Composer

Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA) is a group of artists who have combined their experiences and creativity to provide a platform for otherwise-unheard musical voices from inside Iran and the Iranian diaspora and to build and support a growing community of female and non-binary identifying composers. IFCA has curated and produced concerts at various significant venues including the Kennedy Center’s Direct Current Festival and Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival. This special multi-genre collaboration is curated in partnership with Seattle Symphony musicians and will include a multi-media world premiere piece crafted for Octave 9.

EPSG:4326

Composing Iran

Benaroya Hall

This concert features the Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen, who has frequently collaborated with the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, in a new work by Aida Shirazi. Since receiving her doctorate in music composition from UC Davis in 2021, Shirazi has been gaining attention far and wide for her acoustic and electro-acoustic music, which a New York Times music critic described as “unfolding with deliberation.” In Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony the audience will enjoy the composer’s Slavonic spirit in an energetic and varied musical landscape.

UC Davis Symphony Orchestra: "Musical Landscapes"

Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

Boston Conservatory’s contemporary performance ensemble contraBAND starts the spring semester with a world premiere by Berklee College faculty member Tamar Diesendruck, featuring Boston Conservatory faculty Philipp Staüdlin. The concert also includes works by Eivind Buene, Aida Shirazi, and Benjamin Scheuer.

New Music Festival: contraBAND

Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Possessing a “tone that draws in one’s ear with sounds and ideas that simply cannot be resisted” (Philadelphia Inquirer), flutist Julietta Curenton joins “leading new-music foursome” (New York Times) the JACK Quartet in a concert that includes the Philadelphia premiere of Iranian composer Aida Shirazi’s Vestiges. The program concludes with John Zorn’s Nachträglichkeit, a work for string quartet and flute that is full of surprises, from extremely quiet moments to unexpected, fast blows.

Aida Shirazi

Composer

Events

Past events

Nov 22, 2024

Composing Iran · Seattle Symphony

Jun 1, 2024

UC Davis Symphony Orchestra: "Musical Landscapes" · Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

About

Aida Shirazi hasn't added a bio