NAVID BARGRIZAN | MUSICOLOGIST. COMPOSER. CONDUCTOR.
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Upcoming Events
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


Performance of my "Tuning Exercise Nr. 2" for mixed ensemble, UF New Music Ensemble, University of Florida, March 25


​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 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


​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














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Recent Events 
​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


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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


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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


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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',"
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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
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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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