Niloufar Shiri

Niloufar Shiri is a kamancheh player and composer from Tehran, Iran. Her music carefully weaves the musical and poetic structures of traditional Iranian music with noise and electronics, to produce music that explores the contemporary soundscape of a displaced Iran. She has received many commissions as a composer and has collaborated with numerous ensembles and festivals as a performer and composer including the International Contemporary Ensemble, Long Beach Opera, Mostly Mozart, Ojai Music Festival, Tehran Contemporary Music Festival, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Atlas Ensemble among others. Niloufar’s current projects include a piece for CAMPGround Festival and Cape Symphony.