Inspired by the “Woman, Life, Freedom” Movement that erupted in Iran and around the world in 2022, Emruz Festival 2024 performances are focused on shining light on the struggles and triumphs of Iranian and Afghan Women.

Through 3 different music and theater performances, Emruz Festival aims to investigate and express different voices that intersect on the urgency of freedom; the urgency of connection; and the urgency to listen with intensity.

National Sawdust, Williamsburg, NYC

Oistrakh Symphony of Chicago presents: Avant Garden (April 25, 2024)

Performance of “Happiness filled the space of sadness” 7:00 pm Holtschneider Performance Center, Gannon Concert Hall, Chicago

Cobalt Quartet at Scholes Street Studio (April 21st, 2024)

Anthony Izzo performs “Of breath and feeding back” Scholes Street Studio, 375 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY 11206

UPenn Music in the Pavillion Series (Apr. 10, 2024)

Daedalus Quartet performs “Logic Run Wild”, 6:15pm – 9:00pm

Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor

The University of Alabama Contemporary Ensemble Concert (Mar. 19, 2024)

Performance of “Veiled” for Cello and Live Electronics,

Moody Music Building 140 Recital Hall 810 2nd Avenue, Tuscaloosa

Fear No Music, Iran/America: Common Themes, Different Worlds (Mar. 18, 2024)

Performance of “Aid for Sex” Monday, March 18, 2024
7:30 PM 9:30 PM
The Old Church Concert Hall1422 Southwest 11th AvenuePortland, OR, 97201United States (map)

International Women’s Day Celebration at Duke University (Mar. 8, 2024)

Mezzo-Soprano Solmaz Adeli and Pianist Ava Nazar perform “Threshold of a cold season” and “HbeaRt” Duke University, Durham, NC

Splinter Reeds at University of Texas at Austin (Mar. 7, 2024)

Performance of “Firing Squad” for reed quintet and electronics, Bates Recital Hall, Thursday, March 7, 2024, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Duke University Emamian lectureship series (Mar. 6, 2024)

Social Change in the Realm of Classical Music, With members of the Iranian Female Composers Association

Nick Photinos at University of North Texas (Mar. 5, 2024)

Nick Photinos performs “Veiled” for Cello and Live Electronics

SHE: Festival of Women in Music (Mar. 1-3, 2024)

Lecture presentation, Voices of Equality: Iranian Women at a Historical Moment. Performance of “Syria, a fractal of WE” Billingsley Music Building 201, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701

Shared Faculty Artist Recital with Dr. Corrine Byrne (Feb. 28, 2024)

Longy School of Music, Pickman Hall, Cambridge, MA 8:00 pm

23rd Annual CSUF New Music Series presents loadbang (Feb. 27, 2024)

Performance of “Bag of Bones”, Fullerton, CA

Chatter presents loadbang at SITE Santa Fe (Feb. 25, 2024)

Performance of “Bag of Bones”, Albuquerque, NM

Chatter presents loadbang at SITE Santa Fe (Feb. 24, 2024)

Performance of “Bag of Bones”, Santa Fe, NM

Orchestra FLEX Spring Concert (Feb. 17, 2024)

Performance of “En Cherchant” conducted by Andy Kozar, Longy School of Music, Pickman Hall, Cambridge, MA 8:00 pm

VIENNA BEETHOVEN CONSERVATORY (Feb 10, 2024)

Flaka Goranci peforms “The Window” as part of her La Femme Project.

02/10/2024 | 7:00 p.m. | Honorable Hall

A Broken Hallelujah (Feb. 10, 11, 2024)

Led by Music Director Emeritus, Steven Schick, witness the world premiere of Nasim Khorasasani’s new work, winner of the 2024 Nee Commission. Takemitsu’s graceful From Me flows what you call Time, performed by the ensemble Red Fish Blue Fish. Niloufar Nourbakhsh’s Veiled features a performance by cellist Robert Bui, complemented by electronics and video.

The program culminates with Stravinsky’s masterpiece, Le Sacre du Printemps.

The Taproot New Music Festival at UC-Davis (Feb. 10, 2024)

Splinter Reeds perform “Firing Squad” along other works from their repertoire, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Faculty and Guest Artist Chamber Music Showcase (Feb. 4, 2024)

This concert will feature the talents of UNCSA faculty Tadeu Coelho on flute, Oskar Espina Ruiz on clarinet, Robert Young on saxophone, Stephanie Patterson on bassoon, Maria Serkin on French horn and Ksenija Komljenovic on percussion. The program includes works by living composers Tania León, Du Yun, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Dai Fujikura, Oswald Huỳnh and Jeff Scott.

Only Voice Remains (Jan. 20, 2024)

Artist Performers for Only Voice Remains

Mahya Hamedi, Ava Nazar, Farnaz Ohadi, Karen Ouzounian & Abigail Sinclair, featuring the world premiere of “Dawn” by Niloufar Noubakhsh, on texts by Persian poet Farrokhzad, performed by vocalist Mahya Hamedi and pianist Ava Nazar

Ensemble for these times (Jan. 20, 2024)

Quest for Solo Piano, Center for New Music 55 Taylor Street San Francisco, CA 94102 United States, 7:30 pm PST

Nobel Peace Prize Concert (Dec. 11, 2023)

Nowegian Radio Orchestra will perform “Knell” in celebration of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Narges Mohammadi

Thomas Giles at National Sawdust (Dec. 11, 2023)

A shared solitary for Alto Flute, National Sawdust, NYC

Amnesty International Benefit Concert (Dec 10th, 2023)

3PM, at Christ & St. Stephen’s Church on W. 69th St. in Manhattan.

Solissima – Francoise Vanhecke (Dec. 7, 2023)

Françoise Vanhecke performs “the window” for voice and electronics, Antwerp, Belgium.

Liederabend (Nov. 19, 2023)

Flaka Goranci performs “The Window” at Konzerthaus Berlin, Kleiner Saal

Jacksonville Electroacoustic Music Festival (Nov. 18, 2023)

Nick Photinos performs “Veiled” for Cello and Electronics, Florida

Solissima – Francoise Vanhecke (Nov. 16, 2023)

Françoise Vanhecke performs “the window” for voice and electronics, Auditorium, Muziekcentrum Track, Conservatorium Kortrijk, Belgium.

Guest Artist Recital, Molly Morkoski (Nov. 15, 2023)

Prelude of Preludes at UMKC, Grant Recital Hall, 7:30 pm

Steinway’s Educational Partners Program (Nov. 14, 2023)

Donna Weng Friedman performs “F I X E D HbeaRt” as part of her event 5 composers and 1 pianist at NY Steinway Hall.

Bargemusic (Nov. 12, 2023)

Donna Weng Friedman performs “F I X E D HbeaRt” 4:00 pm

Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY 11201

“a thousand birds will chant your song” Amsterdam Sinfonietta (Nov. 10 – 15, 2023)

New Work for Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Netherlands

Long Distance, Donald Berman at Barge Music (Nov. 5, 2023)

Long Distance brings together piano works that speak to stories of displacement. Primarily focused on contemporary works written over the past 40 years, this program showcases composers — many of whom were dislocated from their countries, sometimes by force — who connect to their homelands through music both turbulent and peaceful.

Sonic Liberation Players – Ecstatic Visions (Nov. 4, 2023)

White Helmets, as white as death, First Parish Watertown, 35 Church Street, Watertown, MA 02472 7:00 pm

Splice Festival (Nov. 3, 2023)

Novel Interfaces of Expression, Workshop at Berklee College of Music

921 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02115

Loadbang Ensemble at Tenri Cultural Institute (Oct. 29, 2023)

NY Premiere of “Bag of Bones”

Tenri Cultural Institute43A West 13th Street New York, NY 10011

Cycles of Resistance (Oct.28, 2023)

Chelsea Hollow performs “Darkness of the Womb” at 222 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg, CA 95448

Long Distance, Donald Berman (Oct. 28, 2023)

Longy School of Music of Bard College

Ensemble Decipher at Roulette (Oct. 23, 2023)

World premiere of a new piece by composer Bora Yoon alongside multiple NY premieres of new decipher commissions, Roulette intermedium, Brooklyn, NY

Mizzou New Music Initiative Guest Recital – Splinter Reeds (Oct. 20)

Featuring works by Jon Yu, Eric Wubbels, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Paula Matthusen, Ned McGowan, and a world premiere by Stefan Freund, supported by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition

Live at the Gallery – Françoise Vanhecke (Oct. 7, 2023)

Françoise Vanhecke performs “the window” for voice and electronics, Antwerp, Belgium

Cycles of Resistance (Sep.28, 2023)

Chelsea Hollow performs “Darkness of the Womb” at Brooklyn Art Haus

SOLO HARP RECITAL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA (Sep. 18, 2023)

Elisabeth Remy Johnson performs works by Aldridge, Assad, Beach, Bonis, Carwithen, de Montesquiou, Nourbakhsh, Plowman, and more. Pitman Recital Hall, September 19, 8 p.m.

Kirin McElwain / Kimia Hesabi & Erin Murphy Snedecor / Heather Stebbins (Sep. 15, 2023)

Kimia Hesabi performs “Veiled” for viola and electronics, Rhizome, DC

97 Ensemble at Fidelio Cafe (Sep. 15, 2023)

97 Ensemble presents a vibrant program of new music, poetry and improvisation, centered around the work of composers who are Iranian womxn, encompassing British-Iranian artists, and those living in Iran and internationally. Performance of “Logic Run Wild” and “Because we also are what we have lost”, London, UK, 19:00 BST

Festival of New Trumpet Music (Sep. 10, 2023)

Fifth Bridge Ensemble performs “A space-time magnifying glass”

Kultursommerfestival Berlin 2023 (Aug. 28, 2023)

Muriel Razavi performs “Veiled” for Viola and Electronics, Berlin, 7:00 pm

Breckenridge International Festival of Arts (August 17, 2023)

Written, Narrated + Conducted by Steven Schick
Featuring Members of the National Repertory Orchestra, “Veiled” for Cello and Electronics

Park City Chamber Music Festival (Jul. 30, 2023)

Matt Haimovitz performs “Cyclical Rabbits” at Park City Community Church 4501 Utah 224 Park City, UT 84098

Avaloch Farm Music Institute (Jul. 16 – 23, 2023)

workshop of a new piece for Clarinettist Yasmina Spiegelberg

Avaloch Farm Music Institute (Jul. 14, 2023)

Karen Ouzounian performs “veiled” for cello and live electronics

Walden Memory Beach (Jul. 1 2023)

Festival for contemporary music and performance, “Veiled” by Muriel Razavi and Raha Nejad, Künstlerhof Frohnau and the former border strip, Berlin

New Music Gathering (Jun. 22 – 24)

June 23rd: Performances with Ensemble Decipher

June 24th: Chelsea Hollow performs song cycle: “Darkness of the Womb”

New Lights Festival (June 20, 2023)

Concert 2: Defiance

Contemporary Iranian Composers

Works by distinguished Iranian composers Soosan Lolavar, Atefeh Einali, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Amir Konjani. The evening includes the premiere of Amir Konjani’s Trumpet Concertante no. 2 with alum trumpeter Adam Hebditch and a new adaptation of Soosan Lolavar’s piece Inventory on My Life for piano and dance. Trinity Laban Conservatory, London, UK 6:30 pm

Divergent Studio, Longy Conservatory (Jun. 15-21, 2023)

Guest Composer, Premiere of “Bag of Bones” written for Loadbang Ensemble

Ojai Festival: THE WILLOWS ARE NEW (Jun. 10, 2023)

Karen Ouzounian will perform “veiled” for cello and live electronics

Zenith Chamber Music Festival (Jun. 7, 2023)

Matt Haimovitz, cello – Des Moines, IA – PRIMAVERA: Through the Centuries

the International Trumpet Guild Conference (Jun. 1, 2023)

Fifth Bridge Ensemble premieres “A space-time magnifying glass”

97 Ensemble at City University of London (May 31, 2023)

97 Ensemble present a vibrant programme of new music, poetry and improvisation, centred around the work of British-Iranian composers, and including the premiere of Golfam Khayam’s Among Streets, Windows and Times, specially commissioned by Professor Laudan Nooshin as part of the Sonic Tehran Project.

American Music, Nick Photinos & Andy Hudson (May 25, 2023)

International Week of New Music, Nick Photinos performs “Veiled” for cello and electronics.

National University of Music Bucharest, Sala George Enescu, Bucharest, ROMANIA

Basma and Ava Duo at Mazza Castle (May. 20, 2023)

Pianist Ava Nazar performs HbeaRt for Piano and Electronics, The Mazza Castle 900 Mirador Terrace Pacifica, CA 94044

Primavera Project: Cyclical Rabbits (May 6, 2023)

Boston Premiere of Cyclical Rabbits, Carriage House Violins, Boston Showroom

236 Huntington Avenue, Suite 301
Boston, MA 02115

Primavera Project: Cyclical Rabbits (Apr. 21, 2023)

Matt Haimovitz will perform “Cyclical Rabbits” alongside other works from the Primavera compilation. BargeMusic, Brooklyn 7:00 pm

Cuatro Puntos Ensemble: Sounds of Persia (Apr. 13,14, 16)

Cuatro Puntos Ensemble performs “Logic Run Wild”, concerts in CT

Marfa, TX – PRIMAVERA: Figures and Shadows (Apr. 14, 2023)

Join Matt Haimovitz as he presents this dynamic program at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX.

Celebrate Women (Apr. 11, 2023)

Patricia Green, mezzo soprano
Andrea Willis, soprano
Megaria Halim, piano

will perform works by Auerbach, Fung, Larsen, Nourbakhsh, Spavelko, Uyeda at Museum London, Ontario, CA

Heidelberg Spring Music Festival (Apr. 6, 2023)

The Iranian-American violist Muriel Razavi did her doctorate on re-orientalism in music and incorporates her preoccupation with political and social issues into her SPRINGboard concert. For this she has developed a solo performance in five musical scenes. The music comes from the Iranian composers Aida Shirazi, Bahar Royaee, Niloufar Nourbakhsh and Farzia Fallah and tells the story of a woman who resists political and social restrictions and gives other women hope and courage with her newly won freedom.

SYLVIA ADALMAN FACULTY RECITAL SERIES: Ensemble Decipher (Apr. 3, 2023)

Performing works by Rogers, Schedel, Georinger, Kimura, and Bohigian, Joe Byrd Hall, Peabody Institute, Baltimore MD 7:30 pm

Ensemble Decipher / Sideband / Warp Duo (Mar. 31, 2023)

Friday March 31 * doors at 7, music at 730 * TICKETS

Operatic Feminism, Columbia University (Mar. 25, 2023)

This event bridges the worlds of scholarship, performance, and criticism to think through the possibilities for feminist opera studies and women in opera in the twenty-first century.

Millennium Chamber Players (Mar. 24, 2023)

Performance of “Aid for Sex” by Alexander-Wu and guest performers in East Village, NYC

John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium (Mar. 23, 2023)

Splinter Reeds performs “Firing Squad”, UNM Keller Hall, 7:30 pm

Metropolitan Piano Series (Mar.18, 2023)

Beata Moon will perform “Quest” for piano

7:30 PM 9:00 PM
The Church-in-the-Gardens 50 Ascan Avenue Forest Hills, NY 11375

Primavera Project: Cyclical Rabbits (Mar. 18, 2023)

Matt Haimovitz will perform “Cyclical Rabbits” alongside other works from the Primavera compilation. Palazzo Degas, Calata Trinità Maggiore, 53
80134 Napoli, Italia 7:00 pm

Unfinished Work, Musicians of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra (Mar. 8, 2023)

“Firing Squad” – TSO invites you to a chamber music concert on the occasion of international Women’s day, with a special focus on music by women from Afghanistan, Iran, and Ukraine.

University of Tennessee Knoxville Contemporary Music Festival (Mar. 3, 2023)

Annaliese Kowert, violin, Maya Stone, bassoon, Jesse Strauss, percussion, Brendan Jacklin, piano. Performance of “Syria, a fractal of WE” 5:30 pm

College of the Holy Cross Orchestra (Mar. 1, 2023)

“Lambda of Life’s Frequency” conducted by Michael Carney

Primavera Project: Cyclical Rabbits (Feb. 28, 2023)

Matt Haimovitz will perform “Cyclical Rabbits” alongside other works from the Primavera compilation. Israel Conservatory of Music 8:30 pm

College of the Holy Cross Orchestra (Feb. 22, 2023)

“Lambda of Life’s Frequency” conducted by Michael Carney

When Cultures Clash: Destruction and Synthesis (Feb.16, 2023)

White Helmets as white as death, The Beehive – Prior Performing Arts Center 12:30pm
College of the Holy Cross, MA

Kimia Hesabi Residency at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Jan 31, 2023)

Performance of “Veiled” for Viola and Electronics

Mosaic: Music by Women and Non-binary Composers (Jan. 29, 2023)

Ensemble for These Times perform Cello Sonata No.1

Composition in Asia, symposium and festival (Jan. 28-29, 2023)

Keynote presenter, University of South Florida

Concert #3, “Everything is Dark” 2:00 pm

The Carbondale Salon: Optimism & Activism (Jan. 28, 2023)

Screening of an Aria from “We the innumerable” Opera

Michigan State University (Jan 26-27, 2023)

Performances with Ensemble Decipher

Oistrakh Symphony of Chicago
Presents Avant Garden (Jan. 22, 2023) – Postponed

Kaia String Quartet will present “Happiness filled the space of sadness”

Ancient eve is once again offering apple’s, ultraschall berlin (Jan. 21, 2023)

In the five musical scenes of ancient eve is once again offering apples , the Iranian-American violist Muriel Razavi embodies the life of an Iranian woman – from blossoming to dying 9:00 pm Berlin

Dots+Loops Nonstop 2022 (Dec. 18, 2022)

Nick Photinos performs “Veiled”, Brisbane, Australia

Tempo Rubato (Dec. 16, 2022)

Nick Photinos performs “Veiled”, Melbourne, Australia

New Music Detroit: Sand & Stone (Dec. 9, 2022)

Úna O’Riordan performs “Veiled”, Detroit, Michigan

Tactus Ensemble, Manhattan School of Music (Dec. 6, 2022)

Tactus Ensemble directed by Margaret Kampmeier will perform “Everything is Dark” Ades Performance Space, 7:30 pm

Splinter Reeds at Boston Conservatory’s Houston Hall (Dec. 2, 2022)

Presenting a concert of works by Michael Gordon, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Webb Crawford, György Ligeti, and Sam Pluta. Boston, Massachusetts.

DMA RECITAL: ALEXANDRA SMITHER, Soprano (Nov. 28, 2022)

Alexandra Smither will perform “Thistle” and “serenade”, Elebash Hall, CUNY 6:00 pm.

#be_our_voice (Nov. 28, 2022)

Maria Zwerschke performs “a shared solitary” for alto flute and electronics, Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg, 19:30

IN FOCUS IRAN, HfMT, Forum (Nov. 27, 2022)

Niloufar will join this forum, discussing IFCA, Iranian Female Composers inside Iran and how they have been affected by the “Woman, Life, Freedom” Revolution.

Andrea Clearfield November Zalon (Nov. 20, 2022)

Screening of an Aria from “We the innumerable” Opera

Musicians from the NY Philharmonic at 92NY (Nov. 20, 2022)

“White helmets, as white as death”, NYC

Casual Classics Concert Series (Nov. 7, 2022)

Elisabeth Remy Johnson will perform “Quest” as part of her recital, Marble Hill, Gerogia. More information is available HERE.

University of Northern Iowa (Oct. 27, 2022)

Ashley Killam will perform “My Body, My Choice” as part of her lecture recital, 7:30 pm. Live Stream Link Available HERE

Grand Valley State University (Oct. 27, 2022)

Nick Photinos performs “Veiled”, Allendale Michigan.

University of Texas – Austin, New Music Ensemble (Oct. 24, 2022)

Performance of “America I got to know”

Chamber Music at Bethany (Oct. 23, 2022)

Nick Photinos performs “Veiled”, Chicago, IL

Semi-Staged workshop for “We the innumerable” (Oct. 21, 2022)

Center for Contemporary Opera presents a semi-staged workshop of the opera “we the innumerable” in full at National Sawdust. Libretto by Lisa Flanagan. For tickets click HERE

Cheswatyr Premiere with International Contemporary Ensemble (Oct. 15, 2022)

Premiere of “C Ce See”, Skirball Center at NYU

Splinter Reeds at the University of the pacific (Sep. 16, 2022)

Splinter reeds performs “Firing Squad” at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music, 7:30 pm

Bang on a can summer festival (July. 18, 2022)

Nick Photinos performs “Veiled” at MASS MOCA Contemporary Art Museum, 4:30 pm

The Center for New Music Presents: Rose Hegele & Sarah Cahill (July 16, 2022)

Soprano Rose Hegele performs “the window” for voice and electronics, SF

VCCA Residency (June 28 – July 12, 2022)

Virginia creative center for the arts, Amherst County, Virginia

NYCEMF with Ensemble Decipher (June 26, 2022)

Ensemble Decipher presents Vignette Transfigurations and Toy_3

New Work for Guitar and Violin (June 26th, 2022)

“Because we also are what we have lost” will be premiered by Colin Davin and Kate Dreyfuss, Scholes Studio, Brooklyn, NY

New Work for Guitar and Violin (June 25th, 2022)

“Because we also are what we have lost” will be premiered by Colin Davin and Kate Dreyfuss, Vernon arts center, CT.

BMP Next Generation Finals (June 23 and 24, 2022)

World premiere of “Threshold of Brightness”, a new chamber opera, a tribute to the life of Forugh Farrokhzad, libretto by Lisa Flanagan.

Snow Pond Music Festival (June 20, 2022)

“Firing Squad” at Maine Chamber Music Seminar Final Concert, Alumni Hall

International Low Flutes Festival (June 17th, 2022)

Tessa Brinckman presents A Shared Solitary (2020) by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, an arrangement for alto flute of the original version for violin and MAX patch.

Nief-Norf Summer Festival 2022 (June 9, 2022)

Performance of White Helmets, as white as death

Matt Haimovitz, cello WDR Funkhaus Cologne (June. 1, 2022)

Matt Haimovitz premieres a new work for solo cello “Cyclical Rabbits”, commissioned by The Primavera Project.

D-bü – Wettbewerb (May 27, 2022)

Muriel Razavi performs “Veiled” for Viola and Live Electronics, Trossingen, Germany

Composing New Perspectives – Loadbang Ensemble (May 17, 2022)

The Iranian Female Composers Association and loadbang partner to present works by composers Fojan Gharibnejad, Bahar Royaee, Nasim Khorassani, Kimia Koochakzadeh, Yasaman Ghodsi, Golfam Khayam, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh 7:30 pm, National Opera Center, NYC

The Music She Writes (May 13th, 2022)

a Celebration of Asian Female Composers, “Would the Miracle Ever Come?”

Manchester New Music Festival (May 7, 2022)

Nick Photinos will perform “Veiled” for cello and electronics

the Manchester University campus in North Manchester, Indiana, Wine Recital Hall, 7:00 pm

Emruz Festival (May 1-7, 2022)

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Manhattan, NYC

University of Tennessee Southern (April 28th, 2022)

Pianist Brendan Jacklin performs “She Waltz” for Piano and Violin

Composing New Perspectives – Loadbang Ensemble (April 17, 2022)

Sounds Modern Presents REPLAY (April 16, 2022)

“white helmets, as white as death” is presented by Sounds Modern at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Composing New Perspectives – Loadbang Ensemble (April 12, 2022)

Elizabeth Remy Johnson Harp Recital (Mar. 14, 2022)

Elizabeth will perform “Quest” arranged for Solo Harp as part of her recital, St. Catherine’s Episcopal in Marietta, 3 p.m

Shriver Hall Concert Series (Mar. 6, 2022)

Two-time Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke will perform the world premiere of “the threshold of a cold season” Baltimore, 5:30 pm

Metropolitan Piano Stories (Feb. 26, 2022)

Nourbakhsh performs her own “Fixed HbeaRt” for piano and live electronics, Musica Reginae Productions, Queens, NY. 7:30 pm

Florida State University, Festival of New Music (Feb 5, 2022)

Members of the International Contemporary Ensemble join composer Pamela Z in Florida State University’s celebration of new music. They will perform “Firing Squad” as part of this program. Kuersteiner Music Building, Opperman Music Hall

ANIM Composition Residency (Jan 29, 2022)

New Music USA will premiere the virtual concert presentation of ANIM composition residency pieces by members of Zohra Orchestra, Virtual Youtube Link.

Towards Sound Project (Dec 17 – Jan 9, 2022)

Exhibition of handwritten sketches by IFCA composers, Hilbertraum, Berlin.

Hypercube Ensemble (Dec. 15, 2021)

Hypercube presents works by members of the New York Women Composers collective. New work for Sax and Guitar by Niloufar will be premiered at Renee Weiler Concert Hall, Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow St, New York, NY 10014

FACE The Music and Imani Winds (Dec. 7, 2021)

Musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s Face the Music teen new music program will perform a new rendition of “remember me”, directed by Aakash Mittal.

Jeremy Huw Williams and Paula Fan in Concert (Nov. 10, 2021)

“An Aria for the Executive Order”, A Facebook Live Broadcast of Baritone Jeremy Huw Williams and pianist Paula Fan. From The Music Hall on the campus of Cal State LA, November 10th, at 7:30 PM

Ensemble Decipher NY State Tour (Nov. 8 – 20, 2021)

Stony Brook University – Nov. 8

Purchase Conservatory – Nov. 9

SUNY Oswego – Nov. 10 – 12

Albany – Nov. 13

Buffalo State University – Nov. 15

SUNY Fredonia – Nov. 17

Roulette, Brooklyn – Nov. 18

Alchemical Studios, Manhattan – Nov. 19

Davies Concert Series (Nov. 7, 2021)

Kimia Hesabi performs “Veiled” for Viola and Electronics, 5 pm

Spark Duo in Brooklyn (Nov. 5, 2021)

Spark Duo presents the world premiere of “Everything is Dark” 8:00 pm, Scholes Street Studio

Towson University, DNMC conference (Nov. 4, 2021)

Kimia Hesabi performs “Veiled” for Viola and Electronics

Sixth & I Historic Synagogue (Nov. 3, 2021)

Pianist Lara Downes presents “Prelude of Preludes” and “Quest” for solo piano, Washington DC, 7:00 pm

IFCA SHOWCASE (Oct. 22/23/24, 2021)

Video feature of “Solitary Confinement Aria” from “we the innumerable” in Berlin, presented by Tehran Contemporary Sounds 2021 Festival.

Aural Architectures (Oct. 16, 2021)

Premiere of “Governing Bodies” for Percussion, Electronics, and Solo Dancer, Stony Brook University, Staller Center for the Arts, 7:30 pm

Women’s Chamber Orchestra of Austria (Oct. 3, 2021)

Flaka Goranci performs “The Window” for Voice and fixed media, Volkskundemuseum Wien, 11:30 AM

George Washington University (Oct. 2, 2021)

Kimia Hesabi performs “Veiled” for Viola and Electronics

Dinosaur Annex presents music by Niloufar Nourbakhsh (Oct. 2, 2021)

Amal El-Shrafi performs “An Aria for the Executive Order” and “Darkness of the Womb” 7:30pm at Watertown First Church, Boston

AURA Contemporary Ensemble (Sep 27, 2021)

“White Helmets, as white as death”, Moores Opera House and Virtual Livestream, University of Houston – MORE INFO

Composers Now, Curated by Mari Kimura (Sep 24, 2021)

Short Online Performances by Ensemble Decipher, curated as a segment of Mari Kimura‘s curator event

Women’s Labor Project (Sep. 18, 2021)

Premiere of “Greyscale”, co-composed with Chelsea Loew, scored for 3D printed Irons and Percussion, Governor’s Island, NYC

Splinter Reeds: Back in the room (Aug 22, 2021)

“Firing Squad” performed by Splinter Reeds, Center for New Music, SF – 7:30 For more info please click HERE

New Music Gathering (Aug 17, 2021)

Consensus: Community Sonified, an installation by Ensemble Decipher

New Music for Strings (Aug 12 – 19, 2021)

Concerts with Ensemble Decipher, Denmark

Boulanger Initiative WoCo Fest 2021 (June 5, 2021)

Amanda Gookin of Forward Music Project performs “Veiled” for Cello and Electronics, STRATHMORE TRAWICK TERRACE, MD

Infra Sounds presents: The Sky is Every Wall (June 5, 2021)

Infra Sound performs “white helmets, as white as death”,

Queens NYC 7:30 EDT

Beth Morrison Next Generation Finalists (May 27 2021)

a digital premiere from “we the innumerable”, Scene II: Ashura

Lunch Concert with Bronx Arts Ensemble (May 27, 2021)

BAE performs “America I Got to Know”, arranged by Evelyn Petcher

From the Cosmos to the Soul: A Celebration of Women’s Music (May 19, 2021)

Rose Hegele performs “The Window” 2:30 pm EDT

Sounds Modern/Shirin Neshat exhibition (May 15 2021)

White Helmets, as white as death, curated by Dr. Elizabeth McNutt

Sounds Modern, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas

RISE (May 8, 2021)

Vocal Music and Poetry Created by Women from Iran and from the Iranian Diaspora Performed by Anne Harley, 6:30 pm

A Multifaceted Career Speaker Series (Apr. 27, 2021)

Niloufar will speak about her career outside of being a composer, involved with Iranian Female Composers Association, Emruz Festival, and Ensemble Decipher at Longy School of Music.

Violin Plus (Apr. 18, 2021)

Violinist Audrey Wright performs “a Shared Solitary” for solo violin and live electronics.

3 pm EST, More info HERE

Empowering Women in Opera (Apr. 17, 2021)

A virtual salon and fundraiser in support of Opera America’s Mentorship Program for Women Administrators, featuring Karen Slack, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, and Anne Midgette

Center for Contemporary Opera, (Apr. 10, 2021)

Behind the Collaboration of “We the innumerable”, a conversation between composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Librettist Lisa Flanagan, Stage Director Harris Doran, Soprano Corrine Byrne, vocalist Golnar Shahyar, and author Nahid Siamdoust. An aria from the opera will also be premiered online, choreographed by Shadi Ghaheri.

Ghost Light Album Release with Akropolis Reed Quintet, (Apr. 9, 2021)

To register for this event please click HERE

Historical look at gender issues in Iran’s music scene (Mar. 6,7,8, 2021)

The Webinar Series “Iranian Womxn in Music” is a research collaboration between (IFCA) Iranian Female Composers Association and Female Voice of Iran curated by ethnomusicologist Yalda Yazdani

Chicago Opera Theater, Inner Workings Series (Jan. 5, 2021)

What are our social responsibilities as artists? Are there subjects that artists should leave to others? How do we ensure that our work creates dialogue rather than alienating our audiences – and how do we work with other sectors to make a difference?

Featuring Derrell Acon, Jamie Barton, Niloufar Nourbakhsh

Moderated by COT Staley Music Director Lidiya Yankovskaya

Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Residency (Month of December)

NowNet Arts Conference (Nov. 6, 2020)

Ensemble Decipher performs works by Lainie Fefferman, Yaz Lancaster, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Sam Beebe, and Eric Lemmon. 1 pm EST Livestream on Vimeo

Max Lifchitz Piano Recital (Oct. 30, 2020)

Max Lifchitz performs FIXED HbeaRt as part of NYWC grant recipient at National Opera Center, NYC 4:00 pm. Livestream HERE

World Harp Day (Oct. 20, 2020)

Elisabeth Remy Johnson performs “Quest” arranged for Harp by Elizabeth herself. Live Stream HERE

IFCA works for Strings with ICEensemble (Oct. 20, 2020)

The International Contemporary Ensemble presents an evening of exploring string works by members of the Iranian Female Composers Association. Ensemble musicians Josh Modney (violinist), Kyle Armbrust (violist), Wendy Richman (violist), and Michael Nicolas (cellist) will discuss each work with the composers, diving into compositional process and collaboration.

With Rumi, Mandala Arts (Sep. 26, 2020)

At the intersection of spirituality and design, With Rumi explores the expression of words through calligraphy, dance, animation and music. The beloved Sufi poet’s vast writings on love are streamed live in this new multimedia work presented by Chicago based choreographer, Pranita Nayar and Mandala Arts. Click HERE for screening info and tickets.

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Berling Prize documentaries (August 27)

Muriel Razavi performs “Veiled” for Viola and Live Electronics, 2 pm EST. Watch the screening HERE.

Network Music Festival (Jul. 15, 2020) – virtual premiere

SynthBeats, Stony Brook University’s resident laptop ensemble, performs world premiere works for networked laptop ensemble by Sam Beebe, Niloufar Nourbakhsh and Eric Lemmon.

Boccaccio Project by Library of Congress (Jun. 25, 2020) – virtual premiere

Composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh has been paired with violinist Jannina Norpoth of the PUBLIQuartet to write a new work for violin and electronics, entitled A Shared Solitary.

Emruz Festival (Jun. 15 – 22, 2020) – postponed

Rattlestick theater, presenting 10 performances and 5 free workshops.

Workshop of “We The Innumerable” (Jun. 9, 2020) – postponed

“We the Innumerable” semi-staged workshop at Opera America, Placido Hall, 7:30 pm.

Long Play Festival, BOC (May. 1-3, 2020) – postponed

National Sawdust Ensemble performs “Aid for Sex” as part of Hildegard Competition Winners Concert.

Women in Music-Columbus (Apr. 5, 2020) – postponed

Presenting “Firing Squad” at Huntington Recital Hall on the campus of Capital University, Columbus, OH at 3:00pm

Female Composers Festival (Mar. 29, 2020) – postponed

Curated by Shiau-uen DING, this festival will feature an hour long composer portrait of Niloufar Nourbakhsh, 8:30 pm

UNK New Music Festival(Mar. 13-14, 2020) – postponed

Pianist Brendan Jacklin performs HbeaRt as part of The University of Nebraska at Kearney New Music Festival, NE

TENACITY: In spite of all (Mar. 14, 2020) – postponed

Chamber Project St. Louis presents White Helmets, as white as death, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis 7:30pm

University of Massachusetts Lowell (Feb. 27)

Sophia Vastek performs “Fixed HbeaRt” at Durgin Hall at University of Massachusetts Lowell 35 Wilder St Lowell, MA, 1 pm.

Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra (Feb. 21-23, 2020)

KCO performs “Firing Squad” as part of their 6th season, Los Angeles.

Vocal Score Reading of “We The Innumerable” (Feb. 21, 2020)

“We the Innumerable” reading with Brooklyn Opera Works company at Opera America, Private Event. Email Niloufar for more information on attendance.

Random Access Music, “We the people” (Feb. 14, 2020)

Random Access Music celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, extending women’s suffrage across the U.S. Composer/performer collective, RAM has dedicated its season, “We, the Whole People”, to honoring the centenary of the 19th Amendment. Tenri Cultural Center, NYC, 7:00 pm.

Smithsonian Museum, Meyer Auditorium (Feb. 8, 2020)

The intrepid International Contemporary Ensemble performs the music of the Iranian Female Composers Association. This concert will be preceded by a mini-documentary about the composers, DC, 7:30 pm.

Composers’ Now Annual Opening Concert (Jan. 31, 2020)

Featuring music and performances by Lisa Bielawa, Robert Dick,Ilaria Loisa Hawley, Face The Music, Darian Thomas, Noah Becker, and Amanda Gookin who will perform “Veiled” by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, 7:00 pm, Opera America.

Kate Amrine’s CD Release Concert (Jan. 24, 2020)

As part of her release concert, Kate Amrine will perform “My Body, My Choice” for Trumpet and Electronics, Spectrum, NYC.

NYC SongSlam Competition (Jan. 17, 2020)

Premiere of Two vignettes: On loving; The Bird for Piano and Soprano, 7 pm.

Sophia Vastek (Dec. 21 2019)

a performance of “FIXED HbeaRt” at the LINDA, 339 Central Ave, Albany, NY 12206

The Bold City Contemporary Ensemble (Dec. 18, 2019)

a performance of “FIXED HbeaRt” at the CoRK art studios in Jacksonville, FL on December 18th, 7:30 PM

TACTUS (Dec. 9, 2019)

Contemporary Ensemble presents “Logic Run Wild” for String Quartet at Manhattan School of Music, Greenfield Hall, 7:30 pm.

Spark Duo (Sep. 8, 2019)

Kate Amrine premieres “My Body, My Choice”, written for Trumpet and Fixed Media, Spectrum, NYC 3:00 pm.

Nashville Symphony Composer Lab (Sep 3-5, 2019)

World Premiere of Knell, performed by Nashville Symphony Orchestra

Guest Artist Performance (Sep. 5, 2019)

Pianist Brendan Jacklin performs HbeaRt at Middle State Tennessee University

Mostly Mozart Festival (Aug. 5, 2019)

The intrepid International Contemporary Ensemble performs the music of Anahita Abbasi, Aida Shirazi, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh from the Iranian Female Composers Association. This concert will be preceded by a mini-documentary about the composers.

Monday, August 5, 2019 at 7:00 pm Bruno Walter Auditorium

Talis Festival (July 25 – Aug 4, 2019)

New Work for Wind Quintet, Serajevo, Bosnia.

A Voice for the Voiceless: Women (July 28th, 2019)

Los Angeles Premiere of “Darkness of the Womb” written for Soprano Chelsea Hollow, 24 Northam Ave, Newbury Park, CA

A Voice for the Voiceless: Women (July 26th, 2019)

West Coast Premiere of “Darkness of the Womb” written for Soprano Chelsea Hollow, Old First Concerts, San Francisco, CA.

A Voice for the Voiceless: Women (July 23rd, 2019)

World Premiere of “Darkness of the Womb” written for Soprano Chelsea Hollow, Columbia University Teachers College, NYC 7:30 pm

Hildegard Competition Premieres (Jun. 4 2019)

National Sawdust ensemble premieres “Aid for Sex”

Forward Music Project 2.0 (May. 31 2019)

Amanda Gookin performs “Veiled” for Cello and Electronics at the Wallis Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, CA.

State of Emergency: a NYIC benefit concert (May. 27 2019)

Soprano Amal El-Shrafi performs “An Aria for The Executive Order” at Areté Venue and Gallery, NYC.

Random Access Music (May. 17 2019)

RAM performers will present “White helmets as white as death” as part of 8th annual Queens New Music Festival, NYC.

Classical NEXT (May. 16 2019)

Amanda Gookin performs “Veiled” for solo Cello and Electronics as part of ROAM festival, Schouwburgplein, Netherlands.

Emruz Festival (Apr. 28 2019)

Amanda Gookin performs “Veiled” for solo Cello and Electronics as part of IFCA’s solo presentations, 5 pm, Spectrum, NYC

PUBLIQuartet Access Commissions (Apr. 22 2019)

Premiere of “Happiness filled the space of Sadness” written for PUBLIQuartet, National Sawdust, NYC

Another Birth (Apr. 3 2019)

IFCA + HYPERCUBE: Another Birth, Roulette Intermedium NYC

Direct Current Festival (Mar. 30 2019)

IFCA + HYPERCUBE, Presenting three world premieres at Kennedy Center, Washington DC

Women Composers Festival of Hartford (Mar.30 2019)

The Nouveau Classical Project presents FIXED HbeaRt alongside a newly commissioned work by 2019 Composer-in-Residence, Jennifer Jolley, Asylum Hill Congregational Church, CT.

Community Music School of Webster University (Mar. 23-24 2019)

The Community Music School of Webster University will welcome Niloufar Nourbakhsh as Guest Composer for their 2018-2019 Young Composers Competition, St. Louis, Missouri

OK Electric (Mar. 22, 2019)

Cellist Amanda Gookin performing works for cello and electronics by women composers on this theme from her “Forward Music Project.”

Forward Music Project (Mar. 20 2019)

Premiere of “Veiled” for Amanda Gookin, National Sawdust, NYC

Mise-en Place Curator Series (Mar. 15, 2019)

New works by Margaret Schedel, Flannery Cunningham, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh

Closing the Gender Gap (Mar. 8, 2019)

Balancing for Better – Higher Education Access for Women in Asia. For this special event, pianist Fay Lee performs HbeaRt for Piano and Electronics, Yale-NUS Performance Hall, Singapore.

Ensemble Connect at Carnegie Hall (Mar. 4, 2019)

The rising talents of Ensemble Connect venture off the stage and into the intimate setting of the Weill Music Room for a rare concert in the round. Drawing inspiration from Carnegie Hall’s citywide festival Migrations: The Making of America, the hourlong performance features works by immigrant composers, including Niloufar Nourbakhsh’s poignant Syria, a Fractal of WE and Tania León’s vibrant Indígena.

Dr. Corrine Byrne Solo Recital (Feb. 26, 2019)

Dr. Byrne performs an Aria from chamber opera “We the Innumerable”, Susquehanna University

Florida State University (Jan. 31 – Feb. 2)

Pianist Yingying Wang performs F I X E D HbeaRt as part of FNM2019

Brooklyn Opera Works (Dec. 21, 2018)

Directed by Lina Tetriani, BOW presents a contemporary Art Song Recital, Brooklyn Music School, NYC

Kaleidoscope Piano Series – ESCAPE (Dec. 1, 2018)

F I X E D HbeaRt by Nourbakhsh alongside piano works of Prokofiev, Scarlatti, Antonin Benda, and Chopin, performed by Inesa Gegprofti and Maria Sumareva

Steinway Piano Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida – 5:00 pm

Guest Artist/Faculty Recital featuring Corrine Byrne (Nov. 13, 2018)

Dr. Byrne performs an Aria from chamber opera “We the Innumerable” Randolph College, Virginia

Electroacoustic Barn Dance (Nov. 8-10 2018)

Afterhours Concert Presentation of M و E ر T ت R م O alongside choreographer Marie Zvosec The Department of Music at Jacksonville University, Florida

Auxiliary Transmissions (Oct. 19 2018)

Concert Presentation of M و E ر T ت R م O alongside choreographer Marie Zvosec Black Box Theater, Stony Brook Staller Center for the arts. 7:30 pm

Interactive Arts Performance Series (Oct. 15 2018)

SynthBeats performs After Apple Box composed by Dr. Margaret Schedel, Loewe Theatre 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012 8:00 pm

Strange Beautiful Music (Sep. 14, 2018)

Akropolis presents “Firing Squad” at New Music Detroit’s 11th annual contemporary music marathon! Strange Beautiful Music is a marathon concert that runs the gamut of experimental music. Detroit, Michigan.

Artistic Freedom Initiative Festival (Sep. 8 2018)

Opening for Al-Saadi and ElSaffar, the Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA) has composed a series of contemporary classical pieces inspired by Revolutions & Movements. Dupont Underground – Washington, DC

Terra Sounds School of Music and Arts (Sep. 8 2018)

Pianist Alisa Kolot performs F I X E D HbeaRt for piano and live electronics, 6:00 pm 924 Waukegan Rd, Glenview, IL

Narloch Piano Studio (Sep. 7 2018)

Pianist Alisa Kolot performs F I X E D HbeaRt for piano and live electronics, 7:30 pm Chicago, IL

Thirty Ears Festival (Aug. 11 2018)

First Winner of EDR Foundation Composition Competition for F I X E D HbeaRt written for Piano and Live Electronics, Chicago, IL

I-Park Foundation Residency 2018 (July 24 – Aug 6)

New Piece for Akropolis Reed Quintet with performances in Connecticut and NYC, August 4th, 7 pm, I-Park Foundation TICKETS , August 6th, 7:30 pm, Roulette Intermedium NYC TICKETS

Scripted: Open Mic (Apr. 20, 2018)

8:00 pm, Mise En Place, Brooklyn, NYC

Women Composers Festival of Hartford (Apr. 7, 2018)

Kocham Trio Performs “White Helmets, as white as death” – Hartford, CT

IFCA Launch Concert (Apr. 1, 2018)

4:00 PM, National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY.

Synth Nights: Composers Inside Electronics (Mar. 30, 2018)

World Premiere of After | Apple Box composed by Margaret Anne Schedel

8:00 pm, The Kitchen, Manhattan NY

Refugee Orchestra Project (Mar. 4, 2018)

Refugee Orchestra Project under the direction of Lidiya Yankovskaya presents “An Aria for The Executive Order” in collaboration with Soprano Amal El’Shrafi and “White Helmets, as white as death” by the musicians of ROP.

4:00 PM, National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY.

String Quartet Smackdown IV (Feb. 10, 2018)

Invoke Quartet will perform String Quartet No.1

7:00 pm, Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Austin, Texas – For Tickets Click HERE

Piano Recital/Composer Portrait (Feb. 4, 2018)

3:00 pm Salon at Spectrum, Brooklyn, NYC

NJSO Winter Festival Accent (Jan. 19, 2018)

Host Naomi Lewin and a panel of experts discuss the political climate in Europe that drove so many of the Winter Festival’s composers to come to America.

6:45 pm Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University

Mus Lab international festival of electroacoustic music (Dec 15, 2017)

Mexico Premiere of the official video “Would the miracle ever come?”

7:00 pm “Centro Cultural España en México”, Mexico City, Mexico.

M و E ر T ت R م O (Dec. 9 and 10, 2017)

Music written for dance as part of ongoing collaboration with choreographer Marie Zvosec, 8:00 pm Bessie Schonberg Dance Theatre, Sarah Lawrence College, NY.

Scripted: Open Mic (Dec. 1, 2017)

“Would the Miracle Ever Come?” for Synth, Piano, fixed media, and video.

8:00 pm, Mise En Place, Brooklyn, NYC

”Our Art, Our Stories–The Voice of Refugee Artists” (Nov. 12, 2017)

Refugee Orchestra Project under the direction of Lidiya Yankovskaya presents “An Aria for The Executive Order” in collaboration with Soprano Amal El’Shrafi.

4:00 PM, National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY.

Aural Architectures: Esther Lamneck and Mara Helmuth (Oct. 25, 2017)

SynthBeats performs Mara Helmuth’s piece for Laptop Orchestra: From Australia, directed by Niloufar Nourbakhsh

8:00 pm Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook University

University of Tennessee Contemporary Music Festival (Oct. 19, 2017)

Kocham Trio presents “White Helmets, as white as death“

8:00 pm, Powell Hall of the Natalie Haslam Music Center

5 NIGHTS, 11 PIANISTS (Oct. 18, 2017)

Metropolis Ensemble Presents PIANO STORYTELLERS

Dislocated: Pianist Erika Dohi presents “HbeaRt” and a new commissioned work at 6:30 pm, 1 Rivington Street, 2nd Floor NYC

Intersections (Oct. 11, 2017)

“An Aria for The Executive Order” Soprano Sara Paar and pianist Mirna Lekic

Queensborough Community College at 12:30 PM, Queensborough Performing Arts Center, Queens, NYC

Brendan Jacklin’s Recital (Sep. 30, 2017)

Pianist Brendan Jacklin performs “HbeaRt” for Piano and Live Electronics at Western Kentucky University, 8:00 pm

Mise-En Place Bushwick Open Studios (Sep. 24, 2017)

Nilou performs “HbeaRt” for Piano and Live Electronics

678 Hart Street, Brooklyn, NY

WKCR – No–land Bands Live set & Interview (Sep. 17, 2017)

Tune in to Middle Eastern Influences for an exclusive interview and live set of “A Journey to Aleppo”

Peace Day Hawaii (Sep. 16, 2017)

Soprano Rachel Schutz performs “An Aria for The Executive Order” as part of Artists for Social Justice (Hawaii) organization’s performance.

6:00PM, Soka Gakki International Hawai’i Cultural Center, Honolulu HI

Symphony Number One (Aug. 23, 2017)

WP of “America I Got to Know” For Voices Series

August 23, 2017 | 7:00 PM
August 25-27 | Schedule TBA
Mount Vernon Place, West Park, Baltimore, MD

New Music For Strings (June 22 – July 1, 2017)

Kocham Trio presents “White Helmets, as white as death“

June 24, 6 pm All Souls Episcopal Church in Stony Brook, NY

July 1, 1:30 pm Steen Anderson Masterclass, Stony Brook University

Splice Institute (June 11-17, 2017)

World premiere of a “HbeaRt” for pianist Keith Kirchoff

Western Michigan University, Dalton Center

UWC Refugee Initiative Benefit Gala (June 15, 2017)

“Syira, a fractal of WE” 6:00 pm

The International House, Davis Hall & Hall of History, 500 Riverside Dr, NYC

the SPIEL UHR Series (June 4, 2017)

Group Motion Dance Company present Syria, a fractal of WE

Community Education Center Philadelphia, PA, 8:00 pm.

SongSlam – New ART Song Competition (Apr. 25, 2017)

“Serenade” by Soprano Lisa Flanagan

Here Theater, Manhattan, NY, 8:30 – 10:30 pm

Fractals (Apr. 23, 2017)

Group Motion Dance Company present Syria, a fractal of WE

Community Education Center Philadelphia, PA, 8:00 pm.

(Apr. 19, 2017)

Kocham Trio presents “White Helmets, as white as death“

Chapel, Wang Center, SBU, Long Island, 5:00 pm

ShanRong Sabrina Tuo’s violin recital (Apr. 17, 2017)

Kocham Trio presents “White Helmets, as white as death“

Staller Center for the Arts, SBU Long Island, 1:30 pm

Women Composers Festival of Hartford (Apr. 1, 2017)

Syria, a fractal of WE – Hartford, CT.

“An Aria for the Executive Order” – World Premiere

SBU’s New Music Concert (Mar. 6, 2017)

Kocham Trio presents the world premiere of “White Helmets: as white as death”

Staller Center for the Arts, SBU Long Island, 8:00 pm

Andrea Clearfield Salon Series (Jan. 29, 2017)

Syria, a fractal of WE – Private Event in Philadelphia, PA.

No-land Bands‘ launch concert (Jan. 15, 2017)

Pianist and Improviser

Spectrum NYC, NY 7:00 pm

Contemporary Chamber Players (Dec. 14, 2016)

Staller Center for the Arts, SBU , Long Island, NY.

Ni Bruit Ni Vitesse for Piano, Percussion, Electronics by Lukas Foss

SBU’s New Music Concert (Nov. 17, 2016)

Premiere of “e, ee, ree, and I was free”

Staller Center for the Arts, SBU Long Island, NY 8:00 pm

Manhattan Camerata Concert (Nov.6 2016)

Prayers for the abandoned by Gity Razaz , Piano Trio by Joseph Rubinstein *

353 West 56th street, NY (advanced notice required for attendance) 7:00 pm

Composers Reading with Roomful of Teeth (Oct. 27, 2016)

Reading of “e, ee, ree, and I was free”

Staller Center for the Arts, SBU

Ross and Friends (Sep. 30, 2016)

Staller Center for the Arts, SBU

Ni Bruit Ni Vitesse for Piano, Percussion, Electronics by Lukas Foss

Seal Bay Festival, American Chamber Music (14-22 July, 2016)

Composer Fellow

Maine, USA

Seal Bay Festival

Composer’s Voice Concert Series (April 21, 2016)

Featuring various composers from Stony Brook University, Nilou will be performing VIGNETTE for piano composed by Daria Semegen.

Firehouse Space, Brooklyn, NYC 7:30 pm

curated by Joey Bohigian

SBU’s New Music Concert (April 12, 2016)

Premiere of a collection of songs based on Pablo Neruda’s poetry

Soprano: Lisa Flanagan

Staller Center for the arts, Stony Brook University, 8 pm

Calidore String Quartet (April 1, 2016)

World Premiere of “Logic Run Wild”

Recital Hall, Stony Brook University, 5 pm

SBU’s New Music Concert (12 NOV, 2015)

Premiere of “Syria, A Fractal of WE” for Piano, Violin, and Bassoon

Staller Center for the arts, Stony Brook University, 8 pm

FURY (12 NOV, 2015)

“TO THE LIGHTHOUSE”

Fury is the music of contemporary women composers who will not be made silent. Their music will haunt you, entrance you, mystify you, and thrill you. It’s not about being pretty. It’s about being heard. featuring the music of Lesley Flanigan, Jessica Meyer, Jenny Beck, Lauren Buchter, Niloufar Nourbhaksh, Pamela Stein Lynde, Molly Thompson and more.

The National Opera Center 7:30

Banbury new music festival (Aug, 2015)

Featuring a variety of musicians and artists performing new and exciting music

Banbury, Oxford, UK

http://www.k84.org/

Piano and Composition Recital (May 8th, 2015)

Nilou will be performing works by Missy Mazzoli, Caroline Shaw, Laura Kaminsky, … as well as present her own chamber music pieces.

Spectrum, NYC

Schumann Concerto (Feb, 2015)

Brooklyn Music School

More information to be announced

The New Mandolin Project (October 28th, 2014)

New Mandolin piece to be premiered by Joel Michael-Schwartz

Merrick Lecture Hall, Goucher College

www.facebook.com/thenewmandolin

Mehregan Festival of Culture (October 11th, 2014)

Nilou will be accompanying the violinist, Navid Kandelousi, on the piano as well as premiering her solo piano etude.

Lincoln Center Public Library

http://www.iasnewyork.org/2014-mehregan.php

International Strange Music Day (August 24th, 2014)

Performance of Prelude of Preludes by Niloufar Nourbakhsh

Spectrum, 121 Ludlow St., NYC

http://patrickgrant.com/ISMD2014.html

Rhymes with Opera Workshop (Aug 16, 2014)

Premiere of a new piece at New York’s National Opera Center

16th of August, 2014

http://www.rhymeswithopera.org/

Goucher College Orchestra (April, 2014)

Piano Soloist: Schumann Concerto in A minor

Premiere of “Lambda of Life’s Frequency” for Orchestra

April 23rd, 2014, 8:00 pm

Goucher College, Kraushaar Auditoruim

Solo Piano Recital (Feb 20, 2014)

Performing works of Scarlatti, Beethoven, Chopin, Prokofiev, and Nourbakhsh

Thursday, February 20, 2014, 8:00 pm

Goucher College, Merrick Lecture Hall

Chamber Music Seminar Concert (Dec 2, 2013)

Prokofiev Violin Sonata in D major with violinist Heather Haughn

Andante
Allegro con brio – Poco meno mosso – Tempo I – Poco meno mosso – Allegro con brio

Andre Caplet Trio: vient! une flûte invisible soupire

Premiere of “Another Birth” by Goucher College’s Chamber Singers

“Another Birth” is based on a poem by Forough Farrokhzad for Piano, Soprano, Alto, and Baritone

Monday, December 2, 2013, 8:00 pm

Goucher College, Merrick Lecture Hall

Lecture Presentation and Master Classes by Pianist Wayman Chin, Dean of Longy School of Music (Nov 24-25, 2013)

Beethoven Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor op.111

Maestoso – Allegro con brio ed appassionato

Prokofiev Violin Sonata in D major with violinist Heather Haughn

Andante
Allegro con brio – Poco meno mosso – Tempo I – Poco meno mosso – Allegro con brio

Sunday, November 24, 2013, 7:30 p.m., master class I

Monday, November 25, 2013, 7:00 p.m., lecture presentation and master classII

Goucher College, Merrick Lecture Hall

Ensemble For These Times (Apr. 5, 2025)

International Women’s Day Celebration at Duke University (Mar. 8, 2024)

Amnesty International Benefit Concert (Dec 10th, 2023)

Steinway’s Educational Partners Program (Nov. 14, 2023)

Live at the Gallery – Françoise Vanhecke (Oct. 7, 2023)

Concert 2: Defiance

Divergent Studio, Longy Conservatory (Jun. 15-21, 2023)

Ojai Festival: THE WILLOWS ARE NEW (Jun. 10, 2023)

Zenith Chamber Music Festival (Jun. 7, 2023)

Primavera Project: Cyclical Rabbits (May 6, 2023)

Primavera Project: Cyclical Rabbits (Apr. 21, 2023)

Cuatro Puntos Ensemble: Sounds of Persia (Apr. 13,14, 16)

Marfa, TX – PRIMAVERA: Figures and Shadows (Apr. 14, 2023)

Celebrate Women (Apr. 11, 2023)

Ensemble Decipher / Sideband / Warp Duo (Mar. 31, 2023)

Operatic Feminism, Columbia University (Mar. 25, 2023)

Millennium Chamber Players (Mar. 24, 2023)

John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium (Mar. 23, 2023)

Metropolitan Piano Series (Mar.18, 2023)

Primavera Project: Cyclical Rabbits (Mar. 18, 2023)

University of Tennessee Knoxville Contemporary Music Festival (Mar. 3, 2023)

College of the Holy Cross Orchestra (Mar. 1, 2023)

College of the Holy Cross Orchestra (Feb. 22, 2023)

When Cultures Clash: Destruction and Synthesis (Feb.16, 2023)

Kimia Hesabi Residency at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Jan 31, 2023)

Mosaic: Music by Women and Non-binary Composers (Jan. 29, 2023)

Composition in Asia, symposium and festival (Jan. 28-29, 2023)

The Carbondale Salon: Optimism & Activism (Jan. 28, 2023)

Michigan State University (Jan 26-27, 2023)

Oistrakh Symphony of ChicagoPresents Avant Garden (Jan. 22, 2023) – Postponed

Ancient eve is once again offering apple’s, ultraschall berlin (Jan. 21, 2023)

Dots+Loops Nonstop 2022 (Dec. 18, 2022)

Tempo Rubato (Dec. 16, 2022)

New Music Detroit: Sand & Stone (Dec. 9, 2022)

Tactus Ensemble, Manhattan School of Music (Dec. 6, 2022)

Splinter Reeds at Boston Conservatory’s Houston Hall (Dec. 2, 2022)

DMA RECITAL: ALEXANDRA SMITHER, Soprano (Nov. 28, 2022)

#be_our_voice (Nov. 28, 2022)

IN FOCUS IRAN, HfMT, Forum (Nov. 27, 2022)

Andrea Clearfield November Zalon (Nov. 20, 2022)

Musicians from the NY Philharmonic at 92NY (Nov. 20, 2022)

Casual Classics Concert Series (Nov. 7, 2022)

University of Northern Iowa (Oct. 27, 2022)

Grand Valley State University (Oct. 27, 2022)

University of Texas – Austin, New Music Ensemble (Oct. 24, 2022)

Chamber Music at Bethany (Oct. 23, 2022)

Semi-Staged workshop for “We the innumerable” (Oct. 21, 2022)

Cheswatyr Premiere with International Contemporary Ensemble (Oct. 15, 2022)

Splinter Reeds at the University of the pacific (Sep. 16, 2022)

Bang on a can summer festival (July. 18, 2022)

The Center for New Music Presents: Rose Hegele & Sarah Cahill (July 16, 2022)

NYCEMF with Ensemble Decipher (June 26, 2022)

New Work for Guitar and Violin (June 26th, 2022)

New Work for Guitar and Violin (June 25th, 2022)

BMP Next Generation Finals (June 23 and 24, 2022)

Snow Pond Music Festival (June 20, 2022)

International Low Flutes Festival (June 17th, 2022)

Nief-Norf Summer Festival 2022 (June 9, 2022)

Matt Haimovitz, cello WDR Funkhaus Cologne (June. 1, 2022)

D-bü – Wettbewerb (May 27, 2022)

Composing New Perspectives – Loadbang Ensemble (May 17, 2022)

The Music She Writes (May 13th, 2022)

Manchester New Music Festival (May 7, 2022)

Emruz Festival (May 1-7, 2022)

University of Tennessee Southern (April 28th, 2022)

Composing New Perspectives – Loadbang Ensemble (April 17, 2022)

Sounds Modern Presents REPLAY (April 16, 2022)

Composing New Perspectives – Loadbang Ensemble (April 12, 2022)

Elizabeth Remy Johnson Harp Recital (Mar. 14, 2022)

Shriver Hall Concert Series (Mar. 6, 2022)

Metropolitan Piano Stories (Feb. 26, 2022)

Florida State University, Festival of New Music (Feb 5, 2022)

ANIM Composition Residency (Jan 29, 2022)

Towards Sound Project (Dec 17 – Jan 9, 2022)

Hypercube Ensemble (Dec. 15, 2021)

FACE The Music and Imani Winds (Dec. 7, 2021)

Jeremy Huw Williams and Paula Fan in Concert (Nov. 10, 2021)

Ensemble Decipher NY State Tour (Nov. 8 – 20, 2021)

Davies Concert Series (Nov. 7, 2021)

Oistrakh Symphony of Chicago
Presents Avant Garden (Jan. 22, 2023) – Postponed