Latest Events and News

• “Beneath the Sky”
  Music by
  Olivier Messiaen
  Mina Arissian
  Hooshyar Khayam
  Featured artists:
  Bahar Harandi, soprano
  Saba Yousefi, violin
  Jean Terron Hall, Carleton-Dominion Chalmers Center, December 7th, 2 PM

• “Rôya”
  Based on Rubaiyat Omar Khayyam
  Thalea Quartet
  Saina Alikhani, soprano
  Katherine Dowling, piano
  Phenotypic Recording LLC
  Stephen Prutsman, artistic director
  December 10-12, Toronto
• Thirteen Strings Orchestra will perform “50th Anniversary Fanfare for Strings” by Hooshyar Khayam along with music by Arcangello Corelli, Johann Sebastian Bach, Derek Holman, and George Frideric Handel. Sunday December 14th, 2025 at 7:30 PM, St. Matthew’s Church in the Glebe, Ottawa [Link here].
• Thalea String Quartet in collaboration with Prairie Debut will perform a world premiere by Hooshyar Khayam for the Amati Concert Series. Sunday November 16, 3:00 PM at Convocation Hall, University of Saskatchewan [Link here].

• “Symphonie des Dômes”
  Quatour Andara
  Elham Manouchehri
  Amir Amiri
  Patrick Giguère
  Hooshyar Khayam
  Salle Sanaaq, Montreal- World premiere, October 29, 2025
• Horizons: New and Traditional Iranian Music 
  Canadian Golha Orchestra
  Friday, November 7, Trinity St. Paul’s Centre, Toronto [EventBrite Link]
• Muriel Razavi (Viola), Marlene Heiß (Piano) will play movements from CAEL at the Zeitgenuss Festival in Karlsruhe on the 22nd of October 2025.
• “Stained Glass” for piano and string orchestra. Peter Swanson (Conductor), Benedictine College Catchfire Collective, May 2025.
• Saina Alikhani, Soprano; Owen Mok, piano: Rubaiyat by Hooshyar Khayam. April 19th, 2025, 6:00 PM, Redpath Hall, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
• Sunday April 13th at 3 pm: Jesse Stewart, Reza Yazdanpanah, and Hooshyar Khayam concert at Carol Wiebe’s.
• Intercultural Improvisation with Jesse Stewart and Reza Yazdanpanah: Sunday January 12 at 7 pm at Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre.
• Lara Downes’ ‘Love at Last’ nominated for the Best Classical Record at the 2024 A2IM Libera Awards [Link here].
• Piano and Composition Performance Instructor at Carleton University [Link here].
• Visiting lecturer at University of Ottawa: Modal Improvisation and figuration technique on the keyboard, Friday February 2nd, 2024.
• From retrospective concert with the Thirteen Strings at Music & Beyond Festival, July 2023 at CDCC, Ottawa [Watch here].