Farzia Fallah

Farzia Fallah (born 1980 in Tehran) is a composer. Since 2003 she has been living in Germany, and is currently based in Cologne.

Biography

Education

Fallah studied Electronics and Signal Processing at the Sharif University of Technology from 1998-2003, while simultaneously studying with Alireza Mashayekhi and Farimah Ghavamsadri.

From 2007-2014 Fallah studied composition at the University of the Arts Bremen, first with Younghi Pagh-Paan and later with Jörg Birkenkötter. She also studied electroacoustic composition with Kilian Schwoon and Joachim Heinz. From 2014-2016 she studied at the University of Music and Dance Cologne, taking composition lessons with Johannes Schöllhorn.[1]

Career

Her 2016 work, in sechs Richtungen for accordion and tape, features the tanbur playing of Mehdi Jalali.[2] The piece is based on a poem by Mawlana Rumi, in which he searches for his home "in six directions", and not only from a certain place. The tambur is abstracted on the tape part, and attempts a unity of the two instruments despite the different means of sound production. The piece was written for Margit Kern, but has also been performed by Eva Zöllner.[3]

In 2017, she wrote tänzerisch an der Kante, which was written for Ensemble Musikfabrik and her 2015 work for solo alto flute, Posht-e Hichestan, has been performed by the ensemble's flautist, Helen Bledsoe.[4]

In 2017, her work was performed at the launch concert of the Iranian Female Composers Association, founded by Niloufar Nourbakhsh.[5] In the same year, she was also commissioned to write a work for accordion and shawm, for Duo Mixtura (Katharina Bäuml and Margit Kern), which received its premiere at the Acht Brücken Festival.[6]

List of works
  • Ein weiterer Augenblick des stehenden Jetzt (2018) - percussion, piano and video
  • Ausgedehnter Augenblick (2018) - accordion, bass clarinet, cello and video
  • Im selben Augenblick (2017/18) - saxophone, bass clarinet, trombone, percussion, harp and contrabass
  • The expanded moments (2017/18) - accordion, bass clarinet
  • Tänzerisch an der Kante (2017) - ensemble
  • Tänzerisch bis zur Kante (2017) - ensemble
  • Ecco la primavera (2017) - accordion and shawm
  • Lalayi II (2017) - for violin, viola and cello
  • Atemlos lebendig (2016/17) - double bell horn and viola
  • Lalayi (2016/17) - two violas
  • In sechs Richtungen (2016) - accordion and tape
  • Die dritte Schrift (2015/16) - orchestra
  • Posht-e Hichestan (2015) - flute solo
  • Ungepaart und geschlossen (2015) - piano, cello and clarinet
  • Besorgnis der Sperlinge II (2015) - recorder solo
  • Besorgnis der Sperlinge I (2013/14) - recorder and electronics
  • Soovashoon (2012/13) - 19 musicians in 3 groups
  • Frau Meier, die Amsel (2011) - 7 musicians
  • Verwandeltes Lichtgrün (2010/11) - organ and soprano
  • Khosha (2010-2014) - for alto and soprano recorder, bass clarinet and bassoon
  • … und dann befreit..? (2009/10) - violin
  • Lichtabgrund II (2009)
  • Ich und Du, Baum und Regen (2009)
  • Lichtabgrund (2008)
  • „… Miferestamat“ (2008)
  • The ancient Fortress (2007) - cello, baroque harp, piano, and percussion
  • Aus Meerrausch und Sonnenglast (2010) - two channel tape

References
  1. "Farzia Fallah". Filmbüro Bremen e.V. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  2. dastgah Festival (2016-10-14), DASTGAH-Festival - Farzia Fallah: in sechs Richtungen, retrieved 2018-09-03
  3. "Heather Roche and Eva Zöllner » School of Music". music.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  4. Posht-e Hichestan, retrieved 2018-09-03
  5. "5 Questions to Niloufar Nourbakhsh (Founder, Iranian Female Composers Association)". I CARE IF YOU LISTEN. 2018-06-06. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
  6. www.mir.de, m.i.r. media - Digital Agency -. "»chamber remix«". ACHTBRÜCKEN (in German). Retrieved 2018-09-03.
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