soprano

Shadi Ebrahimi has appeared as Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème and Suzel in Mascagni's L'amico Fritz with Orient Heights Music, Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte with Longfellow Chamber Opera, as a soloist in Brahms's Requiem with Masterworks Choral, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Vaughan Williams's Dona nobis pacem with Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, Poulenc's Gloria and Handel's Messiah with Coro Polifonico, and Haydn's Missa in Angustiis (Nelson Mass) with the Longy Chamber Choir.

Shadi Ebrahimi has appeared as Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème and Suzel in Mascagni's L'amico Fritz with Orient Heights Music, Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte with Longfellow Chamber Opera, as a soloist in Brahms's Requiem with Masterworks Choral, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Vaughan Williams's Dona nobis pacem with Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, Poulenc's Gloria and Handel's Messiah with Coro Polifonico, and Haydn's Missa in Angustiis (Nelson Mass) with the Longy Chamber Choir.

She has performed new music by contemporary composers including John Howell Morrison, Paul Brust, Eva Kendrick, and Nikan Milani; she also premiered a song cycle by Gregory Wollenman. Ms. Ebrahimi, who holds B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Longy School of Music, and won third prize in the Annual Peter Elvins Vocal Competition in both 2007 and 2008. She was also a finalist in the 2008 Capital Region Opera Idol Vocal Competition. She is currently on the faculty at Allegro Music School, MJ's Music School, and Riverside Theatre Works.

Performances

Distler Performance Hall at Tufts University | September 25, 2009

News and Press

[Concert Review] The Barber songbook

Samuel Barber (near left, with his lover Gian Carlo Menotti) once described himself as “a living dead composer,” and indeed, for most his life his commitment to romantic feeling in the modern age consigned him to the dustbin of critical opinion. But history has a way of upending that dustbin, and Barber’s gift for lyrical simplicity, cemented in the popular mind by his Adagio for Strings, has enabled him to outlast his detractors.

The Hub Review Full review
[Concert Review] Florestan and BMOP join forces to celebrate American vocal repertoire

This evening’s double concert in the Distler Performance Hall of Tufts’ Granoff Music Center began a 3-day festival involving a partnership between the Florestan Recital Project and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project to highlight American vocal music. The former’s presentation was the 1st of 3 concerts which together would span the entire vocal opus of Samuel Barber, aptly titled, “BarberFest,” while the latter highlights contemporary compositions for vocalist(s) and chamber orchestra.

Classical Voice of New England Full review