February 15, 2018
Aftab Darvishi
Daughters of Sol
2017 Duration: 6:00
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Score and Parts -
Violin 1
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Violin 2
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Viola
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Cello
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Program Notes
Daughters of Sol
(2017)
Aftab Darvishi
(b. 1987)
Composed for
50 For The Future:
The Kronos Learning
Repertoire
Artist Statement
“Daughters of Sol is inspired by a poem by contemporary Iranian poet Ahmad Shamloo. This piece contains gentle transitions and detailed changes, which leads to dissolving of different shades and colors. It is a constant evolution between shadows and lights. It is a journey about conveying gentle circular movements, which I think it resembles cycles of life. We evolve and dissolve in gentle and harsh conversions. We change colors, yet we tend to go back to our roots despite of our differences.”
Aftab Darvishi
Optional Video
This video was created as an optional accompaniment to performances of Daughters of Sol. This video includes audio for reference, which should be muted for performances. The video file may also be downloaded here.
Art Director: Aftab Darvishi
Video: Tahmineh Monzavi
Video Mapping: Siavash Naghshbandi
Performer: Ava Darvishi
Composer Interview
Aftab Darvishi discusses her musical background, her relationship with Kronos, the piece she wrote for Fifty for the Future, and more.
What's special about Aftab and her music is this contact with breathing. Her music is very alive in the most natural way, and you feel this in this sense of inhale, exhale. She's not a bowed string player, but somehow you feel that she understands what a bow can do."
David Harrington
Artistic Director, Kronos Quartet
What's special about Aftab and her music is this contact with breathing. Her music is very alive in the most natural way, and you feel this in this sense of inhale, exhale. She's not a bowed string player, but somehow you feel that she understands what a bow can do."
David Harrington
Artistic Director, Kronos Quartet
Artist’s Bio
Aftab Darvishi
Iran / Netherlands
Aftab Darvishi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1987. She started playing violin at age five, and as she grew older, she got in touch with other instruments like the kamancheh (Iranian string instrument) and classical piano. Darvishi has studied Music Performance at University of Tehran, Composition at Royal Conservatory of The Hague and Composing for film and Carnatic Music (South Indian music) at Conservatory of Amsterdam.
Darvishi has presented her music in various festivals in Europe and Asia working with various ensembles. She has also attended various artistic residencies, such AiEP Contemporary Dance Company (Milan), Kinitiras studio (Athens), and Akropoditi Dance center (Syros). She is a former member of KhZ ensemble; an experimental electronic ensemble with supervision of Yannis Kyriakides that has performed in various festivals such as the Holland Festival. After her graduation, she has been regularly invited as a guest lecturer at the University of Tehran.
In 2014, Darvishi was short-listed for the 20th Young Composer meeting in Apeldoorn (Netherlands) and in 2015, she won the Music Education award from Listhus Artist Residency to hold workshops for presenting Persian music to music teachers at Music School of Fjallabyggd, Iceland. In 2016, Darvishi was awarded the prestigious Tenso Young Composers Award for her piece And the world stopped Lacking you... for a cappella choir.
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