Mariam Abounnasr

Mariam Abounnasr is a composer and arranger of video game and soundtrack music. She is associated with Procyon Studio and, beyond composing music herself, has arranged a significant number of compositions for various media in the Xeno series.
==Biography==
Abounnasr was born on the 10th of January, 1990 in London, England.Profile (Procyon Studio website) She initially got into piano and composing at 7 years old,Interview with Mariam Abounnasr and Don Kotowski, via vgmonline.net and became more serious about pursuing composing as a career while taking a variety of music classes at the age of 14. Abounnasr also discovered video game music at this time, specifically with the game Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil.
Abounnasr received her Bachelors degree in music from the University of London and her Masters degree from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. During her studies, she met Yasunori Mitsuda and began work with Procyon Studio as an orchestrator. Abounnasr's first major work as a composer was for the soundtrack of Another Eden. She has continued to work as a composer, arranger and orchestrator of music with Procyon Studio until present.
==Relevance to the Xeno series==
Abounnasr has arranged and orchestrated many compositions (primarily those of Yasunori Mitsuda) into the pieces featured in the games' music and other official releases. More recently, she has also composed pieces of her own.
===Xenoblade Chronicles 2===
* Arranger
** We Are the Chosen Ones
** Over the Sinful Entreaty
** Shadow of the Lowlands
** 
** Praetor Amalthus - The Acting God -
** Our Hope
** Parting
** The Tomorrow With You
** 
** White All Around Us
* Orchestration
** Xenoblade II - Where It All Began -
** Over the Sinful Entreaty
** The Decision
** A Faint Hope
** The Power of Jin
** Praetor Amalthus - The Acting God -
** Parting
** The Tomorrow With You
** Escape - Going Through Clouds -
** 
** White All Around Us
* Recording Interpreter
* Copyist
* Cooperation
===Torna ~ The Golden Country===
* Arranger
** The Beginning of Our Memory
** Over Despair and Animus
** Our Paths May Never Cross
* Recording Interpreter
===Xenoblade Chronicles: Future Connected===
* Arranger
** Beyond the Sky (Acoustic Arrange)
===Xenoblade Chronicles 3===
* Composer
** Sun-Dappled GladeCo-credited alongside Yasunori Mitsuda, possibly because the track uses a melody from Mitsuda's Off-Seer - Noah.
** Encroaching MaliceCo-credited alongside Yasunori Mitsuda, possibly because the track uses a melody from Mitsuda's .
** A Life Become Distant
** Black Mountains - Valak Mountain
** Black Mountains - Valak Mountain/Night
** Black Mountains - Prison Island
** Black Mountains - Prison Island/Night
* Arranger
** Battlefield - The Scramble for Life
** Young Warriors
** Lost Days of Warmth
** Impending Crisis
** The Two Off-Seers
** Suffocating Reverberation
** Against the World
** Suspicion
** Sun-Dappled Glade
** Encroaching Malice
** 
** Confronting Our Past
** A Life Become Distant
** In the Morning MistCo-arranged with Yasunori Mitsuda.
** Life's Fading Flame - Holding These Thoughts
** That To Which The Defeated Cling
** 
** Feelings Upon This Melody
** Origin Ascending
** Noah and N
** The Two Queens of Aionios
** Congregating Lives
** Showdown with Z
** How the Future Endures
** Hope for the Future
** At Our Life's End
** Black Mountains - Valak Mountain
** Black Mountains - Valak Mountain/Night
** Black Mountains - Prison Island
** Black Mountains - Prison Island/Night
** Two Worlds and Two Hearts
===Non-mainline games===
====Xenogears Original Soundtrack Revival Disc -the first and the last-====
* Arranger
** The End of Childhood (Revival Version)
** The Beginning and the End (Revival Version)
====Xenogears 20th Anniversary Concert -The Beginning and the End-====
* Arranger
** 
** 
====Across the Kosmos ~ Xenosaga Piano Collection====
* Arranger
==Other media==
==Notes==
==Gallery==
==External links==
* IMDB page
* VGMdb page
* Twitter
* Blog
===Interviews===
* Procyon Studio interview archive
* Laura Shigihara AAPI Game Developers & Creators Interview Series (2023) - Mariam Abounnasr
==References==
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