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.”