The Cheswatyr Commissions: a Composers Now project with funding from the Cheswatyr Foundation
Inaugural Year 2022: Celebrating the Legacy of Cece Wasserman with a new work by Niloufar Nourbakhsh for the International Contemporary Ensemble
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Amanda Gookin’s Forward Music Project 2.0: In this Skin is released on Bright Shiny Things. Niloufar’s “Veiled” for solo cello and live electronics is included in this compilation. For more information, refer to the following LINK.
Ensemble Decipher has toured SUNY schools across the NY state with new commissions from SUNY faculty and students. More information and media can be found HERE
‘Concerts@Home’ series’ latest episode is a conversation between Adrian Spence and Niloufar Nourbakhsh about her recent works.
21 for ’21, Composers and performers who sound like tomorrow:
The 29-year-old pianist and composer (and Ensemble Decipher member) first popped up on my desktop as a contributor to the Library of Congress’s pandemic-response Boccaccio Project. Her entry, “A Shared Solitary” — a searing solo work for violin and electronics, performed by Jannina Norpoth of the PUBLIQuartet — felt like a line drawing of a far more complex musical universe.
New works by Stacy Garrop, Michael Gilbertson, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Theo Chandler, and Jeff Scott with the poetry of Marsha Music.
The Detroit-based Akropolis Reed Quintet, whose playing has been described as “shot through with tenderness and grace” by the San Francisco Chronicle, releases its fourth album on April 9 on New Focus Recordings. The record, entitled Ghost Light, is an exploration of darkness and light, life-cycles, colors and spectrum, and how the past surrounds us in our daily lives.
This month, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN and American Composers Forum will host a series of Zoom roundtable discussions on gender equity in the contemporary arts as part of our shared UNEVEN MEASURES series. Through interviews, collaborative essays, artist-curated playlists, and live discussions, UNEVEN MEASURES marks the centennial anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment while recognizing the complexity of women’s suffrage and barriers to participation that still exist today.
The last roundtable, ADVOCATING FOR GENDER EQUITY, will take place on Monday, October 19, 2020, 5:00pm EDT, 4:00pm CDT, 3:00pm MDT, 2:00pm PDT. The panelists will be: Sarah Cahill, Terri Lyne Carrington, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Nirmala Rajasekar, and Aiden Kim Feltkamp.
Zoom registration link: https://zoom.us/…/tJAkdO6vpjksHNSIuN7-UxtBE77-uPrhjIxR
Out today on National Sawdust tracks. With Niloufar Nourbakhsh Inti Figgis-vizueta Emma O’Halloran X. Lee, Kayla Cashetta Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir produced by Jeffrey Zeigler conducted by the brilliant Lidiya Yankovskaya with the NS Ensemble (shout outs to Jeffrey Zeigler Chris Grymes Allison Loggins-Hull Miranda Cuckson Ian Rosenbaum Sugar Vendil Kathy Tagg Oran Etkin Madeleine Healyand Refugee Orchestra Project and design by Zan Emerson. Such thanks to Alexander Sanger for his vision and the Toulmin Foundation. And our judges! Du Yun Angelica Negron Joan La Barbara Gavilán Rayna Russom Tania J. Leon and producer Eve O’Donnell score design Bahar Royai Marc Urselli
Nilou Nour | Composer Pianist 
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