Daniel and his collaborative team, Mina Salehpour and Yashar Saghai, have been awarded a major award from OPERA America to support their new monodrama The Veil. OPERA America’s new IDEA Opera Grants (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access) support works by under-represented voices in American opera.
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As an inaugural Emergence Fellow, I be will collaborating this year with Boston’s Guerilla Opera on a new operatic work with Berlin-based director and librettist Mina Salehpour. The new work, called “The Angle of Darkness (زاویه ی ظلی), will reflect on an anecdote from an anonymous Persian woman part of prominent women’s protest movement in Iran.
Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 7:30pm
Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis University
415 South St, Waltham, MA 02453

This season I will be collaborating with the Eurasia Festival on concerts in:
Chicago, New York City and Washington D.C., as one of four emerging artists.

Performed by Ayano Ninomiya 

Premiered by Rebekah Heller, Joshua Rubin, and Lizzie Burns at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, supported by an award from the Cornell Council for the Arts 2018 Biennial.