A contemporary composer based in Darmstadt, Germany, Barbara Heller is a founding member of the international working group for Women and Music.
Available on the Feminae in Musica album, the moving, modern composition Lalai, Lullaby for Awakening? was written by Heller in 1989 and dedicated to “all women who are held in Islamic prisons for political reasons, to all those who have already been executed and to all those whose lives are still in danger.”