Emruz Festival in collaboration with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater present
IFCA hosts an hour-long informal conversation with twenty of its members around the world to discuss creativity in the era of COVID-19. These composers will be joined by the International Contemporary Ensemble’s production and communications coordinator, Bridgid Bergin as the roundtable’s moderator. The conversation will be followed by a ten-minute Q&A open to the audience members and a live performance by sound artist and electronic music composer, Maryam Sirvan, based in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Language: English Duration: 90 minutes (50 minutes conversation, 10 minutes Q & A, 30 minutes performance) Time: 12:00 PM EST, 5:00 PM GMT, 8:30 PM Tehran
Please join us via Zoom
Bridgid Bergin: As an ethnomusicologist, musician, writer, and arts administrator, Bridgid has a passion for the sustainment and preservation of the arts while creating connections to a larger cross-cultural network via various art forms. Her research has focused on Carnatic music, gender and music, and urban theory, questioning notions of space, place, and identity. She received her M.A. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in 2017. Bridgid currently works as the Production and Communications Coordinator for the International Contemporary Ensemble.
The Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA) was established in 2017 by three female-identifying Iranian composers, Anahita Abbasi, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, and Aida Shirazi. IFCA’s mission is to support Iranian female composers throughout their careers and to inspire organizers and ensembles to commission female composers and engage with them for future collaborations.
In 2017, Nourbakhsh started thinking of creating an association that builds a community between the first generation of active Iranian female composers, as she lacked a mentorship herself growing up in Iran. She started the work for the first concert to feature all Iranian female composers at National Sawdust and reached out to Anahita Abbasi and Aida Shirazi via social platforms. Their partnership grew and the three composers established IFCA together. IFCA currently has more than 40 composers as its members who live and work across the globe. Since 2017, IFCA’s music has been featured at numerous festivals and venues including the Direct Current festival in Washington, DC and Mostly Mozart Festival in Lincoln Center.