Dylan Ebrahimian is a violinist, composer, and producer based in New York and Beijing.

While this program ended in July 2021 after 15 years, I very much enjoyed hosting/producing 'Acoustic Frontiers' a 90 minute program airing electroacoustic and computer processed music by composers from around the world on CKCU fm - ckcufm.com - in Ottawa Ontario Canada.  

Additionally, as you will hear from the tunes that I have posted here, I play sax, mostly jazz, and have done some recordings of original tunes.  The most recent posts are from my current project, 45north band, a 5 piece band playing a Canadian jazz repertoire.  

Mostly these recordings are basement projects.

I also have been on bari sax in a nonet, Alternate Takes.  We recorded our 2nd CD 'Urban Flower' a while back that was released in 2018 with our concert at Merrickville's Jazz Fest.  I've posted a short clip of the first tune from that CD, 'Little Sunflower'

for more information please visit: 
https://ashkanbehzadi.com

Contact: 
behzadi.ashkan@gmail.com

Ashkan Behzadi, a recipient of 2025 Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize and a 2021–2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition, is an Iranian-Canadian composer based in New York. He earned his DMA in composition at Columbia University, where he studied with Fred Lerdahl, George Lewis, and Georg Friedrich Haas. Prior to this, he graduated from McGill University with a bachelor’s degree in composition and music theory, studying composition with Chris Paul Harman and Brian Cherney. Ashkan also holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Tehran University, where, at the same time, he took composition and music theory lessons with Alireza Mashayekhi.
Ashkan’s music has been commissioned and performed by various international performers and ensembles, including Ensemble Recherche, TAK Ensemble, Oerknal Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, Yarn/Wire, JACK Quartet, Grossman Ensemble, Divertimento Ensemble, Ensemble Alternance, Ensemble UnitedBerlin, Exaudi, Ekmeles, Wet Ink, Talea Ensemble, and le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM). 
His work has also been recognized with awards, artist residencies, and participation in festivals such as the Koussevitzky Foundation, Fromm Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, the Graham Sommer Second Prize, the Prix de Composition at Fontainebleau, the MacDowell Fellowship, the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, the Divertimento Ensemble Composers Meeting, the Dialoge Festival at Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, the Manifeste Festival at IRCAM, and the CIRMMT New Music Series.
For the 2019–2020 academic year, Ashkan Behzadi joined the Department of Music at the University of Chicago as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Center for Contemporary Composition. Since september 2023, he teaches at the Manhattan School of Music as a faculty member in Music Composition.
The issue of genre identity or genre-blurring, along with the dialectical relationship between modernist lyric poetry and contemporary music, has formed the core of Ashkan’s aesthetic concerns in recent years. Structurally, his music demonstrates a great attention to detail, conveying a miniaturist and gentle lyrical landscape. By employing techniques of allusion and pastiche as the foundation of his craft, his music ultimately seeks to invoke the collective memory of folklore music.

Hey there, I’m ToTheBurrows! I write songs about the joys and heartbreaks of life. I’ve seen the Back To The Future Musical 3 times and cried every time. If I’m not making music, I’m making Korean BBQ. I hope you enjoy hearing my stories in music form :)

M. Ackerman (formerly modus pony) is an instrumental composer and multi-instrumentalist. He likes toast with peanut butter and a little honey.

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