Setar Performances

2025
Setar player and composer of Comping Mechanisms at Global Consortium concert series, commissioned by Red Cedar Chamber Music, September-October 2025, Cedar Rapids, Tipton, Center Point, Ainsworth, Iowa City, Iowa

Jamshid Jam Duet (setar and live-electronics) at Meandering River, A site-specific listening experience, Lagoon Shelter House, University of Iowa, May 18, Iowa City, IA

Solo setar concert at Uniterian Universalist Society as the Artist-in-Resident, April 27 & May 4, Coralville, Iowa

2024
University of Minnesota Twin Cities Music, Jamshid Jam Duet, March 11; Minneapolis, MN

2023
Setar player of the Hunchback of Notre Dame project; live soundscore, co-composed by Jean-François Charles and Nicolas Sidoroff; Film Scene Theatre; October 31, Iowa City, IA

Stanley Museum of Art, Jamshid Jam Duet; September 22, Iowa City, IA

Impromptu Fest 2023, organized by New Music Chicago, Jamshid Jam Duet, September 12-16; Chicago, IL

University of Nebraska at Omaha, Jamshid Jam Duet, September 11; Omaha, NE

Iowa State University, Jamshid Jam Duet invited by Ritwik Banerji, September 12; Ames, IA

The University of Iowa Musicology and Music Theory Colloquium, Jamshid Jam Duet, September 8

A Sonic Response to Maryam Taghavi’s Solo Exhibition Jamshid Jam Duet; Blanc Gallery, Chicago, IL

The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), Jamshid Jam Duet, April 7-8, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City, NY

TurnUp Multimedia Festival, Jamshid Jam Duet, March 23-25; University of Arizona at Tucson, Tucson, AZ

MOXSonic Music Festival, Jamshid Jam Duet, March 14-16, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO

Free Electronic Music Improvisation, Intermedia and Sculpture Open House, University of Iowa Visual Arts Building, March 3

2022
Album Release for Jamshid Jam (setar and live-electronics, published by New Flore Music), Public Space 1; October

NYC Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit 2022, Jamshid Jam Duet; April 19, Held by the Entertainment Technology Department of the New York City College of Technology (CUNY City Tech), Voorhees Theater, New York City, NY

A Sonic Response to Maryam Taghavi’s Solo Exhibition, A Form By Which To Be Possessed, Jamsid Jam Duet; Chicago Artists Coalition; November 13; Chicago, IL

2021
Front Porch Music Festival; September 25; Iowa City, IA

Englert Theatre’s Online Concert Series Stages, Jamsid Jam Duet, February; Iowa City, IA

2019
Struggle for Pleasure, composed by Joseph Norman, The University of  Iowa Department of Dance Gala 2019: In Motion; Hancher Auditorium, November 15-16

iHearIC concert series, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, March; Iowa City, IA

Feed Me Weird Things concert series, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, May; Iowa City, IA

Grant Wood in Paris, an opera composed by Jean-François Charles; Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, April; Cedar Rapids, IA

2018
Setar improvisation concert, Feed Me Weird Things concert series, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, June; Iowa City, IA

2017
Setar improvisation concert, iHearIC concert series, November; Iowa City, IA