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Described as “stark” by WNPR, and “darkly lyrical” by the New York Times, a winner of 2022 Beth Morrison Projects Next Generation, National Sawdust’s 2nd Hildegard competition, and a recipient of 2019 Female Discovery Grant from Opera America, Iranian-American composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh’s music has been commissioned and performed by Nashville Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic musicians, Library of Congress, I-Park Foundation, National Sawdust, International Contemporary Ensemble, Shriver Hall Series, Center for Contemporary Opera, Women Composers Festival of Hartford, PUBLIQuartet, Forward Music Project, Calidore String Quartet, Cassatt String Quartet, Akropolis Reed Quintet, and Ensemble Connect at numerous festivals and venues including Carnegie Hall, Washington Kennedy Center, Mostly Mozart Festival, Ojai Festival, Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music, and many more. A founding member and co-director of Iranian Female Composers Association, Nilou is a strong advocate of music education. In 2014, she worked as the site coordinator of Brooklyn Middle School Jazz Academy sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center. She currently teaches composition at Longy School of Music of Bard College. Nilou also regularly performs with her ensemble, Decipher.
Nilou is a music graduate and a Global Citizen Scholarship recipient of Goucher College as well as a Mahoney and Caplan Scholar from University of Oxford. Among her teachers are Lisa Weiss, Kendall Kennison, Laura Kaminsky, Daniel Weymouth, Matthew Barnson, Margaret Schedel and Daria Semegen. She received a Ph.D. in music composition from Stony Brook University under the supervision of Sheila Silver.
Niloufar Nourbakhsh – Works
| Catalog # | Piece Title | Instrumentation, Duration |
|---|---|---|
| OM1009 | Lalaei (2024) | Vocals and Electronics, 2′ |
| OM1008 | Seeking You (2023) | Piano and Soprano, 9′ |
| OM1007 | Dawn (2023) | Piano and Vocals, 10′ |
| OM1006 | En Cherchant (2023) | String Orchestra, 5′ |
| OM1005 | F I X E D HbeaRt (2017) | Piano, Live Electronics, 11′ |
| OM1004 | White helmets, as white as death (2017) | Flute, Violin, Viola, 8′ |
| OM1003 | Cello Sonata No. 1 (2012) | Cello, Piano, 6′ |
| OM1002.2 | Veiled (2019) | Viola, Live Electronics, 8′ |
| OM1002 | Veiled (2019) | Cello, Live Electronics, 8′ |
| OM1001 | Cyclical Rabbits (2021) | Solo cello, 6′ |
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