Shahrokh Yadegari - Composer/Sound Designer



 

BIOGRAPHY

Shahrokh Yadegari,
composer, sound designer, and producer, has collaborated with such artists as Peter Sellars, Robert Woodruff, Maya Beiser, Steven Schick, Vibeke Sorensen, Yolande Snaith, John Malashock, David Schweiszer, Michael Dessen, Keyavash Nourai, Hossein Omoumi, and Siamak Shajarian. He has performed and his music and sound designs have been presented internationally in United States, Canada, Chile, Europe, China, Australia, and Cuba in such venues as the Carnegie Hall, Festival of Arts and Ideas, Ravinia Festival, Ruhr-Triennale, Vienna Festival, Holland Festival, Forum Barcelona, Japan America Theatre, 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), founded by Pierre Boulez, and he is one of the founders and artistic director of Kereshmeh Records and Persian Arts Society. Yadegari was the Chair for the subcommittee of the Digitally Mediated Performances of the Art Gallery at SIGGRAPH 2007 in San Diego. He is currently on the faculty as Head of Design at the department of Theatre and Dance at University of California, San Diego, where he has founded a new progressive program in Sound Design. Among his recent collaborations are (The New) Ur Sonata with Steven Schick, Stay the Hand with John Malashock, Tobacco Road with David Schweiser, Provenance with Maya Beiser and Robert Woodruff, and Tower Sounds performed in Tower by Ann Hamilton on Oliver Ranch.

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