Award-winning Iranian-American composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh wrote that her difficult, affecting piece Aid for Sex was inspired by a 2018 U.N. report that explored how aid workers will help Syrian refugees with one hand and exploit them with the other. The piece, Nourbakhsh wrote, features a chaotic soundscape — emblematic of the environment in which refugees live — that develops into something more harmonious by the end.
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Composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh and the Emruz Festival 2024’s “Whispers of the Flesh” informs the mind through the difficult means of the body, transcending music and text in solidarity with “Woman, Life, Freedom” to be felt for generations to come.
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Composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh joined the American Composers Orchestra last month as a mentor for the EarShot Readings alongside composers Marcos Balter, and Curtis Stewart.
June 13, 2024
Neidorff-Karpati Hall, Manhattan School of Music, New York City, NY
American Composers Orchestra, Conductor: Delta David Gier
Featured Artists and Works
Malachi Brown: Statements- a journal entry
Samuel Torres Frailejón
Sofía Scheps: Demografía acústica: % / Acoustic Demography: %)
Anuj Bhutani: After the Freeze
Madeline Merwin: Dirty Ice
Eunsung Kim*: Kaleidoscope for Orchestra
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