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Artwork: Edwaert Collier (1662); Vanitas Still Life.
Artwork: Caravaggio (1601); Cupid as Victor (detail).
for piano trio
Instrumentation: violin, cello, piano
Duration: 18'
Date: 2020 - April 2021Location: Cambridge, UK
Duration: 18'
Date: 2020 - April 2021Location: Cambridge, UK
Artwork: Titian (1558); Portrait of Archbishop Filippo Archinto.
Instrumentation: flute, oboe, clarinet in Bb, horn in F, bassoon, and fixed media
Duration: 9'
Date: April 2021Location: Cambridge, UK
Duration: 9'
Date: April 2021Location: Cambridge, UK
Artwork: Jusepe Ribera (1600-1652); Philosopher with Mirror.
for flute
Duration: 8'
Date: 2020Location: Queens, New York, USA — Cambridge, UK
Date: 2020Location: Queens, New York, USA — Cambridge, UK
electroacoustic
Duration: 50'
Date: September 2025Location: Cambridge, UK
Date: September 2025Location: Cambridge, UK
Artwork: Jusepe de Ribera (c. 1628-1632); Penitent Saint Peter (detail).
Duration: 14'
Date: May 2022Location: Cambridge, UK
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.
Duration: 25'
Date: Februry 2022Location: Cambridge, UK — New York, USA
Date: Februry 2022Location: Cambridge, UK — New York, USA
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)
Date: 2018-2019Location: New York, New York, USA
Ahunavaiti Gāthā, stanza I (2018) Ahunavaiti Gāthā, stanza II (2018)Ahunavaiti Gāthā, stanza III (2019)
Artwork: Caravaggio (c. 1606); Death of the Virgin (detail).
for two violins
Tears' Scratch, written in Tehran, in 2012, was performed and recorded by Miranda Cuckson and Austin Wulliman, produced by Kristin Samadi, in New York, in October 2016.
Duration: 8' 20"
Date: 15 August 2012Location: Tehran, Iran
Duration: 8' 20"
Date: 15 August 2012Location: Tehran, Iran
Artwork: Sandro Botticelli (1482); La Primavera (detail).
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.
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.
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).
for violin and piano
Duration: 8'
Date: 26 October 2014Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Date: 26 October 2014Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Artwork: John William Godward (1898); A Persian Princess (detail).
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.
Duration: 6' 29'
Date: 1 June 2017Location: Queens, New York, USA.
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
Duration: 45'
Date: May 2022Location: Cambridge, UK
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
Total duration: 47'
Date: 2015-2017 — 7 December 2018Location: New York, New York, USA
- Chamrosh, for tenor saxophone (2016)
- IVcomplex No.1, for alto saxophone and piano (2015)
- IVcomplex No.2, saxophone quartet no.1 (2015)
- Before Your Very Eyes, for saxophone and piano (2015)
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
Total duration: 62'
Date: 2015Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Frenzied (2015)
- Shattered Mourning (2015)
- Injustice (2015)
- Desolation (2015)
- Ramkali (2015)
- Zenith (2015)
- Dissident (2015)
- Dashtestani (2015)
- Satori (2015)
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
Total duration: 44'
Date: 2015-2016 — 7 December 2018Location: New York, New York, USA
- Ghorbat (2016)
- Berceuses (2016)
- Vāyu (2016)
- Retroception (2016)
- Hura (2015)
Artwork: Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (1890); The Burning of Persepolis (led by Thaïs).
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
Duration: 10'
Date: 19 April 2014Location: Brooklyn, 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
Total duration: 50' 12"
Date: 2010-2014 — 14 March 2015Location: Tehran, Iran — Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Safhe-ye Nakhl (2014)
- Amiri (2012)
- Qatār-e Arvāh (2010)
- Magnapinna in the Abdomen of a Newborn (2012)
- U-Turn (2011)
Artwork: Caravaggio (c. 1600); The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (detail).
Instrumentation: violins, viola, cello, piano, and fixed media
Total duration: 56'
Release Date: 5 June 2023Location: Cambridge, UK
Total duration: 56'
Release Date: 5 June 2023Location: Cambridge, UK
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
Total duration: 55'
Date: 7 January 2015Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Oracle (2015)
- Solitude (2015)
- Sisyphus (2015)
- Annica (2015)
- Perception (2015)
- Madman (2015)
- Satire (2015)
- Existence (2015)
- Deprivation (2015)
- Magnetic (2015)
- Subjectivity (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.
Total duration: 6'
Date: July 2017Location: Queens, New York, USA.
Artwork: Sandro Botticelli (1483 - 1485); The Birth of Venus (detail).
for guitar
Duration: 7'
Date: 6 November 2007 — 8 November 2013Location: Tehran, Iran — Rutherford, New Jersey, USA
Date: 6 November 2007 — 8 November 2013Location: Tehran, Iran — Rutherford, New Jersey, USA
Artwork: Peter Paul Rubens (1611–1612); The Massacre of the Innocents (detail).
for chamber orchestra
Instrumentation: 1.1.1.1/1.1.1.1/perc./harp/piano/strings
Duration: 14'
Date: 30 December 2012Location: Tehran, Iran
Duration: 14'
Date: 30 December 2012Location: Tehran, Iran
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
Duration: 5' 20"
Date: 2020Location: Cambridge, UK
Artwork: Gerrit Dou (1650-1655); Astronomer (detail).
Duration: 12' 33"
Date: 19 June 2019Location: New York, New York, USA
Date: 19 June 2019Location: New York, New York, USA
Artwork: Caravaggio (1594 - 1596); Narcissus.
for orchestra
Duration: 5"
Date: 24 November 2013Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Date: 24 November 2013Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Artwork: Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1496); The Healing of the Possessed Man at the Rialto.
for string orchestra
Duration: 3' 32"
Date: September 2006Location: Tehran, Iran
Date: September 2006Location: Tehran, Iran
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