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May 17, 11:00am, 2:00pm
Zilkha Hall, Houston TX
Around the World with Musiqa
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Al-Zand awarded Rice University’s Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize

City Scenes awarded special distinction in ASCAP’s Rudolph Nissim Prize

The Sky With All Its Stars released on new CD from Capstone Records

The music of Canadian-American composer Karim Al-Zand (b. 1970) has been called “strong and startlingly lovely” (Boston Globe). He is currently an Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. His music has been widely performed and praised in the US, Canada and abroad. His pieces have garnered several national awards and prizes including the prestigious Sackler Composition Prize, the ArtSong Prize and the Louisville Orchestra Competition Prize. Al-Zand is also a founding member and vice-president of Musiqa, Houston’s contemporary music group, which presents concerts featuring new and classic repertoire of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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karim@alzand.com
Rice University
Shepherd School of Music
MS 532
6100 Main St.
Houston TX 77005-1892
(713) 348-3740
www.alzand.com

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