Performance

Dance in Your Blood for Soprano and piano will be performed in this concert. For more information please visit here.

Fly Toward A Secret Sky for flute and fixed media will be performed at this concert. More info coming soon, visit: here

A Girl Who Missed the Train, a mini opera for soprano and violin, and His Gabbah Is Turquoise for double bass and piano will be featured in the concert Love Drunk.

Performers
Featuring Ali Kian Yazdanfar, principal bassist of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, alongside acclaimed pianist Brigitte Poulin. They are joined by Saba Yousefi (violin) and Bahar Harandi.

The program brings together Persian folk-inspired works by Reza Vali, a piece by Canadian composer Margaret Maria, and music by Toronto-based composer Parisa Sabet.

Date & Time
March 14 at 7:30 PM
305 Mont-Royal Ave E

Roots and Ruins: This concert tour is a journey through sound, from ruin to endurance, from silence to what is still heard.
A concert for soprano, violin, and piano, featuring music from Iran, Armenia, and beyond, with works by Reza Vali, Parisa Sabet, Maurice Ravel, and Komitas.
Tickets for both Toronto and Vancouver are on sale now.
Vancouver: January 25th
Toronto: Feburary 6th
Performers:
Soprano: Bahar Harandi
Violin: Saba Yousefi
Piano: Narek Abrahamian

March 9, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Pre-show refreshments at 6:45 p.m.
Post-show talk-back
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

Notes on Womanhood

Ahlam أحلام  was killed during the pandemic in Amman, Jordan in an honour killing. Her name translates to Dreams. Through song and arts of different mediums, this concert will thread her story along with other women's stories from different parts of the world, to explore individual and collective dreamings of women, juxtaposed with our society's often violent constructs of womanhood. What is womanhood in our current world, and how do we relate to this?

Curated by Confluence’s 2025-2026 Young Artistic Associate Natalie Fasheh.

My mini opera, A Girl Who Missed the Train, for soprano and violin, based on a poem by Shamisa Mawj and commissioned by Paisley Due, will be premiered at this concert. With special thanks to Melodies of Liberation.

PLEASE NOTE: This concert contains depictions of violence against women, including physical, sexual, emotional assault, and murder.

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Echoes of Her

A contemporary concert celebrating the voices of Iranian and Québécois female composers:

Parisa Sabet – Dance in Your Blood

Diana Chouinard – Chansons Folkloriques Québécoises (Quebec Folk Songs)

Donya Dabiry – In Those Nights of Disbelief

Geneviève Ackerman – Sept chants pour devenir un arbre & Appel de la lumière (Seven songs to become a tree & Call of light)

This unique performance shines a light on women's voices in classical music bridging cultures and presenting a repertoire that is both powerful and deeply moving.

Bahar Harandi – Soprano

Saba Yousefi – Violin

Chloé Dumoulin – Piano

Jeunesses Musicales Canada, Mont-royal Avenue East

305 Mont-royal Ave E, Montreal, Canada

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Sepideh for piano, audio playback and visuals will be performed by Asal Iranmehr.

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Sepideh for piano, audio playback and visuals will be performed by Asal Iranmehr.

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How Could I Know composed for clarinet and piano will be performed by Toronto-based clarinetist Peter Stoll and pianist Zain Zolinski.