| Haleh Abghari _________________________________________________ |
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| Photos by H. Lee Hirsche |
| ______________________________________________________________________________ B i t s a n d P i e c e s ______________________________________________________________________________ Currently hosting and programming for WNYC Radio Overnight Music (Starting again on May 14) ______________________ Performing Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies with Thamyris Steve Everett, conductor Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Emory University, Atlanta, GA Friday, Feb 6, 2009 Still searching for Bedanka Dankovic . . . Summer 2008: Concerts at the CrossSound Music Festival in Alaska, Aug-Sept 2008. Concerts of the music of Georges Aperghis and master-classes at the IFCP Festival at Mannes, June 2008. Read the New York Times review of the Aperghis concert here. ________________________________________________________________________________ Voice of the Soul A video performance project in collaboration with artist Remo Spada. Watch the video on YouTube View photos of an installation of the video as part of an exhibit in Lecce, Italy on the theme of violence against women: http://f360.altervista.org/thevoice.html |
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| Since March 2002 |
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| © Haleh Abghari |
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Recent Engagements include: Three appearances in Italy at Teatro Manzoni and Etnafest with VIA and with composer Raz Mesinai; Eight Songs for A Mad King with the New York New Music Ensemble at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City and at The University of Buffalo; four performances as part of a residency at the Whitney Museum with VIA; soundtrack for Destiny Manifesto with animation artist Martha Colburn; the Schoenberg Second String Quartet with the Cascade Quartet; BodyMaps, a multimedia collaboration (in residence at Sound Res in Lecce, Italy, June 2007); world premiere of Matthew Burtner's new electronic opera, Kuik, at the Staunton Music Festival; world premiere of songs by Fred Ho at the Guggenheim Museum, NYC; Concert of new works with Cygnus at Weill Recital Hall (March 2008); Music of Georges Aperghis at the IFCP Festival (June 2008); and Love, Death, Guitar, a recording of contemporary and Elizabethan songs for voice and guitar with William Anderson. |
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| Photos and video by Remo Spada |
| ________________________________________________________________________________ The performance of Eight Songs for a Mad King with the New York New Music Ensemble at Merkin Hall, NYC (May 2007) made MusicWeb International's list of Performances of 2007. _________________________________________________________________________________ Interview on Ear to Ear with David Garland on WNYC (New York’s Public Radio station). You can listen to the interview and hear samples of old and recent performances at: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/eveningmusic/episodes/2007/10/13 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Thank you for visiting. ______________________________________________________ |
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