Golfam Khayam گلفام خیام
E v e n t s
March 19 2025 London Symphony Orchestra, Barbara Hannigan
March 06 2025 Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Barbara Hannigan
13 Feb. 2025
Premiere of Double concerto with Violin/ traditional Persian voice and string orchestra. Commissioned by O'Modernt
Queen Silvia Concert hall Stockholm/ Sweden.
September 30 2024 Lecture, Venice Biennale Musica
September 28 2024, Premiere SAZ, Venice Biennale Musica
September 13 2024, Festival Multimod, Belgrade, Serbia
September 20 2024, Premiere "Ancient Crafts 2024A.C" Muriel Razavi Viola solo, Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation,
June 27 2024, Premiere NOOR , Festival Aix en Provence
June 26 2024 Composer in Residence, Master class
24-27 April 2024, Show of Hands, Arter Museum, Istanbul
6, 7 April 2024 Premiere of Viola and Santour, Bridgeskammer orchester, HR-Sendesaal
October 20 2023, Maison de la radio et de la musique: Auditorium;Haydn, Khayam, Busoni, Vivier;Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France
September 24, 2023, Festival of Mediaeval and Renaissance Music Flores Musicae, Slovenia
June 15, 2023, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, HARPA, Barbara Hannigan, world premier " I'm not a tale to be told"
June 9, 2023, Ojai Music Festival, " Lost wind", LA
April 7, 2023, Radio France Orchestra,I'm not a tale to be told ( cancelled: strike), Paris
November 16 London Contemporary Orchestra, "Simorgh" Royal Festival Hall
November 6, 2022, ICE ensemble, FIU Music Festival
October 15, Skirball LaGuardia PlaceNew York, NY,
October 23, 2022, Premiere Viola Concerto, National state orchestra of Niedersachsen, Northeim
October 23, 2022, Premiere Viola Concerto, National state orchestra of Niedersachsen, Northeim
October 22, 2022, Premiere Viola Concerto, National state orchestra of Niedersachsen, Bersenbrück
October 21, 2022, Premiere Viola Concerto, National state orchestra of Niedersachsen, Hannover
July 7, Night Triptych, Tehran Contemporary Music festival
July 6 , Viola Ritornello for Solo viola, Tehran Abgineh Museum of Glass
May 17, 2022 - Composing New Perspectives - Female Voices From Iran at Opera America (New York, NY)*
The Iranian Female Composers Association and loadbang
April 17, 2022 - Composing New Perspectives - Female Voices From Iran at Tufts University (Boston, MA)
April 12, 2022 - Composing New Perspectives - Female Voices From Iran at SUNY Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY)
April 4-8, Improvisation interactive workshop, IRCAM, Paris
17.12.2021 Towards Sounds, HilbertRaum, Exhibition, curated by R.Wiesenfeld, Berlin
17.12.2021 Towards Sounds, HilbertRaum, Exhibition, curated by R.Wiesenfeld, Berlin
26. 11. 2021 Online premiere of sound art Why Would We Remain? - poem by Z.Ardó, Music by Golfam Khayam, SOAS click here
08. 11. 2021 Lecture, Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum, City, University of London
22- 24. 10. 2021 Recital, Workshop "The Creative Process" , Koninklijk Conservatorium, Brussels
03.10.2021 Premier, Song Cycles with Haleh Seifizadeh, Bor Zuljan,"Troubadours", KulturniDom, Slovenia- postponed (covid).
24.09.2021 NAQSH DUO, Gemeindesaal Obstgarten Stäfa, Zurich Switzerland
15.09.2021 Towards Sounds, re:future, curated by J.P.Frühsorge and R.Wiesenfeld, Berlin
07.09.2021 , Seven Valleys of Love - Illusions (2020)
für Paetzold-Subgrossbassblockflöte solo, Sylvia Hinz, Unerhörte Musik, Berlin
click HERE for online stream.20:10 CEST.
18.07.2021 William Kanengeiser, Lost Land, SanFransisco Performances, Herbst Theatre, CA,USA
12.06.2021 Premier, "Car je nous vois" , Opera de-ci-de la festival aix en provence,France
09.05.2021 Retrospective, IFCA (Iranian Female Composers Association) Colloquium, to request link click here
08, 09.04.2021 USA Premier, Simorgh and Murmuration for string Orchestra, New West Symphony, click here
24.03.2021 Premier new program, NAQSH DUO, International Tuberculosis Day, ToBeContinued, click here
05.02.2021 Premier, "Lost Land" Commission and Performed by William Kanengeiser, Memphis International Guitar Festival, register here
03.02.2021 "Lecture, WOMXN in Art and Technology(online) register here , NOTAM, Oslo, Norway
02.02.2021 Lecture "Framing Tradition into Contemporary Music" CeReNeM Colloquium (Online), organized by ICE , International Contemporary Ensemble, University of Huddersfield, UK.
01.2021 Residency aix en provence, postponed to June, dates to be announced, aix en provence France
07.11.2020 & 14.11.2020 klangwerksttatt, premiere, "Seven Vallyes of Love"
click here (event without public) Berlin , Germany
20.10.2020 Festival Présence Féminine, Ritornello pour alto seul Création mondiale,
Isabel Villanueva, Toulon, France
10.2020 NAQSH DUO, Porgy&Bess, Vienna Austria, canceled covid
24.09.2020 NAQSH DUO, Silk Road Project, Zurich, Switzerland , canceled covid
05.2020- 11.2020 NAQSH DUO, canceled covid, closed borders
06.2020, Composer Opera Residency, Festival d'Aix en Provence, France, canceled,covid
12 .06.2020, premiere Song Cycle, Stephan Schmidt, Basel Hochschul FHNW, Basel Switzerland canceled covid
24-27 .03.2020, Composer Residency, Festival d'Aix en Provence, France, canceled covid
21.03.2020 Premiere "Ritornellos" for Viola solo, festival presences feminines, France canceled covid
13.02.2020 SOLO IMPROVISATION Recital, Jaque Dalcroze Hall, Geneva, Switzerland
13.02.2020 Lecture on Ornamentations in Contemporary Music, Geneva Music University (HEMG), Switzerland
01.01.2020 NAQSH DUO, Romanshorn, Switzerland
12.11.2019 "Lost Wind" for Flute and Gong, Salt Lake City,Dumke Hall, UTAH
16.10.2019 Solo, Aarhus International Music Festival, Denmark
15.10.2019 Improvisation Workshop, Royal Academy of Music, Denmark
13.09.2019 Naqsh Duo, Kino Traumstern, Lich, Germany
21.08.2019 Improvisation Workshop, Festival de Musique Improvisée Lausanne, Switzerland
20.08.2019 Naqsh Duo, Festival de Musique Improvisée, Lausanne, Switzerland
12.06.2019 Tradition & Synthesis, Workshop Gozar Academy of Music, Tehran , Iran
17.05.2019 Tradition & Synthesis, Workshop AvayeMehr Music Institute, Tehran , Iran
06.05.2019 Tradition & Synthesis, Workshop Luzern Musik Hochschule, Luzern, Switzerland
05.05.2019 Naqsh Duo, StanserMusiktage, Luzern, Switzerland
09.04.2019 Lost Wind, For solo flute and Gong, Premiere, University of South Carolina, USA
07.03.2019 Naqsh Duo,Bürgerhäuser , Dreieich, Germany
22.02.2019 Naqsh Duo,Lux Aeterna" Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany
10.2018 Naqsh Duo, Multiphonic Festival Köln Germany
09.2018 "Show of Hands" , premiere of Solo guitar " Leili's Lullaby. TEhran, Iran
08.2018 "Persian Flute Anthology" Commission by Kelariz Keshavarz, USA
03.2018 " composition residency" Commission by Göthe institute Belgrade. SERBIA
02.2018 " Diaspora" project Commission by William Kanengeiser, TBA. Ca. USA
29.09.2017 Performance & Panel discussion "NIGHT Triptych" , Georgetown University, USA
FRIDAY MUSIC SERIES:
24-29.06.2017 Recording Project, Duo Noire, " seven works by seven women composers", Night Triptych, New York, USA
24.05.2017 "Night Triptych", Premiere by Duo Noire, New York Classical Guitar Society, USA
06.05.2017 "Whisper Song", Swiss premiere by Luca Vimercati, Geneva, Switzerland
27.04.2017 Naqsh Duo, Women in Jazz, Georgenkirche Halle, Germany
31.03.2017 Naqsh Duo, Conde Duque, Madrid
30.03.2017 Naqsh Duo, Glatt&Verkehrt, Krems, Austria
25.03.2017 Naqsh Duo, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
28.02.2017 USA premiere , Jordan Dodson "Metropolis Ensemble, New York
06.02-11.02.2017 Workshop, "Semaine d’improvisation", University of Geneva
04.11.2016 Guitar Concerto, Premier,MultiMod festival, conductor: Elena Schwarz, Geneva
31.10.2016 Naqsh Duo, The AHA! festival "Uni-Verse", Gothenburg Sweden
09.08.2016 Guitar and Improvisation Workshop, Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen
09.08.2016 "Paintings" for ten guitars, Premier, conductor: Roland Haraldson Copenhagen Guitar Festival, Denmark
08.08.2016 Naqsh Duo, Copenhagen Guitar Festival, Denmark
24.07.2016 Naqsh duo, GUmusluk festival Turkey, Bodrum
20.07 - 27.07.2016 Guitar Masterclass, Improvisation, Gumusluk festival Turkey, Bodrum
03.07.2016 Naqsh Duo, CD Launching , Galerie Kremers, Berlin, Germany
01.07.2016 Naqsh Duo, CD Launching , Eine Welt Haus, Munich, Germany
10.06.2016 Duochrome, Viola Recital, Grande Salle. Geneva performed by:
Rafael Giménez-Florence Voide
11.05.2016 Naqsh Duo, live broadcast, RTS (Radio Television Suisse), Espace 2, 12-13
27.05.2016 Gora, "Dara Cokorilo", in the scope of Niksic International Guitar Competition
26.05.2016 Gora, performed by Jelica Mijanovic, City Museum of Podgorica
11.05.2016 Naqsh Duo, live broadcast, RTS (Radio Television Suisse), Espace 2, 12-13
10.05.2016 Naqsh Duo, joint event ECM CD Launching-Open discussion with Manfred Eicher
Haute ecole de Musique de Geneve, Geneva
09.05.2016 Gora, performed by Jelica Mijanovic Muzički Centar Crne Gore, Montenegro
05.05.2016 Naqsh Duo, Rudaki Hall, Tehran
04.05.2016 Naqsh Duo, Rudaki Hall, Tehran
29.04.2016 Duochrome, Diwan Orchestra Concert, Grand Salle, Geneva
1-5.04.2016 Contemporary Music Festival, Lucerne
14.01.2016 Solo Recital, Japanese Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran
14.10.2015 Naqsh Duo, Aarhus International Guitar Festival, Denmark
04-06 .06.2015 Naqsh Duo, recording project, Lugano, Switzerland
22-25.04.2015 Festival Mixtur 2015, Barcelona, Spain
06.02.2015 Lecture-Workshop "Atelier Improvisation"
Jaque Dalcroze Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
05.02.2015 Lecture-Workshop "Atelier Improvisation"
Jaque Dalcroze Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
17.01.2015 Naqsh Duo, Rudaki hall,Tehran, Iran
16.01.2015 Naqsh Duo, Rudaki hall,Tehran, Iran
14.11.2014 Naqsh Duo, "Orient-Occident" Festival, Cité Bleu, Geneva, Switzerland
27.09.2014 Naqsh Duo, Premier, Clarinet: Mona Matbou Riahi, Glatt und Verkehrt, Austria
20.05.2014 Performer-Composer degree Recital, Grande Salle, Geneva,Switzerland
"Improvisation" Guitar & Chamber Ensemble, Premier, Dir: Elena Shwarz,
"Duochrome" , viola: Isabel Villanueva
"Whisper Song", viola: Isabel Villanueva
"Gora" , guitar: Jelica Mijanovic
05.04.2014 Solo/Duo Performance,Lecture Viola: Isabel Villanueva,
"International Colloquium, gestures and emothions"
09.12.2013 "Gora" for guitar solo, world premier, CULTURESCAPES Festival, Basel
guitar: Jelica Mijanovic
23.11.2013 Solo Recital, Aalborg International Guitar Festival, Denmark
16.11.2013 Ensemble Matka, Fonderie Kugler, Geneva
11.05.2013 "Duochrome" for viola & guitar, world premier,Grande Salle,Geneva
07.08.2013 Lecture "Persian Music for Classical guitar" , Royal Danish Academy of Music
06.08.2013 Solo Recital "Copenhagen International Guitar Festival", Denmark
08.08.2013 Solo Recital "Fano International Guitar Festival", Denmark
25-26.08.2013 Duo Recital Viola (Isabel Villanueva) & Guitar, Rudak Hall, Tehran
Premier of "Whisper song"
Duo Recital Viola (Isabel Villanueva) and Guitar, Rudak Hall, Tehran
Premier of "Garden" by Hooshyar Khayam, "Whisper song" by Golfam Khayam
17.10.2012 Solo Recital, Aarhus International Guitar Festival, Denmark