Vocal

Image is from Female Voice of Iran Festival 

“Dawn” (2024) Vocals + Piano + Electronics [10′] 

Commissioned by Sparks & Wiry Cries. Written for Mahya Hamedi and Ava Nazar.
Premiere: First performed January, 20, 2024 during the “Only Voice Remains” program at the National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY by vocalist Mahya Hamedi and pianist Ava Nazar.

Dawn Start time at 47:26
“Threshold of a cold season” (2023) Mezzo Soprano + Piano

Commissioned by Sasha Cooke for Shriver Hall Concert Series, Excerpt from “Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad” Translation by Sholeh Wolpé, Published by University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, used with Permission

Produced by Sparks and Wiry Cries, Recorded at the Blue Building
“Bag of Bones” (2023) Baritone, Tpt., Trom., Bcl., Electronics [10′]

Commissioned by Loadbang Ensemble for Longy’s Divergent Studio, Poem by Dunya Mikhail, translated by Elizabeth Winslow, from THE WAR WORKS HARD, New Directions Publishing Corp. 

“The window” (2020) Soprano + electronics (also available with piano) [2′]
Commissioned by Refugee Orchestra Project, FP: Zhanna Alkhazova
“Darkness of the womb” (2019) Song Cycle: Soprano + Piano + Vocoder [13′]
Commissioned by Chelsea Hollow, FP: Columbia University, NY
“An Aria for the Executive Order” (2017) Soprano + Piano [4′]
Commissioned by Women Composers Festival of Hartford, Featured on NPR

“e, ee, ree, and I was free” (2016) Vocal Octet [6′]
e, ee, ree, and I was free at Longy Divergent Studio 2023
“Thistle, Serenade” (2016) Soprano + Piano [5’30”]