Performed by Tom Karines
For ACF, Philadelphia Chapter

Rubayiat for Cello solo  (All movements)

Premiere: 07 July 2018
Sinagoga de la Congregación Israelita Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Orquestra Criança Cidadã
Nilson Galvão Jr., Conductor

Sacrifice Of Brothers for String Orchestra

2022 – When They Broke Down the Door – Soprano and Orchestra
Based on a poem by Fatemeh (Shahrzad) Shams, translated by Dick Davis
(1, 1, 1, 1 – 1, 1, 1, 0 – 1 percussion - piano/melodica – strings)
Premiere:   July 2022, Brandeis University, MA
Sharon Harms, Soprano - Holly Druckman, Condutor

Cover: Nima Karimi

When they broke down the door

Performed by Argus Quartet 
at Rock Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
November 10th, 2021
https://www.argusquartet.com/

Solitary Confinement

Narrative (for cello solo)

Premiered by Mahya Hamedi, Voice - Carlos Santiago, Violin - 
Melinda Rice, Viola - Tom Kraines, Cello - Matt Engle, Bass 
December 2022, William Way Community Center, Philadelphia, PA

This Is Not A Poem

Commissioned by the Detroit Composers' Project
Performed at St. Matthew's & St. Joseph's Episcopal Church, Detroit, MI
December 19, 2018
Performers: 
Kellen Degnan
Wesley Hornpetrie
Ben Rogers
Hanna Brooke Rumora

Motrebi (for cello quartet)

2019 - Remembrance of a duty
*Commissioned by Fresh Inc. Festival, Steven R. Gerber Trust Commissioning Grant
Chamber Orchestra, ca. 8’
(1, 1, 1, 1 - 1, 0, 0, 0 - piano - 1, 0, 1, 1, 1)
Premiere:  16 June 2019
University of Wisconsin Parkside, Francis Bedford Recital Hall, Kenosha, WI
Members of the Fifth House Ensemble and participants of the Fresh Inc. Festival
Eli Chen, Conductor

Photo Credit: Alexander Karjaka

Remembrance of a duty

2019 – You are enough 
Commissioned by Kaylee Bernard
Saxophone Sextet, ca. 5’
(1 sop. sx, 2 alto sx, 2 tenor sx, 1 bari. sx)
Premiere: 05 October 2019
Art-Reach Gallery, Mount Pleasant, MI (three performances)
Alex Toth (sop. sx), Justin Evangelist, Kaylee Bernard (alto sx), Sydney Pointer, Aaron Rajewski (t. sx), Taylor Huitema (bari. sx)

Photo Credit: Kennen White

You Are Enough, for saxophone sextet

Sepehr Pirasteh (b. 1993) is a composer and conductor born in Shiraz, Iran. His compositions draw on Persian classical and folk as well as contemporary classical music vocabularies to express his concerns and fears about the political and social realities of the world we are living in.

Sepehr Pirasteh

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