Shahrokh Yadegari - Composer/Sound Designer



 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Shahrokh Yadegari, composer, sound designer, and producer, has collaborated with such artists as Peter Sellars, Robert Woodruff, Ann Hamilton, Christine Brewer, Gabor  Tompa, Maya Beiser, Steven Schick,  David Schweiszer, Hossein Omoumi, and Siamak Shajarian.  He has performed and his productions, compositions, and designs have been presented internationally in such venues as the Carnegie Hall, Festival of Arts and Ideas, OFF-D'Avignon Festival,  International Theatre Festival in Cluj, Romania, Ravinia Festival, Ruhr-Triennale, Vienna Festival, Holland Festival, Forum Barcelona, Japan America Theatre, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the Institut fur Neue Musik und Musikerziehung (Darmstadt), Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, and Contemporary Museum of Art, San Diego.

Yadegari holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, a Master's in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT's Media Lab, and a Ph.D. in music from University of California, San Diego. He has worked at Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique  (IRCAM), and he is one of the founders and the artistic director of Kereshmeh Records and Persian Arts Society, organizations dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of Persian traditional and new music.  Yadegari is currently the director of Center for Research in Computing and the Arts and on the faculty of the department of Theatre and Dance at University of California, San Diego, where he has founded a progressive program in sound design and composition. He was the Chair for the subcommittee of the Digitally Mediated Performances of the Art Gallery at SIGGRAPH 2007 in San Diego.

Among his recent projects  are composition and direction for {\em Tower Sounds: Ancient Voices and Electronics} performed in Ann Hamilton's Tower on Oliver Ranch, composition and sound design for {\em Stylus}, an installation by Ann Hamilton, composition for {\em Ruins True} a dance-theatre piece based on the work of Samuel Beckett directed by Gabor Tompa, composition of {\em Intervals} a piece for Christine Brewer premiered at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St Louis. adaptation, direction, and composition for {\em Scarlet Stone}, a recent piece based on ancient Persian mythology and related to the contemporary political climate on the Middle East.

 

Upcoming Performance


Siavash Kasrai's

Scarlet Stone (مهره سرخ)

a dance-theatre piece by
in collaboration with

Tickets

San Diego

Mandell Weiss Forum at UCSD
Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 8pm
presented by Persian Cultural Center and Persian Arts Society
Tickets: $50, $35, ($20 student tickets, only avaiable from PCC office)
Available at: PCC office 858-653-0336
Balboa International Market, Parsian Market and Sahel Bazaar
Click here to buy tickets online

Los Angeles

presented by Persian Arts Society

Saturday, December 10, 2011, 8pm
Sunday, December 11, 2011, 7pm
UCLA Mcgowan Hall Freud Playhouse
245 Charles Drive East
Tickets: $45, $55, $75
Available at:
UCLA Central Ticket Office
310 825-2101
www.tickets.ucla.edu
Click here to buy tickets online for Saturday Dec. 10 at 8pm

Click here to buy tickets online for Sunday Dec. 11 at 7pm
Tickerts also available at
Music Box, Q Market and Club 670
www.club670.com
Information: 310 499 1477
مراکز فروش بلیط: میوزیک باکس، کیومارکت و کلاب 670