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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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.)

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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

Past 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.
I haven’t updated this site in a long time . . . in progress.

More info, links and updates coming soon
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Fall Concerts & Master Class:

Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies

Part of the Contemporary Music Festival

Celebrating the Music of Peter Maxwell Davies (Guest of Festival)

Forbes Center for the Performing Arts (Concert Hall)

James Madison University

Harrisonburg, VA

18 Oct 2012, 8:00 PM

More info:  http://www.jmu.edu/music/cmf/

Master Class for voice students at JMU

Choir Room, Music Building

17 October, 2012

Time TBA

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This event is being rescheduled due to Hurricane Sandy.

Please check this website for updates:

www.fertile-crescent.org/performances.html

World premiere of suite of arias from the new opera, Territories

Music by Andreia Pinto Correia

Libretto by Palestinian American playwright Betty Shamieh

1 Nov 2012, 8:00 PM (Postponed)

Wolfenson Hall, Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton University, NJ

(On stage discussion will follow)

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Concert with the Barbad Chamber Ensemble

Folk Songs from Iran (Farsi & Kurdish), Turkey, Armenia, and Hungary

(Bartók & Kodály collections) and

Music by Haydn, Turina, Schimi and Heydarbeygi (world premiere),

10 Nov 2012, 7:30 PM

The Steinway Reformed Church in Astoria (Queens, NY)

21-65 41st St, Astoria
$15 ($10 for seniors and students)
(take the N to Ditmars, turn right on Ditmars and walk to 41st Street)

Tickets can purchased at the door the night of the concert.
(718) 530-5304

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