FORWARD MUSIC PROJECT 2.0 | "VEILED" BY NILOUFAR NOURBAKHSH FEATURED IN NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW
Review: Iranian Female Composers Speak Indirectly to the Moment
By Seth Colter Walls
Oct. 16, 2022
From its founding in 2017, the Iranian Female Composers Association has found itself frequently tied to the news of the day.
Niloufar Nourbakhsh, a composer and one of the association’s founders, wrote in liner notes for a recording of “Veiled,” her lyrical yet aggrieved 2019 work for the cellist Amanda Gookin, that, “personally as an Iranian woman, I carry a lot of anger with me.”