Aida Shirazi is an Iranian-American composer and electronic musician working across acoustic and electroacoustic forms. Shirazi’s music is described as ”unfolding with deliberation” by The New York Times, “well-made” and “affecting” by The New Yorker.

In her works for various mediums, Shirazi foregrounds timbre as a primary structural element, with influences drawn from language, literature, and nature.

Shirazi’s music has been featured at festivals Manifeste, Wien Modern, Berliner Festspiele, Wiener Festwochen, ECLAT, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Mostly Mozart, Ojai Music Festival, TIME:SPANS, Istanbul Music Festival, and Tehran Contemporary Music Festival.

Shirazi is a co-founder and co-artistic director of the Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA.)

For each evening of this performance, Rey Khatami will join Aida Shirazi as a collaborator. Khatami is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of performance, storytelling, and installation. Her practice is deeply rooted in lived experience, memory, and socio-political themes, often focusing on identity, migration, and the emotional body. Rey creates immersive spaces and performative situations where stories unfold through voice, gesture, sound, and visual symbolism.

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