Composer
Kelsely Abaza (كلسلي أباظة) is an Egyptian avant-garde, multi-genre composer/songwriter, producer, writer, and interdisciplinary researcher working in New Zealand. Abaza’s compositions manifest rich polystylistic variation including elements of avant-garde electronic music, Western classical music, Arabic and Circassian tonal systems, jazz, musique concrète, vocal music, microtonality, and experimental electro-pop. Abaza was born on 27 December 1984 in Cairo. He is a naturalized New Zealander, having moved to New Zealand to further his education studying Political Science, Sociology, and Philosophical Logic at the University of Canterbury.