Seare Ahmad Farhat

composer

Featured Works

Large Ensemble (8+ players)

between dusk and darkness (2025)
for orchestra
THE BEAUTY OF THE TREES (2024)
baritone + sinfonietta
MAUJEM (2022) sinfonietta+live electronics
RAFTUM AZIN BAGH(2019) tenor+ensemble
SYSTOLE (2018) string octet

Small Ensemble (3-7 players)

love, as it comes and goes (2024)
harmonium trio
aporias (2023)
string quartet
bring me your silence (2023)
soprano, bass flute, bass clarinet, violin, live electronics
Muzzahaimat (2023)
violin, cello, clarinet, and piano
Scenes from the    Chalivali (2023)   baritone, bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone 
...ka spoojmai shwa poh hala ke… (2022)
string quartet
from half-light fell (2019)
string quartet
…kheystar az darya wa nafas… (2022) for alto flute, harp, and percussion
arrival (2021/arr. 22)
for sextet
reckless through despair (2021)
wind quintet
not it, but itself (2019)
for Front Porch

Solo/Duo/Electronic

رو به رو به رادیو (2023) live electronics installation
PHYSICAL PRESENTS (2023) dance, improvisation, live scoring, and wearable instruments
SONATA (2020) solo violin
on ice (for NOMON) (2022)
percussion duo, 5.1 fixed video and audio
JINN||ROOH (2021)
for solo snare drum, robotics, and live electronics
lalo (2023)
for cello and piano

full list of works

2024

  • love, as it comes and goes, for harmonium trio — Longleash Ensemble
  • The Beauty of the Trees, for baritone and sinfonietta — J. B. Cerin and the Fesival Chamber Orchestra at Cornell University

2023

  • APORIAS, in the form of three tappai – for JACK Quartet
  • bring me your silence — for TAK Ensemble
  • shadowed metals (for solo vibraphone) and grooves in the wood (for solo marimba) – for Michael Giunta, percussionist
  • Ballada (after Gabriela Mistral) – for Dawn Upshaw and Xak Bjerken (soprano and piano)
  • Scenes from the Chalivali – for loadbang (baritone, trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet)
  • Muzzahaimat – for the Music from Copland House Ensemble (violin, cello, clarinet, piano)
  • Green Fields (after Victoria Chang) – for Glass Clouds Ensemble (soprano and two violins)
  • Lalo – for the Bardin-Niskala Duo (cello/piano)

2022

  • on ice for Nomon – 2 percussion and fixed video in 5.1 audio
  • …kheystar az nafas wa darya… for Nathalie Joachim, Haruka Fujii, and Charles Overton through GLFCAM (alto flute, percussion, harp)
  • ka spoojmai shwa poh hala ke for Vaughan String Quartet in the Banff Evolution: String Quartet residency
  • Maujem for the IU New Music Ensemble – sinfonietta and live electronics
  • Arrival (2021, arr. 2022) – for piccolo, clarinet, piano, percussion, vln., vcl.
  • Volte-Face – for triple-winds orchestra 
  • Zangha-e Khurshid – solo voice and quad spatialized live electronics

2021

  • Reckless Through Despair for Quintessence Wind Quintet
  • Jinn//Rooh for Nate Hurst – for solo snare drum, live electronics and robotics
  • Arrival for Duo Octavian – piano duo
  • Dream Canticles for Angela Leeper – solo bass and live electronics

2020

  • Spem in Alium for the Metropolitan Youth Symphony in Portland – scored for three antiphonal string orchestrals (quintets at minimum)
  • Sonata for Solo Violin for Asher Wulfman
  • From Half-Light Fell for FLUX Quartet
  • All the Bells were Ringing… – live video and electronics with two improvisers over internet

2019

  • Raftum az in Baagh – tenor and ensemble written for the Cortona New Music Sessions
  • Body Counterpoint – Mezzo-soprano and Alto Flute
  • Chishm-e man Gasht for Oberlin Sinfonietta – for winds, brass, and three double basses with fixed video
  • Not it, but itself for Front Porch Ensemble supported through the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings – mixed quartet (violin, bassoon, percussion, piano)

2018

  • Systole for Oberlin Sinfonietta – String Octet
  • Collectanea – Piano Trio
  • Convex/Concave – Baroque Violin, Baroque Flute, Viola da Gamba