Observer, 2025
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'Hazrati's fresh and experimental style make her a name to watch out for.' [translated]
- Cappella Amsterdam, 2025​​​
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'a powerful and beautiful reworking'
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- BBC Radio 3, 2025​​
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'Emily Hazrati demonstrates real imaginative flair.'
- BBC Music Magazine, 2024
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'An exciting and colourful piece, Hazrati assembles multiple layers of different types of sound ... with the excitement of the piece clearly being enjoyed by the singers.'
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'Hazrati combines intimate, close harmony with an imaginative use of textures and the suspicion that it is a challenge to sing.'
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'The song began with Taylor almost intoning the text against a wonderful wash of piano chords ... ending with striking melodrama and then vocalise...'
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- Planet Hugill, 2024
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'At 26, Hazrati is composer in residence at Oxford International Song Festival...'
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- Opera Now (Gramophone), 2024
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'More dazzle came from Emily Hazrati...'
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- The Arts Desk, 2023
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'music that's spacious and reflective'
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- BBC Radio 3, 2023