Niloufar Shiri & Bahar Badieitabar+ Parsa Ferdowsi

Schedule

Tue Oct 07 2025 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Calvary Center for Culture and Community | Philadelphia, PA

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Niloufar Shiri & Bahar Badieitabar:
Kamancheh player and composer Niloufar Shiri began her musical journey at the Tehran Music Conservatory in Iran. She later immigrated to the USA and pursued her studies in composition at the University of California, San Diego, and Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT) at the University of California, Irvine.
Niloufar’s musical world lies at the intersection of classical Iranian music, contemporary music, and improvisation. Her focus revolves around exploring the concept of displacement in relation to familiar and distant environments. Her music closely examines textural and timbral spaces, drawing inspiration from staggered pitch relations found in the Radif, as well as bird sounds, noise, and feedback. Her unique and radical approach to kamancheh performance significantly expands the sonic capabilities of the instrument and places her at the forefront of its practice.
Bahar Badieitabar is an Iranian Oud player and composer, recently graduated on a full scholarship with a double major in composition and performance from Berklee College of Music. At the age of 12, Bahar began her musical training at the Tehran Music School, where she earned her high school diploma in music. She studied under notable oud players, including Siavash Roshan, Negar Bouban, and Yurdal Tukcan. Bahar won first place at the Iranian Youth National Music Festival for two consecutive years at ages 16 and 17. She has performed as both a performer and composer at numerous venues, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, MCG Jazz, and Groton Hill Music Center, as well as at music festivals in Iran and the United States, collaborating with musicians of diverse backgrounds.
In 2017, Bahar began her undergraduate studies in Oud Performance at the University of Tehran before moving to the United States to study at Berklee. She has studied and worked with acclaimed musicians such as Marti Epstein, Kris Davis, and Alain Mallet, and has been a part of Berklee's Institute of Jazz Gender and Justice since 2022.
Bahar's background contributes to her authentic composition approach, rooted in Iranian classical music, contemporary concert music, and jazz. Currently, she is a member of Danilo Perez's Global Jazz Messengers. She has shared the stage with Grammy-winning, world-renowned musicians, including John Patitucci, Brian Blade, Danilo Perez and Bruno Raberg.
Parsa Ferdowsi:
Parsa Ferdowsi is a musician and improviser, born and raised in Karaj, Iran. He is a member of Shiraz Ensemble (with Sina Homaee, Noushin Nowroozi, and Sepehr Pirasteh), and Taarof Duo (with Matt Wellins.) He has regularly worked with artists such as Nat Baldwin, Shawn O’Sullivan, Michael Pestel, and Negar Soleymanifar. His works have been performed by ensembles such as Pamplemousse Ensemble, String Noise Duo, and Wesleyan's Toneburst Laptop and Electronic Arts Ensemble. He also collaborated on some projects with Peter Zummo, David Vantieghem, Alex Waterman (as a part of the Arthur Russell’s City Park project led by Nick Hallet), David Behrman, Nicolas Collins, and Lea Bertucci.
He works with sound, space, image, words, expectations, and frames. His works include compositions, photographs, videos, improvisations, performance, poetry, and acting. His compositions usually benefit from use of verbal notations, theatrics, collaborative environments, site-specificity, and collective improvisation. As an improviser, he implements some of his compositional techniques and issues around decision-making alongside the language and affordances of Iranian Dastāghi music.
He is currently studying Music Technology in the graduate program at Temple University. He holds an MA in Experimental Music/Performance from Wesleyan University where he worked with Ron Kuivila, Paula Matthusen, and Neely Bruce, and a BA in Composition from the Tehran University of Art. He studied tombak with Mahmoud Balandeh, santur and Radif of dastgahi music with Behnam Mehrabi and Majid Kiani.
The entrance on the 48th Street side of building is wheelchair accessible via a street-level lift. Please contact us in advance for assistance.
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