Upcoming Events Upcoming CD: Figments Vol. II: Solo and Chamber Ensemble Works (Navona Records). This CD will be 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).
New Composition: Kupferteich, for solo viola in just intonation, dedicated to Manfred Stahnke, July 2019
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: Makinger-Verlag, 2019), 51-66.
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
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
Engagement as Adjunct Lecturer of Languages, Literature, and Cultures at the University of Florida; teaching a German language course: "Beginning Intensive German 2"
New Composition: Tuning Exercise Nr. 5, duo for violin and alto saxophone, dedicated to Marina Tucker and Gerard Spicer
Performance of my Structure I for 10 instruments, UF New Music Ensemble, conductor: Diogo Carvalho, Gainesville, Florida, December 4, 2018
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
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
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
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
Publication of my Review of S. Andrew Granade's Harry Partch, Hobo Composer Journal of the Society for American Music, Vol.11, No.2 Presentation: "The Monkey is Amused to Death: Roger Water's Masterpiece and its Commercial Failure," Music in Action Conference, UCLA, April 27-29, 2017
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
Conducting UF New Music Ensemble, in the performance of Schulamit Ran's Mirage, December 6, 2016
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
New composition: (Ir)rationalismus?, a piece for de-tuned symphony orchestra, composed in the occasion of Leibniz Composition Competition in Hannover, Germany.
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
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
