H. Sinno
H.Sinno is a composer-performer, writer, and designer based in New York. They have been the lyricist and front-person for Mashrou Leila since 2008, engaging conversations around representation, free speech, gender justice, and sexual freedoms in the Middle East. H has a BFA from the Department of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut, and an MFA in Sonic Practice from Dartmouth College where they researched digital vocality as a site of political negotiation. Their writing has been published by Poetry Project, Frieze Magazine, The Derivative, Theater Magazine, Bard College & others.
Their debut full-length opera, Westerly Breath, was in development at The Industry Los Angeles, and opened at the New York Met Museum in January 2024. Westerly Breath braids Egyptian mythology, and architectural history into a semi- autobiographical portrait of queer trauma, leveraging myth, monument, and memoir as vectors of dismemberment and remembrance. Their solo debut, Poems of Consumption, opened at London’s Barbican Centre in July 2023, and is currently on tour in the US. Partially inspired by Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, Poems of Consumption is a song cycle built on poetry published in Amazon customer reviews, covering themes like ennui, surveillance capitalism, heartbreak, boycotts, and orientalism, with compositions that juxtapose harsh electronica with the whimsy of a string quartet.