Season 2, Episode 1: Nomi Abadi
In the first episode of Season 2 Ella chats with Nomi Abadi about abuse, experiences of harassment in the workplace. They cover themes of trauma survival and the importance and difficulty of speaking up.
This episode has a content warning: Please note that this conversation explores personal experiences of sexual violence and emotional abuse, as well as the healing journeys of survivors. Below is information in the liner notes about trusted UK organisations who can support you if you have experienced violence - and please know that you are not alone.
http://www.femalecomposersafetyleague.org/
https://www.musafespace.org.uk/
Show Notes:
The joy kids bring to inspiring work & working as a female composer with kids
Being a female composer
The Female Composer Safety League and the sadness of its necessity.
Surviving trauma and harassment in the workplace
The dynamics and consequences of disbelieving women
The mechanics of and responses to predation
Speaking out
The Nory Keytar
The 10 step Question
Who is Nomi Abadi
Grammy®-nominated virtuoso pianist, singer, composer, activist, and inventor of the NORY® double keytar, Nomi Abadi started composing themes when she was four years old. She toured and performed as a guest soloist with numerous orchestras around the world as a child prodigy, notably as the youngest pianist ever with the Orange County Chamber Orchestra at age 5, and as pianist of the acclaimed Grammy-nominated album, “Sekou Andrew and the String Theory”. Nomi's guest solo piano tours have taken her to Budapest, Hungary, Prague, Portugal, Angola, and all across the US.
Nomi received her piano education from her father, a fourth-generation music teacher, and as a child at the Mannes School of Music (the New School) in New York City. Her grandmother was Tom Waits's piano teacher. She discovered her passion for acting and film when she was 12 years old. Her first film, "Roadkill" premiered in 2020, which she wrote, produced, scored and starred in, won Best Dark Comedy in the Independent Shorts Awards and awarded Nomi as half of the award for "Best Acting Duo". Nomi studies acting in the master class of Gregory Berger-Sobeck, coach to Riz Ahmed and Lupita N’Yongo.
Nomi has 25 credits to her name as a film, TV and game composer. Her clients include Apple, Bose, Cartoon Network, and various independent filmmakers nationwide. As a trauma survivor and trauma education and healing advocate, Nomi formed the Female Composer Safety League, a nonprofit focused on creating safety and equality for composers of disenfranchised genders and race in the audio industry.
Nomi invented the world's first double keytar, NORY®, a finalist in the Guthman Instrument Competition at IT Tech, and finalist in the all-female entrepreneur organization Pitches 2 Bitches. NORY® will make its television debut on AppleTV later this year.
Listen to the show
Apple - https://apple.co/3tu2E6A
Spotify - https://spoti.fi/33FiobY
Mentioned in this episode:
Nory keytars
The Afterparty trailer -
Find Nomi:
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialNomiAbadi/
https://www.instagram.com/nomiabadi/
https://www.youtube.com/user/NomiAbadi
https://open.spotify.com/artist/14FLlW7DFvbPIXdRZprO1A?si=lbzwrxKFQsq-srZlizOV3w
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