FREELANCE performer, Recording artist AND EDUCATOR.
Delaney is a Madrid-based musician with Lebanese, Swiss and German origins, raised in Egypt, who feels at home in more than one country and more than one field. A classically trained artist with a Master's degree in Music Technology from New York University (NYU), Delaney is a versatile performer with a love for creative collaboration, exploration and learning. During her time at NYU she dedicated her thesis research to a 'dancer-musician' concept, her personal investigative approach to the skill of live cross-disciplinary performance utilizing real-time translation of dance movement into sound by the same performer.
Delaney moved to New York in September, 2013 after having lived in Athens, Greece for six years. She is currently based in Madrid, Spain and has had the pleasure of working with individuals and groups with a wide variety of styles including Depedro, Pink Martini, Camila Cabello, Halsey, St. Vincent, Jon Batiste, Smokey Robinson, RPL Chamber Project, Maria Manousaki Quartet, Musica de Camara NYC, Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra, The Tango Fado Project, The New York Arabic Orchestra, 2Cellos, Circa x Survive and a number of other orchestras, bands and projects. Venues and events Delaney plays at include the Teatro Real (Madrid), Rockwood Music Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, Terminal 5, El Museo del Barrio, Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Barclays Center, The Onassis Cultural Center (Athens), MuCEM (Marseille), The Beiteddine Festival (Lebanon), The White House Correspondent's Dinner, Saturday Night Live, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Delaney is a founding member of O Kwarteto, a string quartet devoted to the performance of Brazilian music not originally written for the instrumentation.
In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Delaney produced a children’s album titled “Beituna” based on the first level of her grandmother’s educational series for children in Arabic.
Dance projects she has written music for have been shown at the 2016 and 2017 editions of the Quartiers Danses festival in Montreal, as well as at Brew in Motion 2.0 and the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater for Noree Arts' Playscape 2016.
Since November, 2020 Delaney has been working at the German School of Madrid (DSM) as a general music, choir and string ensemble teacher.