Dana is a Qatari contemporary composer, songwriter and symphonic artist, drawing on her rich cultural heritage and motivated by her love of world music, her work is a blend of Arab and Western contemporary classical.
Dana has played at the iconic Theatre Royal Haymarket in London bringing the Qatari composer’s music to a UK audience for the first time. She has also delved into musical theatre, composing the music for “Broken Wings” and “Rumi: The Musical”. “Broken Wings” was the first Middle Eastern musical that arrived in the West End, and it has been performed in various theatres around the globe. “Rumi: The Musical” premiered at London Coliseum to a full house and in Qatar during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
The composer also provided the score for a British Film in 2019, “The Necromancer” and Iranian film in 2022 with an all femalecrew titled “Orca”, a drama based on a true story.
Dana has released her fourth album INDIGO, intended as a multisensory audio-visual experience that seeks to cultivate an internal space in which we are able to reach a higher level of connectivity and consciousness.
INDIGO is a journey towards your higher self through the whole spectrum of light, colour and sound, performed by a chamber orchestra of six musicians as well as electronic sound to generate the desired frequency.
Breaking the rules of “selective absorption”, INDIGO works to connect the audience to their extra spectral senses and encourages them to captivate, expand, and amalgamate with their surroundings and within themselves, on a deeper level.
INDIGO can be streamed on all major streaming platforms and each song has a corresponding video that can be viewed on her YouTube channel.
- Arab America
“A new international sensation in world music.”
- Culture Whisper, London
“Al Fardan is at the forefront of professional and influential women in Qatar...”
- Einpresswire
“Dana Al Fardan, exporting Qatar’s’ culture across continents
