Farzia Fallah

Fallah studied Electronics and Signal Processing at the Sharif University of Technology from 1998-2003, while simultaneously studying with Alireza Mashayekhi and Farimah Ghavamsadri.

From 2007-2014 Fallah studied composition at the University of the Arts Bremen, first with Younghi Pagh-Paan and later with Jörg Birkenkötter. She also studied electroacoustic composition with Kilian Schwoon and Joachim Heinz. From 2014-2016 she studied at the University of Music and Dance Cologne, taking composition lessons with Johannes Schöllhorn.[1]

Her 2016 work, in sechs Richtungen for accordion and tape, features the tanbur playing of Mehdi Jalali.[2] The piece is based on a poem by Mawlana Rumi, in which he searches for his home "in six directions", and not only from a certain place. The tambur is abstracted on the tape part, and attempts a unity of the two instruments despite the different means of sound production. The piece was written for Margit Kern, but has also been performed by Eva Zöllner.[3]

In 2017, she wrote tänzerisch an der Kante, which was written for Ensemble Musikfabrik and her 2015 work for solo alto flute, Posht-e Hichestan, has been performed by the ensemble's flautist, Helen Bledsoe.[4]

In 2017, her work was performed at the launch concert of the Iranian Female Composers Association, founded by Niloufar Nourbakhsh.[5] In the same year, she was also commissioned to write a work for accordion and shawm, for Duo Mixtura (Katharina Bäuml and Margit Kern), which received its premiere at the Acht Brücken Festival.[6]