ID, Please
ID, Please is an opera about immigration and borders with a libretto by Daniel Hirsch. It received its London premier as part of the 2017 Tête à Tête opera festival and was […]
Girl
Girl was written for the Yale New Music Workshop which took place in Connecticut in June-July 2017. It is based on the Iranian folk melody ‘Dokhtare Boyer Ahmadi’, meaning the girl […]
Manic
Manic is a two-movement string quartet performed by the award-winning Carpe Diem String Quartet. It juxtaposes moments of extreme tension and aggression with sudden instances of calm and stillness. The second […]
Protect Me From What I Want
Protect Me From What I Want, for bass clarinet, cello and tape, was commissioned by the London Sinfonietta in 2015 as part of their Spectrum of Sound series exploring the […]
Zang-e Rangi
I was commissioned by Reading Borough Council to produce a new work for organ and string ensemble to mark the 150th anniversary of the Father Willis organ. Zang-e Rangi, was […]
Truisms (enjoy yourself because you...
This piece takes its title from a series of one-line aphorisms, created by American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer, and posted around Manhattan between 1977 and 1979 in the form of […]
Only Sound Remains
Only Sound Remains is a five movement piece drawing on Iranian and Western music styles and written as part of Stay Close, a 10-month project exploring contemporary music as a […]