Short Biography
Negar Gharibi is an Iranian composer whose work explores texture, color, and the emotional traces left behind by lived experience. She draws on the rhythmic and timbral nuances of Iranian musical practice and experiments with acoustic, electronic, and electroacoustic media. Her music has been performed internationally, and she also performs as a piano and kamancheh player. She holds a B.A. in composition from the Tehran University of Art and is currently pursuing her M.M. at Penn State University.
Detailed Biography
Negar Gharibi is an Iranian composer whose work grows from close attention to texture, color, and the emotional traces left behind by lived experience. Her music is driven by an interest in translating inner sensory states into sound. She is currently exploring rhythmic and timbral aspects of Iranian musical practice—its micro-motions, pitch inflections, and layered rhythmic spaces—and investigating how these materials can be reimagined through the physical and coloristic possibilities of different instruments. Her pieces often begin with small gestures that she stretches, fractures, or rebuilds to form evolving sonic structures, shaped by the musical sensibility she grew up with and by the geographies that have shaped her.
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, and the Low Clarinet Festival.
Negar composes for instrumental, electronic, and electroacoustic media, working with layered textures, unstable timbres, and processes of gradual erosion and reconstruction. Although much of her work is written for acoustic instruments, she is actively expanding her practice in electronic and electroacoustic music. She also performs as a piano and as a kamancheh player. Also, She holds a B.A. in composition from the Tehran University of Art and is currently pursuing her M.M. at Penn State University.