A m i r   K h o s r o w p o u r
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The performer.  Maybe it’s because he’s a Libra, but Amir Khosrowpour believes in presenting programs that are balanced with new works and old works, siding neither with only the avant-garde or only the “dead white guys.” He has performed across the U.S., in China and Italy, and most recently in a month-long exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In the City, Khosrowpour has worked with composers and performers in many new-music groups, including Red Light New Music, Ensemble Pamplemousse, JACK Quartet, and TRANSIT. He’s won numerous competitions, including the national title from the Music Teachers National Association, earning a Steinway grand piano as a prize.  
    
The composer.   Khosrowpour is a company member of The Actors Company Theatre, having written music for their highly successful Off-Broadway production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Bedroom Farce,and for several of their Salon Series productions.  He is working  with playwrights Jonathan Goldberg and Edith Freni on 2 musicals (one has zombies in it), and has collaborated with  NYC dance choreographers Kathryn Wilkening, Susan Cherniak, Caron Eule, and Nicoll+Oreck on dance concerts for the 2010-11 season.  There is also his duo, Corky Has a Band, which focuses on the surreal and ridiculous.  In 2009, they presented a concert based on the popular (and fun) drinking game, PowerHour.  
    
The Instructor.  Khosrowpour has developed programs for students in an advanced video-conferencing program, called Distance-Learning, at Manhattan School of Music.  He has presented to students in New York State, Indiana, Florida, and even Norway, and has given professional development to teachers in Pennsylvania.  He has also been a factuly member at the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts Camp, the oldest arts camp in the country, and at the Manhattan School of Music Summer Camp.

The Student.  Khosrowpour graduated with Distinction from the University of Kansas, earning a B.M. in Piano and Composition.  Having completed the Masters of Music at Manhattan School of Music, he is now working on his Doctorate.  He is most thankful for his mentors, Scott McBride Smith, Jack Winerock, and Phillip Kawin. 

The Swell Guy.  He lives in the Bronx with his Steinway, his fat cat, and the other half of Corky, pianist David Broome. Still practicing, still writing, still thinking up crazy stuff.  

 

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