Soheil Shirangi
Born in December 5, 1987 in Gorgan, Iran.

Education, Courses, and Workshops

  • 1999: Began studying music (Guitar) with Hossein Tavasolinia in Gorgan, Iran.
  • 2010: Studied piano with Bahram Dehghanyar, Tehran, Iran.
  • 2013: Participated in a piano course with Valentin Rokamanykvf (from Tchaikovsky Conservatory), Tehran, Iran.
  • 2014: Attended a classical vocal course with Mitriau Vadim (from Tchaikovsky Conservatory), Tehran, Iran.
  • 2014: Completed a writing orchestra course with Mitriau Vadim (from Tchaikovsky Conservatory), Tehran, Iran.
  • 2013-2014: Graduated from Tehran Conservatory in Music Player Course, Tehran, Iran.
  • 2014: Studied composition (Harmony, Counterpoint, Form, and Analysis) with Ardavan Vosoughi, Tehran, Iran.
  • 2014: Conducting courses with Shahrdad Rohani at Pars Institute, Tehran, Iran.
  • 2015: Modern composition courses with Professor Nader Mashayakhi at Mohamad Esmaeili Institute, Tehran, Iran.
  • 2018: Electronic Music Master Class with Professor Joachim Heintz at Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.
  • 2018: Contemporary Music Center Master Class with Professor Dimitri Papageorgiou at Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.
  • 2019 (August): Scholarship holder at the Hamburg Media Festival, participating in classes and workshops on Film Music, Advertising Music, Game Music, and Sound Design, Hamburg, Germany.
  • 2020 (August): Opportunity for writing solo work with Wichita Symphony Workshop.
  • 2021 (May): Participated in the Really Spicy Opera Workshop, writing an aria for a soprano.

 

Soheil Shirangi is a distinguished composer, director, and music educator with over 14 years of experience in teaching music. He is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Composition at San Francisco State University and holds membership in the National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA) and its San Francisco chapter. His extensive career includes numerous international accolades, performances, and collaborations in the fields of contemporary, classical, and experimental music.

Leadership Roles

  • Manager, Parsik Ensemble (2012–2016): A multi-genre ensemble featuring piano, strings, percussion, and traditional instruments
  • Member and Supervisor, Iran Philharmonic Choir (2016–present): Supervisor of the Bass Ensemble since 2019
  • Founder & Artistic Director, Dream House Ensemble (2018): Focused on performing contemporary compositions in Tehran and beyond

Awards, Recognitions, and Scholarships

2017

  • Second Place, Tehran International Electronic Music Festival

2018

  • Best Composer Nominee, Thirty-third Fajr Festival
  • Diploma Recipient, III International Contest of Choral Composing (A.D. Kastalsky)
  • Recognition for Participation, Simn Festival at the Curitiba Theater, Brazil

2019

  • Recognition for Performance as Director of Dream House Ensemble, 4th Tehran Contemporary Music Festival
  • Scholarship Holder, Hamburg Media Festival

2020

  • Third Place, Orginsky International Composition Competition for Orchestra, Belarus

2022

  • Second Place, CBU University Composition Scholarship for Samat (Duet for Violin and Cello)
  • Recognition for Participation, Alfred Schnittke Akademie International

2024

  • Recognition for Participation, MUSLAB International Electroacoustic Music Exhibition, Prometeo Theater, Quito, Ecuador

Affiliations

  • Since 2016: Member of Iran’s House of Music Composers and the Contemporary Music Center.
  • Since 2024: Membership in the National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA), as well as the San Francisco chapter.

Performance Works

2013

  • September 1: My House is Cloudy — Performed by Parsik Ensemble at Jamejam Studio, Tehran, Iran.

2016

  • September 1: String Quartet No.1 and String Quartet No.2 — Performed by A4 Ensemble at Tehran Book Store, Tehran, Iran.

2017

  • September 2: Suspension No.2 (For Electronic Voices & Prepared Piano) — Performed by Professor Joachim Heintz at Da Hall, Tehran, Iran.

2018

  • February 21: The Remarks No.3 (For Solo Bass Flute) — Performed by Daniela Mars in a collaborative online project.
  • April 22: Suspension No.2 (For Electronic Voices & Prepared Piano) — Performed at Off Borders Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • April 27: The Faulty Sequence No.1 (For Electroacoustic) — Performed at the Third Contemporary Music Festival, Tehran, Iran.
  • June 22: Suspension No.2 (For Electronic Voices & Prepared Piano) — Performed at the Body, Light, Sound Festival, Luigi Cherubini Conservatory, Florence, Italy.
  • September 19: The Hypothesis No.3 (For Multi-Channel Electronic) — Performed at Simn Festival, Curitiba Parana, Brazil.
  • November 23: Suspension No.2 (For Electronic Voices & Prepared Piano) — Performed at Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany.
  • December 5: Trauma (For Accordion and Two Cellos) — Performed by Icon Art Trio at Thalia State Philharmonic Hall, Transylvania, Romania.

2019

  • January 11: The Hypothesis No.1 (For Fixed Media) — Performed by Dream House Ensemble at Niavaran Hall, Tehran, Iran.
  • March 6: The Faulty Sequence No.2 (For Solo Harp) — Performed by Olivia Jageurs in a collaborative online project.
  • May: The Remarks No.4 (For Solo Flute) — Recorded and performed in Phasma Recital Project by Iwona Glinka, Athens, Greece.
  • June 14: Derealization (For Duet Marimba and Bass Clarinet) — Premiered by Transient Canvas at Longy School of Music Conservatory Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • June 20: Indemnity (For 2 Accordions and Fixed Media) — Performed by Dream House Ensemble at the Fourth Contemporary Music Festival, Tehran, Iran.
  • July 27: Homeland (For Fixed Media) — Performed by Yarava Group at the closing of the 3rd International Tehran Electronic Music Festival, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.
  • November 16: Music on Mohamad Azarm Poem — Performed with Dream House Ensemble at Sound Project No.5, Emarat Ruberu, Tehran, Iran.

2020

  • February: Summer (Fixed Media) — Performed at Afarinesh Gallery as part of the After the Descent Project, Isfahan, Iran.
  • April: Suspension No.1 (For Accordion and Fixed Media) — Performed by French artist Benoit Ray in a collaborative online project.
  • May 26: The Vital Sounds (For Fixed Media and Accordion) — Collaboration with Lake Radio in a live release project.
  • August 16 & September 20: Miniatur No.3 (For Solo Violin) — Online performances by Holly Mulcahy (Wichita Symphony Orchestra Project).
  • September 25 & 26: The Hypothesis No.2 (For Fixed Media) — Performed at the 38th International Conference of the World Confederation of Electroacoustic Music, online from the Polish Academy of Music, Krakow.
  • October 5: The Childhood Dream (For Toy Piano) — Performed by David Bohn, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
  • October 11: The Hypothesis No.2 (For Fixed Media) — Broadcast on Radio Kapital, Poland.

2021

  • January: Lament for Theodore (For Solo Bass Flute) — Performed and recorded in the Phasma Recital Project by Iwona Glinka, Athens, Greece.
  • February 5: Mehre Penhan (For A Cappella Choir) — Performed by Iran Philharmonic Choir, Saba Studio, Tehran, Iran.
  • March 27: Short Whisper (For Solo Bass Flute) — Performed at the Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame project by Lisa Cella at the University of Baltimore Concert Hall.
  • April 15: Solo Piano No.1 — Performed by Soheil Shirangi, Saba Studio, Tehran, Iran.
  • June 3: I Brought a Pie Aria (For Soprano and Piano) — Performed by Bree Nichols (Soprano) and Warren Kim (Piano) at The Really Spicy Opera Program.
  • June 16: Your Concept (For Piano, Electronics, and Spoken Words) — Performed at “Deterritorializing the Realm of New Music” during Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival by Anoush Moazzeni.
  • June 22: Short Etude for Solo Piano — Performed by Roxana Baldor in Concert Hall, Argentina.
  • July 7: Trauma (For Accordion and Two Cellos) — Broadcast by ArpaViva Music from Glasgow, Scotland.
  • July 21: Karma (For Piccolo and Flute) — Performed at New Music for Piccolo and Flute by Beth Ratay.
  • October 30: Miniatur No.1 (For Solo Cello) — Performed at the University of North Georgia by Esther Morgan-Ellis.
  • November 5: Samat (Duet for Violin and Cello) — Performed by Ali Jafari Pouyan and Mehrdad Alami, Saba Studio, Tehran, Iran.
  • November 18: ROJA (For Solo Tenor Saxophone) — Performed during Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame featuring saxophonist Drew Joseph Hosler.
  • November 21: Suspension No.1 (For Accordion and Fixed Media) — Performed at Audiovisual Frontiers (Virtual Exhibition), University of California, Riverside.
  • December 29: Abandoned Land (For Cello and Fixed Media) — Performed by Ulrike Brand.
  • December 31: Ghased (For Tenor and Piano) — Performed by Rashid Vatandust at Saba Studio, Tehran, Iran.

2022

  • April 16: The Collection of Suspension (Suspension No.1+2+3) — Performed in Averill Park, NY, USA at the first Arts Letters & Numbers event of the spring.
  • April 19: Crossing on the Way East (For Piano and Duduk) — Collaborative work with Thomas Piercy at New York Opera Studio.
  • May 24: Doubt (For Flute and Piano) — Performed by Meysam Ghdrati and Siavash Damirian at the Music Museum of Iran.
  • July 2: Short Etude for Solo Piano — Performed by Roxana Baldor at La Scala de San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2023

  • January 28: Samat (Duet for Violin and Cello) — Performed by Brian Bromberg and Oliver Page.
  • March 1: Navaye Mahzoon (Solo Piano No.3) — Performed by Soheil Shirangi, Saba Studio, Tehran, Iran.
  • March 22: Samat (Duet for Violin and Cello) — Featured in Steve Danielson Radio’s composer works program.
  • October 27: Homeland (For Fixed Media) — Performed in the virtual section at the 7th Annual Research Conference on Contemporary Composition at the University of North Georgia.

2024

  • January 2: Rahe Rastgari (For Soprano, Alto, Baritone, and Piano) — Performed in four movements at the Opening of Toorandokht Festival, Ghalam Hall, Iranian Book, Tehran, Iran.
  • June 1: Katibeh (Duet for Flute and Guitar) — Flute: Hossein Ebadollahi / Guitar: Bence Hartl; Recorded at Alpo Studio.
  • June 8: Maasoo (For Saxophone Quartet) — Introduced by TC4 Ensemble in an online Composer’s Voice project.
  • September 14: Maasoo (For Saxophone Quartet) — Performed at Brand Library Recital Hall by TC4 Ensemble.
  • December 2-6: Hypothesis No.2 — Performed at MUSLAB International Electroacoustic Music Exhibition, Prometeo Theater, Quito, Ecuador.
  • December 6: Dyslexia (For Microtonal E-Piano) — Performed at the Instruments Symposium, Organon Research Group, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria.

Performances:

  • October 2013: Performance with Parsik Ensemble at Jamejam, Tehran, Iran.
  • September 2016: Performance with A4 Ensemble at Bufeketab, Tehran, Iran.
  • January 2017: Performance with the Iran Philharmonic Choir at Vahdat Hall, Tehran, Iran.
  • February 2017: Performance with the Iran Philharmonic Choir at Milad Hall, Tehran, Iran.
  • August 2017: Mass Missalonga (Mozart) with the Iran Philharmonic Choir at Rudaki Hall, Tehran, Iran.
  • September 2017: Samandarian Ceremony with the Iran Philharmonic Choir at Iranshahr Hall, Tehran, Iran.
  • January 2018: Fajr Ceremony with the Iran Philharmonic Choir at Vahdat Hall, Tehran, Iran.
  • November 2018: Performance at Spreangel Museum, Hannover, Germany.
  • December 13, 2018: Performance with Dream House Ensemble in the first presentation of The Indefinites by John Cage at Ace Gallery, Tehran.
  • January 11, 2019: Performance with Dream House Ensemble for the second project entitled Fixed Sounds featuring works by contemporary foreign and Iranian composers at Niavaran Cultural Center Gallery, Tehran. Notable pieces included works by John Cage, Lamont Young, and Nader Mashayekhi.
  • February 22, 2019: Performance with Dream House Ensemble of avant-garde composer Lamont Young’s works at Gallery No. 14, Tehran.
  • May 2019: Requiem (Dvořák) with the Iran Philharmonic Choir at Vahdat Hall, Tehran, Iran.
  • June 8, 2019: Performance with Dream House Ensemble of C. Terry Riley’s work at Day Show House in collaboration with Yarava Music Group.
  • June 21, 2019: Performance with Dream House Ensemble at the 4th Tehran Contemporary Music Festival featuring works by John Cage and Christian Wolff.
  • July 20, 2019: Performance with Dream House Ensemble at the 3rd Tehran Electronic Music Festival featuring works by Karlheinz Stockhausen.
  • November 16, 2019: Performance with Dream House Ensemble in the fifth project of EMARAT ROOBEROO at Tehran, a musical performance based on the poems of contemporary poet Mohammad Azram.
  • February 22, 2020: Performance at Samandarian Hall with the Iran Philharmonic Choir, Tehran, Iran.
  • September 26, 2020: Recording with Dream House Ensemble of part of the film score Koyaanisqatsi (1982) by Philip Glass, arranged by Parsa Sotoudeh.
  • May 28, 2021: Recording with Dream House Ensemble for the Variations Theme Album at Saba Studio, Tehran. The music was based on texts by John Cage and translated by Ali Ghanbari.
  • April 15, 2021: Solo piano performance of Für Alina (1976) by Arvo Pärt at Saba Studio.
  • April 15, 2021: Solo piano performance of Solo Piano No. 1 (original composition) at Saba Studio.
  • December 4, 2021: Rehearsal and recording of The Cause of My Existence at Sorena Hall, Tehran, based on text by Ai Weiwei and translated by Ali Ghanbari.
  • December 31, 2021: Piano performance of original work Ghased at Saba Studio.
  • April 16, 2022: Performance of Suspension Collection (Suspension No. 1, 2, and 3) at Averill Park, NY, United States during the first Arts Letters & Numbers event of the spring.
  • April 19, 2022: Performance of Crossing on the Way East (for Piano and Duduk), a collaborative work with Thomas Piercy, at New York Opera Studio.
  • July 8, 2022: Performance with Dream House Ensemble at the first Contemporary Music Magazine Festival at Tehran Music Museum Hall.
  • September 2022 – March 2023: Practice and recording of compositions for performance and publication.
  • March 1, 2023: Performance of Navaye Mahzoon (Solo Piano No. 3) by Soheil Shirangi at Saba Studio, Tehran, Iran.
  • March 8, 2023: Performance of Ave Maria by Giulio Caccini with Elmira Bagheri at Saba Studio, Tehran, Iran.

Articles and Presentations:

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Supervisor: Dr. Paul Ellison
Graduate Student: San Francisco State University

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Albums

          Radif of Iranian Music: Skepticism No. 1 — Produced and published by Post Orientalism Music in Berlin, Germany.

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