Playing Favourites with Leila Adu

New Zealand musician of Ghanaian descent who works in theatre, dance and film. She is studying for a doctorate in Composition at Princeton University, New York, and has worked on a project teaching music to inmates at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. As Orchestra Wellington's Emerging Composer-in-Residence, she has written a song cycle for voice and orchestra to be performed as part of their 2015 season.