UW Guest Composer Concert: Seattle-Isfahan Project
$20 ($15 UW employee, $10 student/ages 65+)
- Naeim Rahmani, guitars
- Jeffrey Bowen, guitars
- Laure Struber, piano
- Neil Welch, saxophone
- Luke Fitzpatrick, violin
- Abbey Blackwell, double bass
- Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Naeim Rahmani, classical guitarist and Artistic Director of the Seattle-Isfahan Project, has commissioned new works by Iranian women composers living outside of Iran and three Seattle composers (Jeff Bowen, Huck Hodge, Yigit Kolat) to draw attention to the water crisis that is happening now in Iran, particularly the drought that is affecting the Zayandeh-Roud, the river that gave birth to the city of Isfahan.
This project is intended to both pay homage to the river and to raise people's awareness about the drought and its impacts.
About Naeim Rahmani, guitars
About Jeffrey Bowen, guitars
About Neil Welch, saxophone
About Luke Fitzpatrick, violin
About Abbey Blackwell, double bass
About Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Carrie Henneman Shaw joined the Voice Program at the University of Washington as an artist in residence in Autumn 2020. As a singer, Carrie engages in a wide variety of musical projects, but she focuses on early and contemporary music.
A sample of her work includes an upcoming solo recording on Naxos Records of early 18th-century French song; creating music for a live-music-for-dance project with James Sewell Ballet; and collaborating on a recording with the band Deerhoof. Carrie is a two-time winner of a McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians, and she is a member of two groups that focus on music by living composers, Ensemble Dal Niente, a mixed chamber collective, and Quince Ensemble, a treble voice quartet.
She appears in numerous recordings ranging from medieval sacred music to a video-game soundtrack, and before coming to the UW, she has been maintaining a full university studio for the six years and participating in educational residencies for composers and performers around the country, including UC-Berkeley, Stanford, New York University, the University of Chicago, and beyond.
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