Lauren Braithwaite

Lauren Braithwaite is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford where she is researching the current place and functionalism of music education in Afghanistan through the lens of public pedagogy, funded by the Oxford Carolyn and Franco Gianturco Graduate Scholarship. She has worked and studied for many years in both music education and musicology and has a particular interest in pedagogical practices in adverse conditions. For three years, Lauren was Head of Woodwind at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music and served as Artistic Director for the Zohra Women’s Orchestra, Afghanistan’s first all-female orchestra.  Lauren’s orchestral arrangements of Afghan folk and popular songs have been performed by the South Asian Symphony Orchestra (India) and the Norrköpings Symfoniorkerster (Sweden). 

Lauren Braithwaite is a speaker at the Diversity and the British String Quarter Symposium, taking place from the 14-16 June 2021. Full details of the programme can be found here:  Diversity and the British String Quartet Symposium.