Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei

Daniel Sabzghabaei (سبزقبایی رضا دانیال) (b. 1992) is a creator who aims to emphasize the  malleability of time and how we experience it, not just in the concert hall but in everyday life as well. His work has been presented and commissioned by organizations including: the JACK  Quartet, the International Contemporary Ensemble, the New York Youth Symphony, National  Sawdust, Intimacy of Creativity Festival, TAK Ensemble, Beth Morrison Projects, the New York  Festival of Song, loadbang, bassist Robert Black, the Banff Centre, Contemporaneous, Guerilla  Opera, the Moab Music Festival, [Switch~] Ensemble, the Young New Yorkers Chorus, Pro Coro Canada, The Esoterics, OPERA America, and VocalEssence among others. Daniel is a  doctoral candidate at Cornell where his current research focuses on Persian choral music. Outside of music and sound-based projects, Daniel also translates Persian poetry, most recently exploring the works of Hafez, Rumi, and Saadi.