Cuatro Puntos Ensemble

Friday, November 1, 2019 from 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Event Details

WHEN
Friday, November 1, 2019 from 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm
WHERE
Alumni Concert Hall, College of Fine Arts at 5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213
COST
This is a free event!
CONTACT
School of Music Box Office
412-268-2383 412-268-2383
Description
Cuatro Puntos String Quartet
Sounds of Persia
Persian Santur Master Dr. Dariush Saghafi
Iranian-American Composer Reza Vali
 
Traditional and Contemporary Music from Iran for Santur and String Quartet
Friday, November 1, 2019, 8:00 PM
Alumni Concert Hall
College of Fine Arts
Carnegie Mellon University

The resident string quartet of Cuatro Puntos will be joined by Persian santur master Dr. Dariush Saghafi and Iranian-American composer Reza Vali. Get lost in a soundscape foreign from Western musical traditions as Dr. Saghafi performs a traditional improvised solo on santur, then hear two traditions merge as the Cuatro Puntos String Quartet and Dr. Saghafi perform Dr. Vali's compositions. The compositions performed are from Cuatro Puntos' recent album Sounds of Persia, released on Arkadash Records.

Reza Vali was born in Ghazvin, Iran, in 1952. He began his music studies at the Conservatory of Music in Tehran. In 1972 he went to Austria and studied music education and composition at the Academy of Music in Vienna. After graduating from the Academy of Music, he moved to the United States and continued his studies at the University of Pittsburgh, receiving his Ph.D. in music theory and composition in 1985. Mr. Vali has been a faculty member of the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University since 1988. He has received numerous honors and commissions, including the honor prize of the Austrian Ministry of Arts and Sciences, two Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships, commissions from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Kronos Quartet, the Carpe Diem String Quartet, the Seattle Chamber Players, and the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, as well as grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Pittsburgh Foundation, and the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust as the Outstanding Emerging Artist for which he received the Creative Achievement Award. Vali's orchestral compositions have been performed in the United States by the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Baltimore Symphony, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra 2001. His chamber works have received performances by Cuarteto Latinoamericano, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Carpe Diem String Quartet, Kronos Quartet, the Seattle Chamber Players, and the Da Capo Chamber Players. His music has been performed in Europe, China, Chile, Mexico, Hong Kong, and Australia and is recorded on the Deutsche Grammophon, Naxos, New Albion, MMC, Ambassador, Albany, and ABC Classics labels.
 
 
 

 

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Cost & Tickets

This is a free event!
Organizer

School of Music Box Office

Phone: 412-268-2383 412-268-2383

music-communications@andrew.cmu.edu
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Alumni Concert Hall, College of Fine Arts

5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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