Upcoming Events
Publication of the score of  Se-Chahar-Gah, my piece for microtonal adjustable guitar, by  Edition Zalzal, a new publisher dedicated to promoting microtonal music, September 1, 2021


Presentation: "Carla Henius's Phenomenology of the 'ingrate Business with Modern Music'",  2021 National Conference of the German Studies Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, September 30–October 2, 2021
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Presentation: "From Monophony to Meloharmony: How Harry Partch Influenced Manfred Stahnke," National Conference of the Society for Music Theory, Jacksonville, Florida, November 2–7 2021















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Recent Events 
​​New Job: In August 2021, I  joined the Music Department of Valparaiso University, as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Composition / Musicianship / Music History.

Presentation: "From Monophony to Melo-Harmony: How Harry Partch Influenced Manfred Stahnke," Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful Symposium,  International Ekmelic Music Society, Mozarteum Universität Salzburg, June 30–July 4, 2021


New Publication, co-authored with Laurent Estoppey - "Saxonality: Laurent Estoppey and Navid Bargrizan in Conversation," in Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful III (Salzburg: Mackinger-Verlag), June 2021

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Performance of New Composition: KannObalismus, for clarinet (bass and Bb) and fixed media, dedicated to Jonas Frolund, Modern Monday Concert Series, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 11, 2021
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Recording of my Kupferteich for solo viola, composed for and dedicated to Manfred Stahnke (2019), performed and recorded by Manfred Stahnke, Hamburg, Germany, December 2020


New Release: Lava Ilogica for fixed media, after Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in "Mind & Machine 3" (Ravello Records)


​Presentation: "Forty Years of Sociopolitical Protest:
Roger Waters’s Concept Albums as Manifesto against Indifference,"​ "Music and Resistance" conference, the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Complesso Monumentale di San Micheletto, Lucca, Italy, December 11-13, 2020 

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Presentation: "Corporeal Witchery and Criticism of the Contemporary Culture in Harry Partch's Postdramatic Dance Ritual The Bewitched," at the American Musicological Society 2020 Annual Meeting, Music and Dance Study Group, Minneapolis, November 5-8, 2020

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Presentation: "Corporeal Witchery and Criticism of the Contemporary Culture in Harry Partch's Postdramatic Dance Ritual The Bewitched," at the joint online meeting of the American Musicological Society Southwestern Chapter and Texas Music Library Association, September 24-26, 2020


New Composition: KannObalismus, for clarinet and fixed media, dedicated to Jonas Frolund, September 2020


Award: DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Short-Term Research Scholarship, to reside in Germany for 2 months (November 2020–January 2021) and conduct my research project for the composer monograph that I am writing
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Selected as finalist in the 2019-2020 edition of American Prize for Composition, Instrumental Chamber Music Division, for my solo microtonal guitar piece Se-Chahar-Gah

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Presentation: "Corporeal Witchery and Criticism of the Contemporary Culture in Harry Partch's Postdramatic Dance Ritual The Bewitched," at the 46th annual conference of the Society for American Music, Minneapolis, March 25-29, 2020

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Performance: Tuning Exercise Nr. 5, for violin and alto saxophone, Spicer Duo, Society of Composers Inc., Region VI, San Antonio, February 6-8, 2020


Presentation: "From Monophony to Meloharmony: How Harry Partch Influenced Manfred Stahnke," Society of Composers Inc., Region VI, San Antonio, February 6-8, 2020

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New  CD: Figments Vol. II: Solo and Chamber Ensemble Works (Navona Records). This CD wis also released on Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify, etc. It includes my 10 Aphorisms for saxophone duo (recorded by Stacks Duo) and Se-Chahar-Gah for microtonal adjustable guitar (recorded by Tolgahan Cogulu).
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Presentation: "Narrative and Mises-en-scène in Manfred Stahnke’s Postdramatic Theatrical Music," at fall 2019 American Musicological Society Southwestern Chapter Conference, Texas Christian University at Fort Worth, October 5, 2019

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New Composition: Kupferteich, for solo viola in just intonation, dedicated to Manfred Stahnke, July 2019

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Presentation: "Microtonal Pentatonic Scales as the Source for Pictures at the Micro-Exhibition," "Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful" symposium, Mozarteum University, Salzburg, June 28-30, 2019


​Performance of my "Pictures at the Micro-Exhibition" for solo saxophone,  by Laurent Estoppey, "Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful" symposium, Mozarteum University, Salzburg, June 28-30, 2019


New Publication: "Hybrid Meloharmonic Structures in Manfred Stahnke's Dramatic Works," in Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful - I (Salzburg: Mackinger-Verlag, 2019), 51-66.

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Performance of my "Tuning Exercise Nr. 2" for mixed ensemble, UF New Music Ensemble, University of Florida, April 15, 2019


COLLAPSS
Music by G. Scelsi, N. Bargrizan, M. Riesler, J. Cage
10 Aphorisms for Saxophone Duo and Pictures at the Micro-Exhibition by Navid Bargrizan
Emily Aiken, Brianna Taylor, dance
Steve Landis, double bass
Eric Schmidt, percussion
Steve Stusek, Laurent Estoppey, saxophone
April 7th 2019 at 6pm, Greensboro, North Carolina

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Performance of my "Pictures at the Micro-Exhibition" for solo saxophone,  by Laurent Estoppey; 10th Anniversary of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, University of Florida, April 5, 2019


Presentation: "Forty Years of Socio-Political Protest:
Roger Waters’s Concept Albums as Manifesto against Indifference," "Balancing the Mix" conference, University of Memphis, March 30, 2019


Performance: Tuning Exercise Nr. 5, for violin and alto saxophone
Marina Tucker, violin
Gerard Spicer, saxophone
Southern Saxophone Summit, University of Florida
February 23, 2019


​Presentation: "Forty Years of Socio-Political Protest: Roger Waters’s Concept Albums as Manifesto against Indifference," American Musicological Society, Southern Chapter Conference, North Florida University, February 22-23, 2019
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​Performance of my "Pictures at the Micro-Exhibition" for solo saxophone,  by Laurent Estoppey, Arts Now series, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, January 29, 2019


​Performance of my "Pictures at the Micro-Exhibition" for solo saxophone,  by Laurent Estoppey,  Pro musica series, Cameron Museum of Art, Wilmington, North Carolina, January 27, 2019


Engagement as Adjunct Lecturer of Languages, Literature, and Cultures at the University of Florida; teaching a German language course: "Beginning Intensive German 2"
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New Composition: Tuning Exercise Nr. 5, duo for violin and alto saxophone, dedicated to Marina Tucker and Gerard Spicer

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Performance of my Structure I for 10 instruments, UF New Music Ensemble, conductor: Diogo Carvalho, Gainesville, Florida, December 4, 2018

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Presentation: "Polymodality, Polyphony, and Microtonality in Hamidreza Dibazar's Persian Quartet," Joint conference of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory,  SMT Global New Music Research Interest Group, San Antonio, November 3, 2018


Performance of my "Pictures at the Micro-Exhibition" for solo saxophone, by Laurent Estoppey,  Stadtbibliothek, Lübeck, Germany, November 3, 2018
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Premiere of my solo saxophone piece, Pictures at the Micro-Exhibition, commissioned by the Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, by Laurent Estoppey, October 12, 2018

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Presentation: "Narrative and Mises-en-scène in Manfred Stahnke’s Postdramatic Theatrical Music," Conference of the German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, September 28, 2018


Performance of my solo violin Piece, Spintop, at Society of Composers Inc. National Conference, Indiana University, Amy Lidell, violin, September 29, 2018


New Composition: Pictures at the Micro-Exhibition, for solo saxophone, commissioned by the Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, and dedicated to Laurent Estoppey,


Presentation: "Forty Years of Socio-Political Protest:
Roger Waters’s Concept Albums as Manifesto against Indifference," isaScience 2018," Participatory Approaches to Music & Democracy,"  International Summer Academy of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Reichenau, Austria, August 11, 2018


Engagement as visiting assistant professor of music composition, as well as adjunct lecturer of general humanities, at the University of Florida, Fall 2018-spring 2019


Engagement as the composer-in-residence of the Harn Music of Art, Gainesville, Florida, summer 2018


Received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Music, with a concentration in Music History and Literature, and a cognate area in Music Composition, Theory and Technology, University of Florida, April 2018
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Performance of my Tuning Exercise Nr.1 for woodwind quintet, UF New Music Ensemble, University of Florida, Conductor: Diogo Caravalho, April 9, 2018


​Recording of my Duo for Flute and Piano (2014), by Emily Theobald, fl, and Anastasia Naplekova, pno, Society of Composers Inc. Chapter Concert,  University of Florida, March 22, 2018


​Presentation: "Harry Partch: A 'Visionary Prophet' or a 'Latter-day Don Quixote',"
The 2018 Conference of the Society for American Music, Kansas City, March 1, 2018


Presentation: "Narrative and Mises-en-scène in Manfred Stahnke’s Postdramatic Theatrical Music," American Musicological Society Southern Chapter, Louisiana State University, February 17, 2018


Performance of my Tuning Exercise Nr. 4 (2017), for Pierrot Ensemble, Bold City Contemporary Ensemble, 6th Florida Contemporary Music Festival, February 13, 2018

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Presentation: "Microtonality, Technology, and (Post)Dramatic Structures in the Theatrical Music of Harry Partch and Manfred Stahnke," University of Florida, Center for the Humanities and the Public Spheres, February 1, 2018


​New Composition: Tuning Exercise Nr. 4, for Pierrot Ensemble; to be performed during 2018 Florida Contemporary Music Festival, February 2018


Publication of my article "Parallel Trajectories in Manfred Stahnke's Internet Opera Orpheus Kristall," in the Canadian eContact!, Online Journal for Electroacoustic Practice


​Presentation: "Challenging the Single and Rigid Microtonal Configuration in the Contemporary Music,"  “Mikrotöne: Small is beautiful” Symposium 2017, International Ekmelic Music Society, Mozarteum University, Salzburg, June 30th - July 2nd , 2017


Presentation: "The Monkey is Amused to Death: Roger Water's Masterpiece and its Commercial Failure,"  in the 19th bi-annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, University of Kassel, Germany, June 26-30


Recording of my 10 Aphorisms for Saxophone Duo, by Stacks Duo: Laurent Estoppey and Steve Stusek


2 Performances of 10 Aphorisms for sax duo, by Stacks Duo,  in  3rd the Eastern Music Festival's Chamber Crawl, Greensboro, North Carolina, June 2017

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Publication of my Review of S. Andrew Granade's Harry Partch, Hobo Composer
Journal of the Society for American Music, Vol.11, No.2
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Presentation: "The Monkey is Amused to Death: Roger Water's Masterpiece and its Commercial Failure," Music in Action Conference, UCLA, April 27-29, 2017


Presentation: "Harry Partch: A 'Visionary Prophet' or a 'Latter-day Don Quixote',"
The joint meeting of the Northern California and Pacific Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,  April 29-30
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Premiere of Tuning Exercise Nr. 3, by Boston String Quartet, guest ensemble at the University of Florida, April 18, 2017
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Publication of my article "The Monkey is Amused to Death: Roger Water's Masterpiece and its Commercial Failure" by the Springer- Verlag, in the series Systematische Musikwissenschaft: Popular Music Studies Today


Performance of my Lava Ilogica, version for alto saxophone and electronics, by Gerard Spicer, at the North American Alliance Saxophone  Region VI Conference, Valdosta State University, March 10, 2017

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Performance of my Lava Ilogica, version for alto saxophone and electronics, by Gerard Spicer, at the Southeastern Saxophone Summit, University of Florida, February 25, 2017


Presentation: "Harry Partch: A 'Visionary Prophet' or a 'Latter-day Don Quixote',"
The Conference of the American Musicological Society Southern Chapter, University of Southern Mississippi,  February 17-18, 2017

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Received a 2017-2018 Tedder Family Fellowship for the Center for Humanities and Public Sphere at the University of Florida


​Recording of my piece Se-Chahar-Gah, for microtonal adjustable guitar, by Tolgahan Cogulu


Performance of my 10 Aphorisms for Saxophone Duo, at the SCI Region IV Student Conference, UNCG, January 25-26, 2017


Chosen as a finalist in the 2016 American Prize for Composition- Chamber Music Devision, for my woodwind quintet Tuning Exercise Nr. 1
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Publication of my Review of Kepler Quartet's CD of Ben Johnsotn's String Quartets 6, 7, & 8
Journal of the Society for American Music, Vol. 11, No. 1
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Conducting UF New Music Ensemble, in the performance of Schulamit Ran's Mirage, December 6, 2016

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New Composition: Tuning Exercise Nr. 3, for string quartet, to be performed by  Boston String Quartet, during Florida 4th Contemporary Music Festival, April 2017


New Composition: Compulsive Regressive: A Symphonic Self-reflection, for Basel Composition Competition 2017


New Composition: From Lou to Harry: A Salute to Harry Partch, for violin, viola, and alto voice, for Boston Microtonal Society's 2016 Call for Score


Presentation: "Microtonality, Technology, and Dramatic Narrative in Manfred Stahnke's Operas"
Toronto International Electroacoustic Music Symposium 2016, August 10-13, 2016


Performance of Lava Ilogica, for 16-channel fixed media
Toronto International Electroacoustic Music Symposium 2016, August 10-13, 2016
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New composition: (Ir)rationalismus?, a piece for de-tuned symphony orchestra, composed in the occasion of Leibniz Composition Competition in Hannover, Germany.
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Performance of Lava Ilogica, for 16-channel fixed media
New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival 2016
June 15, 2016

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Archival research at Harry Partch Estate Archive at University of Illinois, Harry Partch Collection at University of California in San Diego; and at Ben Johnston Archive at Northwestern University, 
​May 17 - June 12, 2016

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Received a 2016 Summer Doctoral Research Award by University of Florida, Graduate School, May 5, 2016

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Performance of Spintop for solo violin,
Performer: Marina Tucker
SCI - chapter student concert, University of Florida
​April 10, 2016


Performance of Ilogicus, for alto saxophone and electronics
Performer: Gerard spicer
Gerard Spicer's Graduate Recital
​April 2, 2016
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Publication of “Technology, Microtones, and Mediation in Manfred Stahnke’s Orpheus Kristall,”  in  Müzik-Bilim Dergisi, The Journal of Musicology
Spring 2015 Issue


Performance of Gérard Grisey's Périodes and Luke Dahn's Penumbrae, conductor: Navid Bargrizan
UF New Music Ensemble, University of Florida
March 17, 2016


Presentation: "Mozart's Don Giovanni as a Prototype for German Romantic Tragedy"
2016 Conference of the American Musicological Society Southern Chapter, Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, Florida
19-20 February, 2016


​Performance of Lava Ilogica for 8-channel fixed media
Unbalanced Connection 57 semi-annual electroacoustic concerts,  University of Florida, Gainesville
​ February 19,  2016


Performance of 10 Aphorism for Saxophone Duo
STACKS : Steve Stusek, Laurent Estoppey, saxophone
Empire Books Bookstore
Spring Garden St. 1827B, Greensboro, NC
20 November,  2015


Presentation: "Mozart's Don Giovanni as a Prototype for German Romantic Tragedy"
The 39th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association,  Washington D.C.
1 - 4 October, 2015
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