A portion of my new song cycle “Anjuman Songs” is being premiered at a wonderful event at the Ruskin Museum in Los Angeles, CA on Wednesday May 29th at 7:30 PM in conjunction with poet/translator Diana Arterian, who translated these works into English. The work commemorates the late Afghan poet Nadia Anjuman, and is simultaneously sung in Dari (an Afghan dialect of Farsi) and narrated in English. This project is so special to me, and I’m so excited to have a group of wonderful musicians performing this piece: Nandani Sinha, soprano; Rachel Garcia, narrator; Aaron Hill, English horn; Aurelien Eulert, piano