Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz – Lake

Sussan Deyhim is an Iranian composer, vocalist and performance artist. She was part of the national dance company in Iran from the age of thirteen and traveled all across Iran. Her music remains true to the spirit of her ancient heritage while pointing to the future with a very personal and poetic dramatic sensibility. In 1980 she moved to New York embarking on a multifaceted career encompassing music, theatre, dance, media and film. Sussan’s wide-ranging collaborations with leading artists from across the spectrum of contemporary art have included Ornette Coleman, Bobby McFerrin, Peter Gabriel, Eve Ensler, Bill Laswell, Jan Kaczmarek, Maurice Bejart, Shirin Neshat, Sophie Calle and her long time collaborator Richard Horowitz among others. Richard Horowitz lived in between Paris and Morocco from 1968 to1980 and was nominated for the American Academy of Arts and Letters Goddard Liberson Award by Paul Bowles in 1982. In 1997 he co-founded and artistic directed of The Gnaoua Music Festival in Essa