Shariatzadeh, Golnaz
graduated in 2016 from the violin class at Brooklyn College in New York, where she also studied music performance with Maria Radicheva at the Juilliard School of Music. She graduated in composition and improvisation from Mills College in 2018 after studies with Roscoe Mitchell and Zeena Parkins. She is currently a PhD student at the Faculty of Composition of Harvard University in the class of Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku.
She has received numerous scholarships and grants, including the Ferdinand Gordon and Elizabeth Hunter Morrill Graduate Fellowship, Deakin-Royce Graduate Fellowship, John Knowles Paine, and the George Arthur Knight Composition Prize for the best composition in instrumental music at Harvard.
Her works have been featured at numerous festivals including Wien Modern, Warsaw Autumn, Huddersfield, Gaudeamus, and Mostra Sonora, by ensembles such as Elision and NAMES, from which she also received compositional commissions.
Selected works: Ceres for bass clarinet, piano and percussion (2018), Nashtifan for flute and percussion (2018), Broken Periphery for flute, bass clarinet and percussion (2019), Hollowing for two prepared violins, viola and clarinet (2019), Miaan for prepared cello, trombone and tape (2020), solo oboe for oboe (2020), Zir for string quartet (2020), moon that sank|wet grass for voice, bass clarinet and percussion (2021), Dermatome for three percussion instruments, transducers and tape (2022), in the landscape of my dreams landed two voices, unfulfilled for clarinet, double bass and tape (2022), #48660 for violin, cello and tape (2022), concrete and bones of another for violin, flute, piano, electric guitar, bass clarinet and cello (2022), Animal for violin, flute, piano, clarinet, oboe, cello, percussion and experimental animation (2023), Children’s Games for harp, percussion and double bass (2023), inside me, someone has written all the places i have been for saxophone and experimental animation (2023), fabric of sorrow for alto flute, clarinet, cello, tape and experimental animation (2023).