“My Ruthless Companion” from the album “Placeless”, released on March 1, 2019 Artist: KRONOS QUARTET, Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat Poem: Rumi | Melody: Mahsa Vahdat Arrangement: Sahba Aminikia Video edit by Marianne Lystrup, based on filming done by NRK during the recording at Kulturkirken Jakob, Oslo November 2018.
Sound Only Sound Remains by Sahba Aminikia
Performed by: Kronos Quartet and San Francisco Girls Chorus Feb 5, 2016, SFJAZZ, San Francisco Featuring: Ouldooz Pouri, Mina Momeni and Loreta Hayrapetia Contributors: Forough Farrokhzad, Roohangiz, Raeeka Shehabi-Yaghmei, Tara Tiba, Nazli Rahmanian
Sahba Aminikia composed "The Little Black Fish" for Brooklyn Youth Chorus's 25th Anniversary Project, Silent Voices. Silent Voices harnesses the power of young people to be instruments of change, giving voice to those silenced or marginalized by social, cultural or religious circumstances.
World premiere; recorded at the 2014 Switchboard Music Festival (www.switchboardmusic.com) Tar o Pood (Warp and Weft) I. Tarh II. Bâft III. Pardâkht
WHEN I'M SIXTY-FOUR SAHBA AMINIKIA FEAT. MINA MOMENI AND AWESÖME ORCHESTRA COLLECTIVE ARRANGEMENT: SAHBA AMINIKIA VOCALS: MINA MOMENI GUITAR: MINA MOMENI VIOLINS - LAURA SHIFLEY AND COREY JOHNSON VIOLA - SAHIB-AMAR KHALSA CELLO - DEVON MCCLIVE ENGINEERED BY: ALBERTO HERNANDEZ AND MEHRDAD MAHDI MIXED BY: ALBERTO HERNANDEZ PRODUCED BY: LYZ LUKE & JOE BAGALE MASTERING ENGINEER: PIPER PAYNE
Join Resonance host, Sarah Cahill, for an interview with the members of Kronos Quartet, as well as composer, Sahba Aminikia, for a conversation about their recent performance at the Exploratorium. For over more than 40 years, this San Francisco–based foursome have performed works by a diverse array of composers—Ornette Coleman, Sigur Ros, and Bela Bartok. And they’ve collaborated with performers throughout the musical world—a Bollywood vocalist, an Inuit throat singer, and a Mexican rock band.
Sea Prayer: a 360 illustrated film by award-winning novelist Khaled Hosseini
Shetâbân - Sahba Aminikia Viola: Hannah Nicholas Performed at San Francisco Conservatory of Music Recital Hall April 20, 2012
Performed on Oct. 28, 2019, in John Philip Sousa Band Hall in Washington, D.C., as part of the Marine Band's Fall Chamber Music Series. GySgt Sheng-Tsung Wang and SSgt Foster Wang, violin SSgt Sarah Hart, viola SSgt Caroline Bean Stute, cello Concert program and notes: https://www.marineband.marines.mil/Po...
Taro Pood (Warp & Weft) (2014) Performance from the premiere of the piece by Kronos Quartet at Switchboard Festival 2014, Brava Theatre, San Francisco, CA Visuals by: Vafa Khatami Commissioned by: Nasrin Marzban and Iranian Cultural Community of Ann Arbor
One Found Sound performs Shāhmāran by Sahba Aminikia (world premiere) Premiered and commissioned by One Found Sound at Heron Arts in San Francisco April 6, 2019
The Book of Kings (2021) Based on the 10th century epic poem by: Ferdowsi Narrated by: Mojdeh Shamsaie Performers: The Living Earth Show Music: Sahba Aminikia Video and Visuals: Kevork Mourad
As part of the Pohoda in the Air online festival, Kronos Quartet premiered an expanded performance of Sahba Aminikia's re-imagination of Hassan Kassai’s theme "Salam Aleykom," which Kronos originally released as a work for quartet.
Music: Sahba Aminikia
San Francisco Girls Chorus Valérie Sainte-Agathe, Artistic Director Chorus School Level II Monica Covitt, director With special guests Kronos Quartet, The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and the Sirkhane Circus School
Nasrin’s Dream is inspired by the voices of the people from all around the world, every one of them appearing like drops of rain: once these drops turn into rain, no power in the world will be able to resist them.
Sahba Aminikia: House of Circus with video by Pinar Demiral and featuring the "Circus Heroes" of the Sirkhane Social Circus School (www.sirkhane.org) Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra Artistic Director, Brian Dowdy
DARDE MOSHTARAK (SHARED PAIN), by Parviz Meshkatian, Arr. Sahba Aminikia for Kronos Quartet, Shiraz Choir.
Commissioned by and written specifically for Verdigris, this WORLD PREMIERE immerses its audience into a love story. The story of Rumi and Shams is one of pure transformation. Love means losing yourself into a space where real change may emerge. Sahba’s work inhabits this ancient poetry and music and language and takes the contemporary listener on this same journey of discovery. Verdigris Ensemble presents its Dallas World Premiere of “SHAMS”
Phoenix reflects Music of Remembrance’s commitment to commissioning and premiering new works that bring a human dimension to challenges confronting us in the world. It is a powerful musical statement about the current women’s rights struggle in Iran, scored for voices representing three generations of Iranian women.
Composer Sahba Aminikia has created an extraordinary multi-media experience for his 5-month residency at 836M. The Language of the Birds—sometimes known as The Conference of the Birds—is a poem by the 12th-century mystic Attar of Nishapur and among the most treasured Sufi writings, revered by Rumi and others over centuries.
TED Fellow and composer Sahba Aminikia brings the healing power of dance, storytelling, music and performance to some of the most dangerous places on Earth. By celebrating children and their communities with beauty and joy, he shows how to cultivate hope, connection and love — even in conflict zones. "The ultimate power is in unity," Aminikia says. (Recorded at TED Fellows Films 2024 on April 16, 2024)