Laith Al Attar (oud)
Donia Jarra (soprano)
Diana Sussman (soprano)
Melissa Coppola, accordion

In The Return (2014), a woman struggles to cope with issues of conflicted identity and the pain of grief and loss while yearning to find a place to call home. The second movement ends with my arrangement of Tunisian composer Anuar Brahem’s “Le pas du chat noir,” which I first arranged to perform with two of my dear friends working at Al Kamandjati in Palestine: Palestinian composer and accordionist Mohammad Bassam, and Greek composer and oud virtuoso Dimitri Mikelis.