Performance

His Gabbah is Turquoise commissioned by Ali Kian Yazdanfar and Sanaz Sotoudeh for Sayeh Roshan Project will be performed by Ali Kian Yazdanfar, bass, and Brigitte Poulin piano at McGill University, Pollack Hall, Montreal, QC, Canada

Minakari for solo piano commissioned by the amazing pianist, Melody Quah, will receive another stellar performance by her at Mansfield University. Details to come!

Minakari for solo piano commissioned by the amazing pianist, Melody Quah, will receive its world premier as part of the Penn State faculty Recital.

The event will be live streamed. Stay tuned for the link to the live stream!

“When the Roses Laugh in Full-Blown Beauty” originally written for harp and marimba and re-arranged for violin, cello and piano will be performed as part of the Ten Years of "Celebrating Resilience: Music by Iranian Bahá'ís" concert presented by Crossing Borders Music.

This program is made possible thanks to the Skokie Library, and through support from the Paul M Angell Family Foundation and The MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

December 10, 2022 @ 3:00pm. Skokie Public Library: 5215 Oakton St, Skokie, IL 60077, United States

Dr. Angela Miller-Niles and Shelly Armstrong will be performing my piano duo, Arghavan, as part of their concert, Piano Duo: Deux Femmes Pianists. The concert will also be livestreamed.

When: September 27 at 7:30PM

Where: Ley Theatre of Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska.

Livestream: www.wsc.edu/watch-live.

Calendar link: https://www.wsc.edu/events/event/2632/piano_duo_deux_femmes_pianistes.

Shurangiz for Pierrot Ensemble instrumentation will be performed by Ensemble Paramirabo at the Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra 20th anniversary.

A proud, recently retired woman and her adult daughter square-off in a grand but faded Montréal apartment. It’s a familiar and tiresome routine for the two of them, but today their complex give-and-take will open a door to an entirely unexpected, terrifying, and potentially wondrous future neither are fully ready to enter. Vanishing Point is a 30-minute opera for soprano, mezzo-soprano, and Pierrot Ensemble instrumentation that I created in collaboration with librettist Nika Khanjani. We have taken elements from our shared history as Iranian immigrants to craft a challenging piece of complex and nuanced emotional shifts, a whiplash of tenderness and bitterness, and a sober question of whether we can reframe a crisis into an opportunity to show up fully present for someone we love even as we watch them slip away. Densely crafted around themes of loss, migration, and unresolved trauma, it asks audiences to bring their attention, patience, and empathy to an emotional canvas that is perhaps uncommon in traditional opera.

We have designed this opera as a vehicle exclusively for BIPOC performers. On the premier performance, Dr. J. Marchand Knight and Fredericka Petit-Homme will embody two women who, like many Iranian immigrants to North America, resist aligning themselves with any simple and reductive category—especially when facing the universal challenges and heartbreak of the loss of identity through dementia.

The world premiere of my opera, Vanishing Point, will take place at Salle Bourgie, Montreal, Quebec on October 10, 2021 at 7:30 pm (EDT).

Link: https://thepointofsale.com/tickets/trytique

Update:

If you missed the performance you can access the full program here until March 2022:

https://lepointdevente.com/billets/trytique?fbclid=IwAR382BSRRJjl9OJyXM…

And the Lands Were Dreaming arranged for violin, cello and piano will be performed by Crossing Boarders Music ensemble on May 9th 2021 at 2:00 pm.

Link to the online event: https://fb.me/e/1TgYEz3LH