Sahba Aminikia is an Iranian-American composer born in Tehran in 1981.
Trained in music by Persian pianists as Safa Shahidi and Gagik Babayan, in Russia at the St. Petersburg Stat Conservatory by Boris Ivanov Tishchenko, and in England by Sir Michael Tippett, he is now living in California.
"Life in Tehran taught me to appreciate
hardship and beauty at the same time, and this is something that, due to
heavy media propaganda, is mainly obscured in Western minds. I was
brought up with the poetry of Hafiz, Rumi, and Saadi, and with Persian
classical music, but was also largely exposed to the music of Pink
Floyd, Beatles, Queen, and various jazz musicians. This conflict between
the morals of a theocracy and Western cultural imports also exists in
my mind, and I see it as a life process towards finding a common ground
for communication and dialogue in my music." Sahba Aminikia
He wrote numerous orchestral, vocal and solo pieces performed all around the world, with famous orchestras and musicians.
He has been commissioned by theater companies, contemporary classical ensembles, film scores, Persian traditional music groups as well as jazz bands including Kronos Quartet, Symphony Parnassus, Mobius Trio, San Francisco Conservatory of New Music Ensemble and many others.
interview here
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Recently in 2017 he was invited as artist-in-residence at Kronos Festival.
"Tar o pood" with the Kronos Quartet
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