Fatima Lahham is a recorder player and researcher based in Lambeth. She is currently a Hallsworth Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, working on her three-year community music and research project ‘Carrying Each Others’ Hearts with Our Ears’.
Fatima has worked as an artist with Live Music Now since 2017 and regularly makes music in healthcare settings including most recently as musician in residence at the Great Ormond Street Hospital. She facilitates sound and singing workshops regularly at theatres, schools, hospitals and arts and cultural spaces, and is committed to sounding together as a way to be in community. Fatima’s debut album bulbul (2022) is out on FS Records and her first book Improvising Otherwise was published in 2025 by Open Book Publishers.
