A recurring process with shifting sound sources and modest production.

And sometimes recordings of songs/improvisations by Anna.

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.

Rishin Singh (b. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is a composer/performer living in Berlin.

He has been commissioned to compose for The JACK Quartet (US), Piano+ (US), Claire Edwardes (AUS), DNK Ensemble (NL), Prof. Martin Sturm (DE), The Amsterdam Wandelweiser Festival (NL), and others.

His music and playing appear on records released by Beacon Sound, Edition Wandelweiser Records, Another Timbre, Elsewhere, and others.

Singen. Sprechen. Erzählen, mit Leib und Seele.

David McMullin is a contemporary composer with a medieval mindset. He describes his approach to music as sacramental—as a tactile experience to connect us with the Divine. Each composition is a kind of prayer, designed to unlock a spirit of wonder for each listener. “Beautifully free” while possessing a “vivid internal drive” (Hudební Rozhledy, Prague), his music plays with our sense of time and silence. Listeners have described it as spell-casting, kaleidoscopic; mysterious yet purposeful, and centered in ways that make the unexpected feel inevitable.

Alex Eddington is a composer of experimental and not-as-experimental music for concert stage, electronic media, theatre and dance.  

He is also a writer, theatre performer, music/drama teacher and professional opera surtitlist.

Find out more at www.AlexEddington.com
 
Alex's compositions have been performed by professional ensembles like the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Continuum Contemporary Music, and student musicians at organizations like the Suzuki String School of Guelph.

Alex has performed his own original theatre across Canada on the Fringe Festival circuit, and created music/sound for more than 20 theatre and dance productions across the country.

Alex’s music has been recorded by the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra and
released worldwide on their album Canadian Panorama.
His piece "Bubblegum Delicious" was released on the Cambria label in November 2017.

Recent/upcoming commissions: Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Chronos Vocal Ensemble, Toronto Brass Quintet, Jumblies Theatre, Toronto Consort.

Created music for the play "Dark Heart" (Thought For Food Productions) in January 2018.

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