Anahita Abbasi
Anahita Abbasi[edit]
Anahita Abbasi - آناهیتا عباسی- ( born 1985 in Shiraz, Iran) is a California based Composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music. She is a founding member of Schallfeld Ensemble[1]an association for contemporary music and art based in Graz, Austria, co-founder and board member of the Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA), as well as a member of ACIMC in France, and die andere Saite in the Graz, Austria.
Compositional Style[edit]
Abbasi's works often incorporate playful multilayered gestures[2] and timbral explorations[3], which unfold throughout time, from words to notes to melodies to noises.[4] The result is indeed an unpredictable succession of instrumental textures, coming now in single notes and now in great waves of sound[5]. As it is also vivid from the titles of her works such as Dialogues, Situations, Distorted Attitudes, and etc; she investigates and gesticulate thoughts and feelings; At the same time it is manifestation/ observation of a scene or multiple scenes, which occur simultaneously; the content of which, however, never becomes more concrete, but remains delicate at the border. She has the tendency to take us with her music on a mystical, puzzling journey and leave us within our thoughts, to find out the “ending” ourselves.”…[6]( Ernst. M. Binder)
Education[edit]
Abbasi started her musical education with the Orff approach at the age of 8, and continued studying music theory and Harmony with Omid Hassani in Shiraz, Iran. At the age of 10, she started to play piano and as a pianist, she received the first prize in piano competitions for several years in her hometown Shiraz, Fars.
In 2005, she moved to Austria to study at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz (Austria); where she studied music theory with Clemens Gadenstätter and Christian Utz and composition with Beat Furrer and Pierluigi Billone. In 2014, she Moved to United States and is currently pursuing her PhD with Rand Steiger at University of California, San Diego. Abbasi has worked closely with Georges Aperghis, Franck Bedrossian and Philippe Leroux.
Career[edit]
As a composer, Abbasi's music has been performed all around the world in various festivals such as: Darmstadt Ferienkurse[7], Archipel festival, Ircam (Manifeste Academy[8]), Klangspuren Festival, Matrix (Experimental studio des SWR), Impuls festival, Time of music, BIFEM, Tage neuer Musik, Atlas festival[9], Tongyeong International Music Festival, Grachten Festival and Daegu Contemporary Music Festival among others.
A recipient of a 2015 Morton Gold ASCAP young composers award, Ms. Abbasi was also nominated in 2017 as the “women composers of our time[10]” alongside Kaija Saariaho and Isabel Mundry. In 2013, she received the work-scholarship from Experimentalstudio des SWR in Freiburg.
As a founding member of Schallfeld Ensemble and IFCA, she has been an advocate of contemporary music, by supporting, promoting and organizing concerts for young composers all around the world.
Selected works[11][edit]
Abbasi’s output includes orchestral, chamber, vocal, and solo works with / without electronics.
- Intertwined Distances (solo Harpsichord & Electronics - 2018)[12] ~ 15 min
- Distorted Attitudes I [1](Fl, Cl, Pn, Vl, Vc, Db) ~ 2 min
- Distorted Attitudes II / Labyrinth[13](Fl, Sax, Fg, Vl, Vc, Db) ~ 7 min
- Distorted Attitudes III / Scattered (Baritone, Perc.) ~ 12 min
- Distorted Attitudes IV / Facile synthesis (String Quartet) ~ 7 min
- Distorted Attitudes V / Coinciding Destinations/ for Klangforum Quartet (Vla, Sax, Acc, Db) ~ 12 min
- Situation I / Incidents (Ten sax, Acc, Pn, Vc, Perc. Db) ~ 12 min
- Situation II / Dialoge (Fl, Cl, Sax, Vl, Vc, Db, Pn, & Objects) ~ 9 min
- Situation III / Je, Tu, Nous(Percussion Trio) ~ 8 min
- Situation IV / Io e iO (solo violin)[14] ~ 13 min
- … within the shifting grounds … (symphony orchestra and ensemble)[15] [16]~ 14 min
- Faab IV / a femme fatale (Fl, Cl, Pn, Vl, Vla, Vc) ~ 9 min
- STIMULUS (solo Flute & Electronics) ~ 30 min
- Moving Surfaces III / Another birth (Pn, Sax, Perc.) ~ 15 min
- Enigma patterns ( Kl, Pn, Vl) ~ 7 min
- Seven Impressions [17](Voice, Perc.) ~ 11 min
- Sirventès (Vc, Perc.) ~ 10 min
- Togetherness (Vocal piece for 16 Voices) ~ 9 min
- Zavaya (Nay, Vl, Vla, Vc, Chang, Perc.) ~ 12 min
- SKETCH II (solo Kamancheh & Electronics) [18]~ 6 min
Notable Performers[edit]
Ensemble Modern 2019
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)[19] USA 2018
Klangforum Wien’s members 2017
San Francisco symphony youth orchestra 2018
Quatour Diotima 2015
Mivos Quartet 2016
Argonaut Quartet 2017
Schallfeld Ensemble 2013,14,15,16,17,18,19
Platypus Ensemble 2017
Mise/En Ensemble 2017
Neuverband Ensemble 2015
New York virtuoso singers 2017
dissonArt Ensemble 2013, 2014
Calithumpian consort 2015
Ume duo 2017
Tamgram Trio 2015
Omnibus Ensemble 2015,16,17
TAK ensemble 2018, 2019
Offspring Ensemble 2017
ECCE Ensemble 2015
Vertixe Sonora 2016-17
Manifeste ACADEMIE percussion ensemble 2016
Ensemble Reconsil Vienna 2016, 2017
IGNM (Graz, Austria) 2017
Mahan Esfahani 2017,18,19 (harpsichord)
Sergej Tchirkov 2015,16 (Accordion)
Steven Schick 2016,17 (Conductor)
List of awards and Notable performances[edit]
48th Dimitra Festival (Greece) - 2013/14 competition
ASCAP -morton gold composition award[20] (U.S.) 2015 competition
CEMEC - (California) 2016, 2017
Manifeste Academy - IRCAM - (Paris) 2016
Reconsil ensemble (Vienna) - 2017 competition
Mise-En festival (NYC) 2017 competition
Time of music festival 2015 (Finland)
Atlas Festival 2011 and 2012 (Amsterdam)
Matrix- Experimental studio SWR- (Freiburg-Germany) 2012, 2013
ECCE ensemble academy (Boston)
Cairo Contemporary music Festival ( featured as women composers of our time) 2017
ICM festival 2016 - San Diego
Ensemble Modern Tour (London, Germany)
Klangspuren festival 2017 (Austria)
Midtown Opéra festival, Memphis, Ann Arbor- 2018
Periferien Festival (Oslo, Norway) 2017
Turbulenzen Festival (Berlin, Germany) 2017
OPEN MUSIC series [21](Graz- Austria) 2017
Zentrum für Musikvermittlung (Vienna- Austria ) 2017
Daegu Contemporary Music Festival (Daegu, South Korea) 2017
Tehran Contemporary Music Festival -Iran -2017, 2018
Reed Family Concert Series [22](San Diego) 2017
Vertixe Sonora Festival (Vigo, Spain) 2016
Festival Carmelo Bernaola (Spain) 2015
Tongyeong International Music Festival (South Korea) 2012
Grachten Festival Amnesty House (Amsterdam)- 2012
Work scholarship - experimental studio des SWR (Freiburg -Germany) - 2013
External links[edit]
https://www.babelscores.com/composer?userid=6964&view=vendorprofile
https://soundcloud.com/anahita-abbasi
https://www.schallfeldensemble.com
https://www.facebook.com/MUSIFCA/
References[edit]
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- ↑ "48. Internationale Ferienkurse: Carte Blanche: Schallfeld • Centralstation Darmstadt • Konzerte, Lesungen, Partys und Kinderprogramm". www.centralstation-darmstadt.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ↑ "Composition Workshops | Manifeste 2016". manifeste2016.ircam.fr. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
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- ↑ "WOMEN COMPOSERS OF OUR TIME – EECMS EBDAA". eecms-ebdaa.eu. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
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- ↑ "Youth Orchestra premiere spreads out through Davies". SFGate. 2018-03-05. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
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- ↑ "March | 2018 | New York Music Daily | Page 4". newyorkmusicdaily.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ↑ "Anahita Abbasi on . . . within the shifting grounds . ." International Contemporary Ensemble. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ↑ "The ASCAP Foundation Names Recipients of 2015 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards". www.ascapfoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ↑ "open music JUNGE STÜCKE". MUWA - Museum der Wahrnehmung (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2018-09-18.
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