Ashkan Behzadi

College 教师: 作文 Course 教师: Advanced Orchestration; Contemporary Performance Program: Survey of Contemporary Music

Ashkan Behzadi, a 2021-2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Music 作文, is an Iranian-Canadian composer. He earned his DMA in composition at Columbia University where he studied with Fred Lerdahl, George Lewis, 和 Georg Friedrich Haas. Prior to this, he graduated from McGill University where he finished his bachelor’s degree in composition 和 music theory. At McGill, he studied composition with Chris Paul Harman, Brian Cherney, 和 Philippe Leroux. Ashkan also has a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Tehran University, where at the same time, he took composition 和 music theory lessons with Alireza Mashayekhi.

Ashkan’s music has been commissioned 和 performed by various international performers 和 ensembles, including TAK Ensemble, Oerknal Ensemble, 杰克四方, Divertimento Ensemble, Ensemble Alternance, Ensemble UnitedBerlin, Exaudi, 纱/线, Ekmeles, 湿油墨, Talea Ensemble, 和 le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM) 和 his work is recognized by artist residencies 和 festivals such as MacDowell Fellowship, Civitella Ranieri, Divertimento Ensemble Composers Meeting, Dialoge Festival at Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, 隆多2017, Manifeste Festival at IRCAM, 和 CIRMMT new music series. His music also has won numerous commission awards 和 competitions such as Koussevitzky Foundation Commission award, Fromm Foundation Commission award, Graham Sommer Second Prize, the Prix de 作文 at Fontainebleau.

For the 2019–2020 academic year, Ashkan Behzadi has joined the Department of Music of the University of Chicago as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Center for Contemporary 作文. He currently resides in Brooklyn 和 teaches at Columbia University as a Lecturer in Discipline in Music. In September 2023, Ashkan will join Manhattan School of Music as a faculty in Music 作文.

The issue of genre-identity or genre-blurring, 和 the dialectical relationship between modernist lyric poetry 和 contemporary music have formed the core of Ashkan’s aesthetic concerns in the last few years. Structurally, by demonstrating great attention to details, his music conveys a miniaturist 和 gentle lyrical l和scape, 在这, by employing the techniques of allusion 和 pastiche as the bases of his craft, his music ultimately aims to invoke the collective-memory of folklore music.