Highlighting the season is the annual international new music festival, CAMPGround26, March 5-7. This three-day festival is a hub of new music and collaboration, showcasing 20 to 25 compositions, including world premieres, featuring a collaboration with the Iranian Female Composers Association with commissioned IFCA composers Mojan Alaiyeh, Negar Soleymanifar, and Parastoo Shafiei.

In collaboration with the Iranian American Women Foundation, this salon will feature excerpts from Nava-Avaz to raise funds in support of the Spring workshop in New York City

New Works Pitch Session Excerpts from Nava Avaz IFCA Collective Opera presented by Bahar Royaee (music director), Aida Shirazi and Niloufar Nourbakhsh (co-artistic directors), and Bridgid Bergin (creative producer)

Sahar Helmi Eternal Threads of Hope (World Premiere)

Niloofar Karimi Solo for Violoncello (World Premiere)

Negar Zolfaghar A Wandering Glimmer traces its solitary path

Arghavan Niroumand Echoes of freedom

Deniz Tafaghodi and Farbod Maeen 35.710147,51.398923

Aso Kohzadi Navayi

Mina Arissian Femme Dans Le Mirror No.1_3

Deniz Tafaghodi and Farbod Maeen Co-created work by Zerone Duo “35.710147,51.398923” (World Premiere)

Soosan Lolavar Mâh Didam (I Saw The Moon)

Niloufar Nourbakhsh Veiled

Mojgan Misaghi Three Miniatures for Bowless Violin

Aida Shirazi Selections from Soliloquy of the Unnamed

Golnaz Shariatzadeh Variation on Schubert’s Der Tod und das Mädchen (World Premiere)

Nilufar Habibian Rabete (World Premiere)

Negin Zomorodi Tremoulous Shadow (World Premiere)

Anahita Abbasi Situation IV / Io e iO (2016)

Bahar Royaee Two sands engraved an image in the corner of my memory (2022)

Golnaz Shariatzadeh Fish (2024)

Niloufar Shiri SAAR (2024)

Commencing with original compositions by Bahar Badieitabar and Mahya Hamedi, they collaborate and improvise with other musicians to weave a narrative of empowerment and courage through innovative forms in music making and performance. This concert is Funded in part by The Amphion Foundation, Inc.

A world premiere by composer Atefeh Einali, featuring Mezzo-Soprano Solmaz Adeli and Pianist Ava Nazar

Peabody Camerata and Vocal Chamber Ensembles, Beth Willer, conductor & Director of Choral Studies with Negar Afazel, violin

After All Is Gone” for Violin Solo (2021) by Jane K Evgeniya Kozhevnikova,

Violin: Negar Afazel

“Portrait” for SSSM quartet & “Soliloquy of the unnamed” by Aida Shirazi

Violin: Negar Afazel, Voice: Marjorie Sheiman

“Woman, Life, Freedom”, A Monodrama for Solo Violin and SSAA Choir (world premiere)

Negar Afazel (Violin) and Peabody Camerata

Composers: Sarah Rimkus, Jane K “Evgeniya Kozhevnikova”, Anna Pidgorna, Bahar Royaee, and Negar Afazel

The concert features the world premiere of Golnaz Shariatzadeh’s work fabric of sorrow for saxophone, electronics and animation, commissioned by MATA Presents 2023.

Embodying an array of emotions and reflections – grief, loss, stasis, nostalgia, dream states, and hope – These solo works speak together: each a solemnly sovereign single voice saying what it must.