oeuvre

Artwork: Edwaert Collier (1662); Vanitas Still Life.

Artwork: Caravaggio (c. 1600); The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (detail).

Thus Spoke Earth (2020-2022)

This album represents three works from Saman Samadi's composition portfolio accompanying his PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge. 
Instrumentation: violins, viola, cello, piano, and fixed media
Total duration: 56'
Release Date: 5 June 2023Location: Cambridge, UK
Artwork: Caravaggio (1601); Cupid as Victor (detail).
Instrumentation: violin, cello, piano
Duration: 18'
Date: 2020 - April 2021Location: Cambridge, UK
Artwork: Édouard Manet (1876); Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé.
Instrumentation: flute, clarinet, 2 saxophones, strings, guitar, piano, 2 voices
Duration: 45'
Date: May 2022Location: Cambridge, UK
Artwork: Raphael (1509-1511); The School of Athens (detail).
Total duration: 20'
Date: 2018-2019Location: New York, New York, USA

Ahunavaiti Gāthā, stanza I (2018) Ahunavaiti Gāthā, stanza II (2018)Ahunavaiti Gāthā, stanza III (2019)
Artwork: Jusepe Ribera (1600-1652); Philosopher with Mirror.

Aša (2020)

for flute
Duration: 8'
Date: 2020Location: Queens, New York, USA — Cambridge, UK
Artwork: Titian (1558); Portrait of Archbishop Filippo Archinto.

Through a Veil (2021)

for wind quintet and fixed media
Instrumentation: flute, oboe, clarinet in Bb, horn in F, bassoon, and fixed media
Duration: 9'
Date: April 2021Location: Cambridge, UK
Artwork: Caravaggio (c. 1606); Death of the Virgin (detail).

Tears' Scratch (2012)

for two violins
Tears' Scratch, written in Tehran, in 2012, was rendered and recorded by Miranda Cuckson and Austin Wulliman, that was produced by Kristin Samadi, in New York, in October 2016.
Duration: 8' 20"
Date: 15 August 2012 — 20 March 2018Location: Tehran, Iran — New York, NY, USA.
Artwork: Sandro Botticelli (1482); La Primavera (detail).

Bazzad (2012)

for violin and symphony orchestra
Instrumentation: 3.3.3.3 - 4.2.2.1 - 3perc: (1) tom-t (BTAS)/ tam-t(lg)/ BD/ (2) t-bells/ susp-cym(md&lg)/ crash-cym(lg)/ marimb/ vib/ gong(lg)/ (3) timp/ woodb(hrd&lg) - strings > 14.12.10.8.6.
Duration: 12'
Date: 14 June 2012 — 6 May 2014Location: Tehran, Iran — Stony Brook, New York, USA.
Artwork: Caravaggio (1599-1600); The Calling of Saint Matthew (detail).
Paj won first prize for the Counterpoint-Italy International Composition Competition, in 2012, and was given a New York premiere by flutist Linda Wetherill, and pianist Kristin Barone, in December of that same year. 
Instrumentation: flute and piano
Duration: 14'
Date: 2 September 2011 —  24 July 2017Location: Tehran, Iran — New York, NY, USA.
Artwork: Sandro Botticelli (1483 - 1485); The Birth of Venus (detail).

Teryan (2014)

for violin and piano
Duration: 8'
Date: 26 October 2014Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Artwork: John William Godward (1898); A Persian Princess (detail).

Scheherazade (2017)

saxophone quartet no.2
Scheherazade, Samadi's second saxophone quartet, was dedicated to his daughter Clémentine Scheherazade Samadi. This piece was commissioned by LX Saxophone Quartet and was premiered by them at Lincoln Center NYC, on the day Scheherazade was born, the 22nd of June, 2017.
Duration: 6' 29'
Date: 1 June 2017Location: Queens, New York, USA.
Artwork: Jusepe de Ribera (c. 1628-1632); Penitent Saint Peter (detail).
Duration: 14'
Date: May 2022Location: Cambridge, UK

RECORDING

Saman Samadi, Shattering for string quartet, performed by Saman Samadi, violin; Junya Makino, violin; Polly Almond, viola; Sarah Henderson, cello (Cambridge: Saman Samadi Collective, 2023).

Artwork: Peter Paul Rubens (1618). The Union of Earth and Water.

Thus Spoke Earth (2022)

for violin and piano and fixed media
Duration: 25'
Date: Februry 2022Location: Cambridge, UK — New York, USA
Artwork: Guercino (1619-1620); Head of an old Man.
Instrumentation: fl, ob, cl, bsn/horn, tpt, trbn/timp, tom-t/harp/vln, vla, vc, db
Duration: 5' 20"
Date: 2020Location: Cambridge, UK
Artwork: Gerrit Dou (1650-1655); Astronomer (detail).

Mira (2019)

for violin and electronics
Duration: 12' 33"
Date: 19 June 2019Location: New York, New York, USA
Artwork: Guercino (1647-1648); The Persian Sibyl.
A collection of five multimedia compositions, incorporating electroacoustic music and video art.
Total duration: 44'
Date: 2015-2016 — 7 December 2018Location: New York, New York, USA

  1. Ghorbat (2016)
  2. Berceuses (2016)
  3. Vāyu (2016)
  4. Retroception (2016)
  5. Hura (2015)
Artwork: Artemisia Gentileschi (1616-1618); Mary Magdalene (detail).
A collection of five solo and chamber works for saxophone.
Total duration: 47'
Date: 2015-2017 — 7 December 2018Location: New York, New York, USA

  1. Chamrosh, for tenor saxophone (2016)
  2. IVcomplex No.1, for alto saxophone and piano (2015) 
  3. IVcomplex No.2, saxophone quartet no.1 (2015)
  4. Before Your Very Eyes, for saxophone and piano (2015)
Artwork: Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (1890); The Burning of Persepolis (led by Thaïs).

Persia 1909, Iran 1971 (2014)

for four improvising performers
Instrumentalists: a pianist, two percussionists, and a performer of any melodic instrument (oboe is suggested)
Duration: 10'
Date: 19 April 2014Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Artwork: Rembrandt (1628-1629); Self-portrait.
A collection of nine multimedia compositions, incorporating electroacoustic music, video art, and live improvisation.
Total duration: 62'
Date: 2015Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA

  1. Frenzied (2015)
  2. Shattered Mourning (2015)
  3. Injustice (2015)
  4. Desolation (2015)
  5. Ramkali (2015)
  6. Zenith (2015)
  7. Dissident (2015)
  8. Dashtestani (2015)
  9. Satori (2015)
Artwork: Rembrandt (1632); Philosopher in Meditation (detail).
A collection of six short impromptus for piano and electronics.
Total duration: 6'
Date: July 2017Location: Queens, New York, USA.
Artwork: Rembrandt (1627 - 1630); A Man in a Room.
This album is a collection of Saman Samadi's electroacoustic works composed between 2010 and 2014.
Total duration: 50' 12"
Date: 2010-2014 — 14 March 2015Location: Tehran, Iran — Brooklyn, New York, USA
  1. Safhe-ye Nakhl (2014) 
  2. Amiri (2012)
  3. Qatār-e Arvāh (2010)
  4. Magnapinna in the Abdomen of a Newborn (2012)
  5. U-Turn (2011)
Artwork: Joseph Wright (1769); A philosopher by lamplight.
This is a collection of Saman Samadi's piano pieces for which he used an innovative microtonal pitch organization derived from Persian classical music. 
Total duration: 55'
Date: 7 January 2015Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
  1. Oracle (2015)
  2. Solitude (2015)
  3. Sisyphus (2015)
  4. Annica (2015)
  5. Perception (2015)
  6. Madman (2015)
  7. Satire (2015)
  8. Existence (2015)
  9. Deprivation (2015)
  10. Magnetic (2015)
  11. Subjectivity (2015)
Artwork: Sandro Botticelli (1483 - 1485); The Birth of Venus (detail).
Duration: 7'
Date: 6 November 2007 — 8 November 2013Location: Tehran, Iran — Rutherford, New Jersey, USA
Artwork: Caravaggio (1594 - 1596); Narcissus.

Panj (2013)

for orchestra
Duration: 5"
Date: 24 November 2013Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Artwork: Peter Paul Rubens  (1611–1612); The Massacre of the Innocents (detail).

Sound and Fury (2012)

for chamber orchestra
Instrumentation: 1.1.1.1/1.1.1.1/perc./harp/piano/strings
Duration: 14'
Date: 30 December 2012Location: Tehran, Iran
Artwork: Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1496); The Healing of the Possessed Man at the Rialto.

Sheydā

for string orchestra
Duration: 3' 32"
Date: September 2006Location: Tehran, Iran