Shahrokh Yadegari, composer, sound designer, and producer, has collaborated with such artists as Peter Sellars, Robert Woodruff, Ann Hamilton, Christine Brewer, Gabor Tompa, Maya Beiser, Steven Schick, Lucie Tiberghien, Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam, Hossein Omoumi, and Siamak Shajarian. He has performed and his productions, compositions, and designs have been presented internationally in such venues as the Carnegie Hall, Royce Hall, Festival of Arts and Ideas, OFF-D’Avignon Festival, International Theatre Festival in Cluj Romania, Ravinia Festival, Ruhr-Triennale, Vienna Festival, Holland Festival, Tirgan Festival, Forum Barcelona, Japan America Theatre, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the Institut fur Neue Musik und Musikerziehung (Darmstadt), Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, and Contemporary Museum of Art, San Diego.
Yadegari holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, a Master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT’s Media Lab, and a Ph.D. in music from University of California, San Diego. He worked as a unix kernel programmer at such companies as Interactive Systems Corporation, Sun Microsystems, and ICL Inc. He has also worked at Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), and is one of the founders and the artistic director of Kereshmeh Records and Persian Arts Society, organizations dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of Persian traditional and new music. Yadegari is currently on the faculty of the department of Music at UC San Diego, and the director of the Sonic Arts Research and Development group and the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) at the Qualcomm Institute (UCSD’s branch of California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology).
Among his recent projects are adaptation, direction, and composition for Siavash: The Prince of Hope, a piece performed at the inaugurating season of the Aga Khan Museum in December of 2014; adaptation, direction, and composition for The Scarlet Stone, a piece based on ancient Persian mythology and related to the contemporary political climate of the Middle East, which had performances at the Tirgan Festival, and the Royce Hall in Los Angeles. The documentation of the Royce Hall performance of The Scarlet Stone was broadcast on BBC Persian in February and March of 2016. His most recent project is the workshop performance of Earthly Verses at the Pittsburgh New Music Festival in July 2016.
The Scarlet Stone movie documentation of the Royce Hall performance will be streamed for free for one month by Tirgan staring October 1st through November 30tt, 2021
