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Composer | Researcher | Sound Artist

Dariush Derakhshani

Education

<aside> <img src="/icons/school_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/school_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> University of California, Santa Barbara

Doctor of Philosophy, Music Composition 2020–2024

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<aside> <img src="/icons/school_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/school_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> Royal Conservatory The Hague

Postgraduate, Sonology 2019–2020

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<aside> <img src="/icons/school_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/school_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Master of Music, Music Composition 2017–2019

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<aside> <img src="/icons/school_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/school_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> University of California, Santa Barbara

Pillars of Teaching Assistantship 2021

• Four Pillars </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/school_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/school_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> California State University, Northridge

Bachelor of Music, Music Composition 2015–2017

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Principal Teachers

<aside> <img src="/icons/note-eighth_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/note-eighth_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> João Pedro Oliveira

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<aside> <img src="/icons/note-eighth_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/note-eighth_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> Curtis Roads

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<aside> <img src="/icons/note-eighth_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/note-eighth_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> David Garner

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<aside> <img src="/icons/note-eighth_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/note-eighth_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> Liviu Marinescu

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Awards and Grants

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2023

2022

2021

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

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Academic Appointments

<aside> <img src="/icons/graduate_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/graduate_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> University of California, Santa Barbara

Teaching Associate – Beginning & Intermediate Composition [ SEP/2022 – JUN/2023 ]

Teaching Assistant – Computer Music (Instructor of Record: Curtis Roads) [ SEP/2021 – JUN/2022 ]

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<aside> <img src="/icons/graduate_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/graduate_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> Royal Conservatory of The Hague

Tutor – Programming and Music I [ SEP/2019 – MAY/2020 ]

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<aside> <img src="/icons/graduate_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/graduate_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Sound Engineer [ SEP/2018 – MAY/2019 ]

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Workshops & Presentations

<aside> <img src="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> 2023

• Workshop with Annette Vande Gorne discussion of spatialization techniques and space design </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> 2022

• California State University, Northridge invited guest composer to discuss stochastic methods of composition
• University of California, Santa Barbara presentation on Sonar Eclipse in Composition Forum </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> 2021

• Visiones Sonoras 17 presentation on “Expansion of Choice Through Stochastic Methods”
• University of California, Santa Barbara presentation on Pārsa in the Composition Forum
• SCI National Student Conference presentation on stochastic compositional techniques in Pārsa </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> 2018

• Divertimento Ensemble Workshop with Mauro Lanza
• Festival Mixtur Workshop with Tristan Murail, Alexander Schubert and the PHACE Ensemble </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> 2017

• Dias de Música Electroacústica presentation on Synced </aside>

Festivals & Residencies

<aside> <img src="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> 2024

• ICMC 2024 Selected for a performance of Pulsar Rays </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> 2023

• Akusmatik Festival Selected for a performance of Pulsar Rays
• ICMC 2023 Selected for a performance of Pulsar Rays
• Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica 2023 Selected for a performance of Pulsar Rays
• SEAMUS 2023 Selected composer to present (d)evolution at the 2023 conference at New York University </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> 2022

• KotorArt Festival Selected for a ten-day residency to compose two new commissions for string quartet and electronics </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> 2021

• REF - RESILIENCE FESTIVAL Selected for a performance of Pārsa
• SCI National Student Conference Selected for a performance of Pārsa </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> 2019

• Divertimento Ensemble Selected to compose a new work for Divertimento Ensemble and work with composer Fabien Lévy and Francesco Filidei
• 25th Young Composers Meeting Selected to compose a piece for orkest de ereprijs and work with composers Anna Korsun, Silvia Borzelli, Martijn Padding, Richard Ayres, and Ed Bennett
• Barcelona Modern Selected to compose a piece for Joan Martí-Frasquier and work with composer Philippe Hurel </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> 2018

• Composers Conference Two-week residency to attend masterclasses with Mario Davidovsky, Alex Mincek, and Rand Steiger; and compose a piece for Conference Ensemble
• Université d'Altitude Ten-day residency to attend masterclasses with Raphaël Cendo, Yann Robin and compose a piece for l’Ensemble Multilatérale
• IRCAM ManiFeste Four-week residency to attend Ensemble Intercontemporain Composition Workshop, work with composer Marko Nikodijević, attend MaxMSP and audio programming courses, and attend daily presentations by renowned composers such as Helmut Lachenmann
• Estalagem da Ponta do Sol Residency Ten-day residency to study with Patricia Alessandrini and Gilbert Nouno and compose a piece for Keiko Murakami </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/more_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> 2017

• Dias de Música Electroacústica One-week residency to study with João Pedro Oliveira and Jaime Reis and compose Time for 8-channels
• Kyiv Contemporary Music Days One-week residency to study with João Pedro Oliveira and Jaime Reis and compose Time for 8-channels
• Ecoles d’Art Américaines de Fontaineblea One-month residency to study with Allain Gaussin and François Paris and compose Synced </aside>

Notable Collaborations

<aside> <img src="/icons/note-sixteenth-beamed_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/note-sixteenth-beamed_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> Rhythm Method String Quartet

Working on ‘(d)evolution’ for the SEAMUS 2023 Conference 2023

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<aside> <img src="/icons/note-sixteenth-beamed_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/note-sixteenth-beamed_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble

Improvising with Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer 2019

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