Episode 030 - Bahar Royaee - Electronic Music from Iran

Episode • Apr 12, 2021 • 1h 10m

We are in New York City today and we have the wonderful opportunity to talk with Bahar Royaee. Originally born and raised in Iran, she moved to the United States to pursue a music education. She received her Master’s of Music in composition from the Boston Conservatory, where she studied with Felipe Lara and Marti Epstein. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in composition at The Graduate School at CUNY where she studies with Jason Eckardt and Suzanne Farrin. She was the runner-up in the National Sawdust’s 2018-19 Hildegard Competition and has won the Roger Sessions Memorial Compositions Award, Walter W. Harp Music and Society Award, John Bavicchi Memorial Prize, and the Korourian Electroacoustic Award. As you heard in Kitchen, her music combines timbral and sound-based atmospheric structures that is interspersed with lyrical influences derived from her Iranian background. Her works have been performed worldwide including Germany, Canada, Greece, the US, and Italy. She is also the founder of the CanvaSounds group. We will talk to her about her musical life, what the CanvaSounds ensemble is, and what inspires her about the world around us.

Guest:

Bahar Royaee

Music Included in this Episode:

Kitchen by Bahar Royaee © Bahar Royaee 2020

Daf composed and performed by Chris Rippey © Chris Rippey 2016

Tombstone by Bahar Royaee © Bahar Royaee 2018

Links:

https://bahar-royaee.squarespace.com/

https://soundcloud.com/bahar-royaee

Hosts:

William F. Montgomery - www.williammontgomerycomposer.com

Hillary Lester - www.thehealthymusiciansite.com