About the Music

Hope in Threads for bass clarinet and string quartet was written for the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance (LAMP) Festival in music composition which took place in June 2023, with bass clarinetist Sarah Watts on the faculty. We thank the composer for sharing this program note about the work:

HOPE: In Threads gives the listener a feeling of the darkness that has unraveled in Iran. Since September 2022, the Iranian government has gone on a rampage, murdering the country's prodigious minds and causing a sizeable decline in protests, culture, and religion. As an Iranian who participated in the protests alongside tens of thousands of others, I was struck with these waves of emotion as I realized the immense passion, rage, and hope in all Iranian people at this time.

I. The Revolt signifies the rebellion against the government. II. Descent is a lament for Iranian people who have died trying to fight for a better government. Ill. Tainted Beginnings concludes the piece by presenting the possibility of a new tainted future.

Scroll through the images to read the review of the transcription in the December 2024 issue of The Clarinet!

Extended-range instrument required for bass clarinet part. Score: 28 pages; Parts: 8 pages each.

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About the Composer

From composing the soundtrack for an Amazon Prime series to receiving commissions from the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Danial Sheibani - an Iranian-Canadian composer and conductor – has written for film, TV, theatre, dance, and visual art, working with University of Toronto Opera, the Verona Quartet, Standing Wave Ensemble, and many more. He is the recipient of the SOCAN 2023 Young Composers Award, NYO Emerging Composer Mentorship Program, the Ontario Remembrance Scholarship, the Arthur Plettner Scholarship, the Lloyd Bradshaw Prize, and the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship as part of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival – Yale School of Music’s New

Music Workshop. His works explore themes regarding the imperfections of the human psyche. Working with evocative soundscapes that create trance-like atmospheres and question the listener’s perception of time. With every work, he writes to induce memories from the lives of his listeners and introduce them to new worlds of sensation, thought, and feeling. As of 2024, he is pursuing the third year of undergraduate studies at The University of Toronto with his primary teachers being Richard Danielpour, David Serkin Ludwig, and Christos Hatzis. His past teachers include Gary Kulesha, James Rolfe, and Larysa Kuzmenko. Selected works have been published by Sonaria and the Modern Sound Collective. Outside of his composing work, he is also the co-founder, principal conductor, and director of finance for the Blank Canvas Sound Collective which he started with his peers at the University of Toronto. He also teaches piano, voice, and theory at the Greater Toronto Music School, and in his private studio.