Negar Gharibi is a composer from Tehran, Iran, currently based in Ithaca, New York. Her music explores timbre, texture, and resonance through acoustic and electronic media, seeking ways in which the behavior of sound can embody ideas drawn from close attention to musical phenomena, memory, and lived experience, allowing traces of those ideas to remain embedded in the work while leaving space for imagination.
Her music has been performed internationally by ensembles and artists including the Mivos String Quartet, Ensemble Mêtis (Martyna Kosecka & Mario Caroli), the Penn State Percussion Ensemble, Dr. Anthony J. Costa, and Drew Joseph Hosler. Her work has appeared at festivals such as Horizon Etendu Music Academy, the Nice International Music Academy, Sounds of Now Vienna, the Low Clarinet Festival and SPLICE Institute 2026.
She holds a B.A. in composition from the Tehran University of Art and an M.M. at Penn State University, where she studied with Baljinder Sekhon and Paul Coleman. She is currently pursuing a D.M.A. in Composition at Cornell University.