Danae Venson
A Manifestation
« une manifestation » parle des moments de la vie où nous sommes vulnérables et exposés. dans ces moments, nous pouvons choisir d’accepter notre vulnérabilité positivement ou de nous effondrer sous le poids de nos insécurités. cette pièce est inspirée du premier processus—acceptant les défis et aller de l’avant.
Roxani Chatzidimitriou
Anatoli (Ανατολή)
est un mot grec qui signifie « lever du soleil ». Le lever du soleil peut symboliser l’espoir, la renaissance, la croissance, une période de renouveau ou un retour à la vie après une période de ténèbres ou d’épreuves. L’émergence du soleil depuis l’obscurité peut évoquer des sentiments d’espoir et d’optimisme, suggérant qu’après les difficultés, des jours meilleurs sont possibles.
Joane Na
Starlight Movements
Il existe une vieille croyance selon laquelle, lorsqu’une personne meurt, son âme devient une étoile, veillant sur les vivants de loin. J’imagine les étoiles non seulement comme des êtres chers disparus, mais aussi comme les échos des mouvements, des voix et des vies du passé — qui continuent de façonner notre monde, silencieusement et invisiblement, d’une manière que nous ne remarquons souvent que bien plus tard.
Reza Vali
Salmak
Khosrow Soltani
Tausend und ein Traum
Cette pièce est basée sur une mélodie médicinale, dans laquelle on retrouve de nombreuses similitudes avec la musique orientale d’aujourd’hui.
JJ Bushman
Danser Sue L’eau
Le concept d'une mer illimitée avant la création de la terre est une idée commune à toutes les cultures et a été ma principale inspiration de cette pièce. Ce qui suit présente des sections solo qui rendent la pièce moulable à l'image de l'artiste, et présente un état "précurseur" utilisant de nombreuses techniques étendues pour imiter ce que l'on croyait être avant la création de la Terre. Nous passons ensuite à une danse de la vie que l'eau a donnée à la terre.
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Miguel del Águila
Tennessee (extrait) / Sambeando
Deux pièces courtes, écrites à 25 ans d’écart, jouées comme une seule.
Tennessee a été composée lors d’un été passé près de la maison de Tennessee Williams. C’est une valse à l’ancienne, fragile et triste, qui incarne Blanche Dubois, l’héroïne brisée de Un tramway nommé Désir, sombrant peu à peu dans la folie.
Sambeando, écrite 25 ans plus tard, l’imagine se réveillant au Brésil, dansant une samba joyeuse. Une pièce inspirée des styles Samba et Bossa
Shahab Paranj
Noor
Noor est un duo pour violoncelle et ney persan. La pièce est construite sur le dastgah Nava, un mode de la musique classique persane. Le violoncelle n’accompagne pas seulement le ney de manière mélodique, mais agit aussi comme un instrument de percussion.
Noor est dédié à Khosrow Soltani, l’un des véritables trésors de la musique classique iranienne.
Darren Xu
Like Earth
Like Earth est un quintette qui cherche à capturer l’élément universel qu’est la Terre, en représentant sa chaleur, sa stabilité et sa bienveillance.
4. Kaveh Mirhosseini
Revelation
La pièce “Revelation” est une composition très personnelle pour violon et violoncelle, inspirée de la musique mystique du peuple Guran et des rituels Ahl-Haqq à Kerend-e Gharb, une ville d’Iran près de la frontière irakienne. Après un voyage solitaire de 3 600 km, le compositeur a rencontré le maître local Ali Kamali et, guidé par Mohammad-Reza Darvishi, s’est plongé dans la musique sacrée et l’atmosphère spirituelle de la région. L’œuvre reflète un cheminement intérieur, une quête de soi et une transformation émotionnelle profonde.
5. Improvisation
Professors
Reza Vali
was born in Ghazvin, Iran, in 1952. He began his music studies at the Conservatory of Music in Tehran. In 1972 he went to Austria and studied music education and composition at the Academy of Music in Vienna. After graduating from the Academy of Music, he moved to the United States and continued his studies at the University of Pittsburgh, receiving his Ph.D. in music theory and composition in 1985. Mr. Vali has been a faculty member of the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University since 1988. He has received numerous honors and commissions, including the honor prize of the Austrian Ministry of Arts and Sciences, two Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships, commissions from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Kronos Quartet, the Carpe Diem String Quartet, the Seattle Chamber Players and the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, as well as grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Pittsburgh Foundation, and the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Cultural
Trust as the Outstanding Emerging Artist for which he received the Creative Achievement Award. Vali's orchestral compositions have been performed in the United States by the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Baltimore Symphony, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra 2001. His chamber works have received performances by Cuarteto Latinoamericano, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Carpe Diem String Quartet, Kronos Quartet, the Seattle Chamber Players, and the Da
Capo Chamber Players. His music has been performed in Europe, China, Chile, Mexico, Hong Kong, and Australia and is recorded on the Deutsche Grammophon, Naxos, New Albion, MMC, Ambassador, Albany, and ABC Classics labels.
Miguel del Aguila
Three-time Grammy nominated American composer Miguel del Aguila creates distinctive, innovative modern classical music highly influenced by his Latin American roots. A leading voice in 20th and 21st-Century music, he is a vital force in contemporary concert music, with 140 compositions that bring vibrant new diversity into the modern chamber and orchestral music repertoire. His rhythm-driven, dramatic works blend tradition and modernity with nostalgic nods to his South American heritage.
His music, recorded in over sixty CD albums, enjoys hundreds of live performances yearly, earning him acclaim like “brilliant and witty” (NY Times), “sonically dazzling” (LA Times), and “disarmingly genial” (SF Sentinel). Thousands of soloists and ensembles performed his music worldwide. The list includes over 100 orchestras such as Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester, Royal Concertgebouw, Sphinx Virtuosi, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra of the Americas; the Kiev, Odessa, Heidelberg, Royal Liverpool, Ciudad de México, Buffalo, Chicago, and Louisiana Philharmonics; and the BBC Welsh, Toronto, Nashville, Seattle, Albany, Chicago, San Antonio, Long Beach, Fort Worth, Santa Barbara, Reykjavík, Caracas, Puerto Rico, and São Paulo Symphonies. Conductors include Leonard Slatkin, JoAnn Falletta, Giancarlo Guerrero, Marin Alsop, and Carlos Miguel Prieto. His works feature at festivals like Aspen and Ravinia. He has held residencies at institutions including Dartmouth College and The Juilliard School and was composer in residence with Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, ISU Contemporary Music Festival, Ensemble Storstrøm Denmark, Orchestra of the Americas, New Mexico Symphony, Fresh Ink, CTSummerfest, Talis, and Chautauqua Festivals.
His recordings have topped the Billboard Classical Charts: 2024 album Windsync Plays Miguel del Aguila, reached #1. His recording of Conga-Line in Hell (Joel Sachs/Camerata de las Americas) is nearing half a million streams worldwide. His CD Salon Buenos Aires earned him two Grammy nominations. In 2015 his work Concierto en Tango, won him a third Grammy nomination. He has been honored with the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, New Music USA’s Music Alive and Magnum Opus Awards, Lancaster Symphony Composer of the Year, and The Copland Foundation awards.
He graduated from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and continued studies at Vienna’s Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst. Early premieres in Musikverein and Konzerthaus were followed by his 1989 Carnegie Recital Hall debut and by Lukas Foss/Brooklyn Philharmonic concerts. – www.migueldelaguila.com
Shahab Paranj
Winner of the 2024 Hoefer Prize, Composer, Conductor, Instrumentalist, and Educator Shahab Paranj, an Iranian-born composer, holds degrees in music composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is considered one of the pioneers among his generation of Iranian composers whose composition style integrates Persian and Western composition techniques. Known as a tombak virtuoso, he has performed, recorded, and collaborated with some of the most celebrated artists worldwide. Praised by the San Francisco Examiner as “extraordinary” and acclaimed by composer John Adams for his “unique voice,” Paranj’s compositions distinctly diverge from Eurocentric conventions, drawing inspiration primarily from the vibrant traditions of Persian music. Recent commissions include works for ensembles such as the Russian String Orchestra, Intersection Contemporary Music Ensemble, Long Beach Opera, Jâca Duo, Aleron Trio, San Francisco New Music Ensemble, One Great City Duo, MSM Symphony Orchestra, and international Low Brass Trio. Additionally, he has composed an original score for the movie “Dressage,” which won the 2018 feature film (generation category) at the Berlin Film Festival. As a scholar, his main research focus lies in the Iranian Avazi Style, and he has presented on this topic in various seminars, including the SEM, AMS, and SMT 2022 joint annual meeting. He has received formal recognition from the Mehr Humanitarian Society (2010) and the City and County of San Francisco (2011). Paranj is a founder and music director of The Iranshahr Orchestra and the artistic director of “du vert à l’infini,” a contemporary music festival in the Franche-Comte region of France. He currently serves as a faculty member at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.