contact info
karim@alzand.com
Rice University
Shepherd School of Music
MS 532
6100 Main St.
Houston TX 77005-1892
(713) 348-3740
www.alzand.com
upcoming events
January 7, 7:30pm
Free of the Ground
Musiqa
Tagore Love Songs
Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center
Houston, TX
news
Awarded “Arts and Letters Award in Music” from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
CD RELEASE The Fogg Project on Albany Records. more info
The music of Canadian-American composer Karim Al-Zand (b.1970) has been called “strong and startlingly lovely” (Boston Globe).
His compositions are wide-ranging, from settings of classical Arabic poetry to scores for dance and pieces for young audiences.
His works explore connections between music and other arts, and draw inspiration from diverse sources such as 19th century graphic art, fables of the world, folksong and jazz.
The themes of many of his pieces speak to his middle-eastern heritage as well.
Al-Zand’s music has enjoyed success in the US, Canada and abroad and he is the recipient of several national awards, including the Sackler Composition Prize, the ArtSong Prize, the Louisville Orchestra Competition Prize and the “Arts and Letters Award in Music” from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
He holds degrees from Harvard and McGill Universities and is currently on the faculty of the Shepherd School of Music (Rice University) in Houston.
Al-Zand is also a founding member of Musiqa, Houston’s premiere contemporary music group, which presents concerts featuring new and classic repertoire of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Tagoriana
songs on poetry of Rabindranath TagoreAidan Soder, mezzo soprano
Paul Busselberg, baritone
Calogero Di Liberto, piano
music of Alfano, Bridge, Carpemter, Szymanowksi
and featuring Tagore Love Songs
map and directions here
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All scores are available from www.lulu.com and amazon.com
Parts, perusal scores and recordings are available directly from the composer.
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