Haleh Abghari _____________________________________________________________________

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Breaking the Silence

Photo by H. Lee Hirsche

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B i t s    a n d    P i e c e s
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The performance of Eight Songs for a Mad King with the New York New Music Ensemble at Merkin Hall, NYC (May 2007) made MusicWeb International's list of Performances of 2007.
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Interview on Ear to Ear with David Garland on WNYC (New York’s Public Radio station).  You can listen to the interview and hear samples of old and recent performances at:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/eveningmusic/episodes/2007/10/13


Read the New York Times review of the Aperghis concert here.

(Concerts of the music of Georges Aperghis and master-classes at the IFCP Festival at Mannes, June 2008.)

Still searching for Bedanka Dankovic . . .

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Voice of the Soul

A video performance project in collaboration with artist Remo Spada.

Watch the video on YouTube

View photos of an installation of the video as part of an exhibit in Lecce, Italy on the theme of violence against women: 

http://f360.altervista.org/thevoice.html

Photos and video by Remo Spada

© Haleh Abghari

Recent Engagements include:

A recoding of music by Frank Brickle with Cygnus Ensemble.

Soloist in Four Settings by Melinda Wagner at the Monadnock Music Festival, July 2009.

An appearance at the San Francisco MOMA with animation artist Martha Colburn, November 2009.

Guest soloist with the New York New Music Ensemble in Mario Davidovsky’s  75th birthday concert, November 2009.

Residency at the Montalvo Arts Center in California, January 2010, Dec 2010, and May 2011.

A concert of music by Georges Aperghis with Bent Frequency in Atlanta, March 2010.

Artist-in-residence at the University of California at Davis, premiering a work written for her by Eric Moe, April 2010

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Thank you for visiting.
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Upcoming:

Concert with the Barbad Chamber Ensemble

Works by György Kurtág, Berio, Stravinsky, Debussy, and Mozart

29 April. 2011, 7.30 PM

The Steinway Reformed Church in Astoria (Queens, NY)

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"Final Fridays" Performance at Montalvo Arts Center

Saratoga, CA

Friday, 27 May 2011, 6 p.m.

Laurie San Martin and Haleh Abghari are joined by percussionist Chris Froh to present a work-in-progress inspired by Farid al-Din Attar's ancient story, The Conference of the Birds.

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