Events

• Lara Downes’ ‘Love at Last’ nominated for the Best Classical Record at the 2024 A2IM Libera Awards [Link here]. 
• “Lenji” a new commission by SHHH!! Ensemble, for marimba and piano (2024).
• Piano and Composition Performance Instructor at Carleton University [Link here].
• “Dreamland” for string quartet, Tar, and female vocalist, commissioned by Stephen Prutsman, featuring Elham Manoochehri and Dior Quartet, Phenotypic Recordings (2024).
• “Golnava” Cello Concerto no. 3 (2023-2024) written for, and featuring cellist Raphael Weinroth-Browne (cello, strings, and Persian ensemble).
• 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].
• Duo performance at Mandala Spotlight as part of IBPOC Art Celebration, Ottawa Arts Council [More here].
• Concert with Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra at festival Music and Beyond, July 8th, 12pm, Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre [Listen here].
• All of You at la Salle Bourgie, Musée des Beaux-Arts Montréal, a tribute to Iranian female composers [Click Here].
• Khayam joins Gryphon Trio in its new ‘’Listen Up!’’ project, Pierre Elliot Trudeau Elementary School, July 2023.
• Beethoven Symphony no 5 (arranged for strings by Jean-François Rivest) and Adagietto from Mahler Symphony no 5 in la Salle Claude Champagne, Montreal, performing musicians from I Musici Strings and OSM, June 6, 2023.
• San Francisco Philharmonic conducting workshop with Maestro Donald Schleicher, July 10-15, 2023.
• Artist in residence at Carleton University, interview (Read More).
• Intercultural Ensemble directed by Hooshyar Khayam Carleton University Artist in Residence, at Carleton-Dominion Chalmers Centre, April 3, 2023 (watch the complete concert Here).
• Carleton University Masterclass Series Winter 2023, watch here: (link).
• OICRM, Boursières et boursiers (2021-2022) (link).
• OICRM Doctoral Scholarship Recipient (2021) Université de Montréal (link).
• “Chār” from the album Raaz (2020) Songlines Best Album of the Year (Five Stars) (Watch Here).
• “RAAZ” (30M Records, 2020), Best Album of the Year 2020 (5-stars), Songlines (link).
• Lara Downes plays “Bright Night” by Hooshyar Khayam [Click Here].
• project “RAAZ”, composition based on music of Baluchestan [Click Here].
• “God of Rakhsh” Selected for Audience Awards [Click Here] and Cefalù Film Festival (2019).
• April 16, 2019 “Monir” performed in Schubert Club, SPCO Soloists, Stephen Prutsman production, Minnesota [Click Here].
• February 18, 2019 “Tehran Bach” solo recital, Fajr Music Festival [Click Here]
• February 9, 2019 “The Other Side” (12th movement, string orchestra version) premiered by Moscow Virtuosi Strings, Evgeny Bushkov, Kremlin Palace Hall, Moscow [Click Here]
• February 1, 2019 Album released : “The Other Side” (music for string quartet in 13 movements) performed by Sheherezad Quartet, Barana Art Center and Mystic World Music [Click Here]
• “Music for Tar and Piano” selected “Best Classical Album of the Year 2018” MUSICEMA Festival, Tehran. [Click Here]
• Cael Music for strings (SPRC Concert Series) Roudaki Hall, Tehran 15 March 2018
• Die Andere Seite Festival 4020 “Traumstadt” 03 – 06 May 2017, Linz
• Anja Lechner performs and speaks of Garden II, 04 May 2017 Munich Public Radio
• Stephen Prutsman plays Ravi-e Khyal on Steinway Hall concert, 2015
• Anja Lechner and Hooshyar Khayam perform Garden I, Niavaran Hall, Tehran, 2016
• Kalileh Ballet in two acts, premiered by LSCO, Duluth Minnesota, 2016
• Eva Schonweiss and Kirsten Ecke perform Die Feen von Neukölln, 2016
• Alexandria Pykaj performs Cello Concerto no 1, Nipper Orchestra, directed by Navid Gohari, 2015
• Anja Lechner and Artur Avanessov perform Garden I, Niavaran Hall, Tehran, 2015
• Elina Bertina performs Bahar Street in Riga Latvia, 2015
• Kronos Quartet records Monir in Women’s Audio Mission, San Francisco, CA, April 9, 2013
• Stephen Prutsman performs Ravi-e Khyal on White-Light Festival, Rose Hall, Lincoln Center, 2012
• Stephen Prutsman and Todd Palmer perform Clarinet Rhapsody Spoleto Festival, South Carolina, 2012
• Isabel Villanueva and Golfam Khayam performed “Garden” (for viola and guitar) by Hooshyar Khayam,August 2013 Roudaki Tehran
• Solo recital Sea’s Seven Days, Khachaturian Hall, Yerevan May 2011
• Lecture Recital (with Amir Eslami) School of Advanced Study, Institute of Music Research, University of London, November 2010
• Retrospective concert, sponsored by Naregatsi Institute of Contemporary Music, March 2010, Yerevan. (World Premiere of the Cello Concerto no 1, soloist Aram Talalyan)
• Soloist of “Winter Concert” Collection of Contemporary Iranian Music, Works by Mohammad-Reza Darvishi, Hossein Alizadeh, and Hooshyar Khayam. Ukrain National Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Sirenko, Grand Keshvar Hall, Tehran, 26th – 27th December 2008
• Piano Recital, Music by Hooshyar Khayam, sponsored by Hermes Records, Niavaran Hall, September 2008