Thank you for visiting my website! I’m a musician and researcher based in London, UK.
Fatima Lahham is a Syrian and British improviser who uses recorders and her voice to create spaces for collective imagination, inviting audiences to dream new worlds into being. Her music weaves improvised recorder playing through sung poems in English and Arabic, sampling birdsong, bees buzzing, and seascapes.
Fatima is an experienced facilitator and leads collective music and sound making in community centres, hospitals, care homes, universities, and her shows. She was Performer in Residence at the Great Ormond Street Hospital (2022-2023), and an artist with Live Music Now (2017-2022). Fatima has performed recently at festivals and venues including in London at Another Sky Festival at Cafe Oto, Auto Italia, the Horse Hospital, Moment's Notice, and the London Handel Festival. She also performs internationally and has appeared in France, Italy, Austria, and Germany, in 2026 performing as a fringe artist at the Oude Musik Festival Fringe in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and at Underground Social in Cairo, Egypt.
Fatima completed undergraduate studies in Music at Oxford University, before being awarded a Masters degree as a Scholar at the Royal College of Music, London, and a fully-funded PhD in improvisation practices at Cambridge University. Fatima is currently a Hallsworth Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. Previously, she lectured at the Royal College of Music (2017-2023), held a research fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (2025), and was a member of the music therapy charity Nordoff & Robbins's research team (2023-2025).
Fatima's debut solo album "bulbul" is out on FS Records (2022) and her first book "Improvising Otherwise" was published with Open Book Publishers (2025).
You can follow me on instagram @fictionalfatima to keep updated with performances. To contact me, go to the ‘contact’ page on the website. Thank you!