Performance

A concert of music for the Instruments of Happiness quartet, with mezzo-soprano Marie-Annick Béliveau. Six new compositions, all based around the poetry of the Nobel-Prize nominated Iranian dissident poet, Simin Behbahani. Music by Parisa Sabet, Kiya Tabassian, Laurie Radford, Jennifer Butler, Tim Brady and Juliet Palmer.

For more information please visit: https://music.uwo.ca/events/composition-week.html

Naynava for solo flute and Fly Toward a Secret Sky for flute and audio play back will be performed by amazing Alheli Pimienta (http://www.alhelipimienta.com/home-2/).
Please stay tuned for more information!

O Nightingale is a composition inspired by one of Rumi's poem, Nightingale. O Nightingale is commissioned by Chicago based musical group, Nightingale Ensemble. The composition is scored for mezzo-soprano, flute, guitar and harp. It will be world premiered on June 28, 2019, at William Harris Lee &Co in the Fine Arts Building.
For more information please visit: http://www.nightingaleensemble.org/

The Seville Orange Three for flute and piano will be performed by Roya Farzaneh at her DMA Reciatal in the Johnson Performing Arts Hall at The University of South Carolina (in Columbia, SC) on April 9th at 7:30 pm.

When the Roses Laugh in Full-blown Beauty's arrangement for piano trio will be performed by Crossing Boarders Music. This concert is organized by the Ashland Chamber Music Society.
Presbyterian-Congregational Church, 3:00 pm
214 Vaughn Ave
Ashland, WI 54806 United States

ShurAngiz will be performed by the wonderful pianist, Nahzanin Maleki Amin, and her ensemble at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

Fly Toward a Secret Sky for flute and electronics will be performed by Nightingale Ensemble's flutist, Alexandria Hoffman. The Pride Arts Center is located at 4139 N Broadway St, Chicago

The Stars Are Setting is composed for mandolin orchestra, guitar quartet, voice and strings based on 4 quatrains by Hakim Omar Khayyam (1048 – 1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. This composition was commissioned by the Seattle Mandolin Orchestra in conjunction with the Seattle-Isfahan Music Project.

For more information about the project please visit: https://www.naeimrahmani.com/seattle-isfahan-guitar-project

My duo, The Seville Orange Tree, composed for flute and piano will be performed as part of Fulcrum Point Discoveries: Hear & Be Heard programs.
Fine Arts Building Suite 943, Chicago, IL.
410 S Michigan, Chicago, IL 60605
The event is free and open to public.

A Cup of Sin is composed based on the poetry of Nobel Prize-nominated Iranian poet Simin Behbahani and commissioned by Tim Brady for Instruments of Happiness - The Lioness of Iran Project. It will be on tour Spring 2018.

The creation of this composition was made possible by a generous grant form the Ontario Arts Council Project Grant.