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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Tala Khoury, has played the viola since she was 6, studying at the ESNCM shortly after it was founded. She recently graduated as a nutritionist and began working for the World Health Organization. Tala keeps up her viola playing by performing at in the ESNCM Orchestra and the Palestine Youth Orchestra as well as various Arabic music groups in Ramallah where her family live. Her favorite performing memory relates to a recent PYO performance at the National
Conservatory in Rome. Several members of the Palestinian Diaspora were there, many of them refugees or people unable to return to Palestine. Some of the audience had asked if the orchestra could play the nationalist song ‘Mawtini’ during the interval. At the end of the concert, the leader stood up and began playing it from memory, eventually all the musicians joined in, receiving a standing ovation from the audience.
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