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Idin Samimi Mofakham: Nafir

Saturday, 27 September 2025   |   19:30 - 22:30
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Idin Samimi Mofakham: Nafir

Nafir, concerto for double bass quartet, symphonic orchestra, and fixed media by Idin Samimi Mofakham will be performed at the Closing Concert of the 68th Warszawska Jesień / Warsaw Autumn on September 27th at the National Philharmonic, Warsaw. Composed between 2022–2024, Nafir reimagines the Persian word for cries of anguish and collective mourning as a sonic outcry against injustice, oppression, and war. Blending orchestra, contrabass quartet, and field recordings from the Iranian protests and the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, the piece carries voices of resistance and remembrance into the concert hall.

Program:

Sara Glojnarić DING, DONG, DARLING!
Ewa Trębacz Lament for Ur. Assemblages from the city that is no more
Zosha Di Castri Hunger
Kuba Krzewiński Intervention #5
Idin Samimi Mofakham Nafir
Wojtek Blecharz Field 9. Evanescence

  • Composer(s) Idin Samimi Mofakham
  • Title(s) of the Work(s)

    Nafir
    (Concerto for double bass quartet, symphonic orchestra and fixed media)
  • Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Oscar Jockel conductor, Janusz Długokęcki, Karol Kowal, Jakub Langiewicz, Maciej Dobrzański contrabasses, Idin Samimi Mofakham electronics
Date
Sep 27 2025
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Time
19:30 - 22:30
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Location
Warsaw, Philharmonics, Poland
Warsaw, Philharmonics, Poland
Jasna 5, 00-950 Warsaw, Poland
Website https://filharmonia.pl/en/

The music of Iranian composer/performer Idin Samimi Mofakham (b. 1982) is deeply rooted in the traditional and regional music of his home country. Since 2015, he has been developing his own musical language based on non-Western tuning systems, just intonation and psychoacoustics. In 2023 he received his PhD from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo with a research thesis on medieval tuning systems from Iran and their creative use in contemporary composition.

Since 2013, Idin has been the co-founder and artistic manager of Spectro Centre for New Music. Between 2015 and 2019, he was a board member and senior curator of the Tehran Contemporary Music Festival, the only international festival focusing on contemporary and experimental music in Iran. He plays in the experimental band Spectro Duo, which he founded with his wife, composer Martyna Kosecka. Their musical focus is on drone, noise, beat phenomena, glitch, field recording transformation, microtonality and oriental modalities.

Idin’s music has been performed or recorded by ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, S.E.M Ensemble, Hermes Ensemble, Omnibus Ensemble, Moto Perpetuo, AuditivVokal Dresden, Momenta Quartet, IAMA Trio, Ostravská Banda, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Xelmya Trio, Oslo Sinfonietta, Abbyss Quartet and, in Iran, most notably by Nivak Ensemble and Nilper Orchestra.

The music of Iranian composer/performer Idin Samimi Mofakham (b.
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