Amir Hoshang Farsi, flutist

“...Farsi in particular played with a beautiful sound and a personal sense of expression, if not an idiomatic sense of style.”

—George Grella, New York Classical Review

Biography

Iranian and Pakistani American flutist Amir Hoshang Farsi’s playing has been described as “virtuosic and birdlike” (I Care if You Listen) and having a “beautiful sound and personal sense of expression” (New York Classical Review).

Amir has made appearances at notable halls and music festivals across the United States and Canada, including Carnegie Hall, the Banff Centre, MASS MoCA, the Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center, the New World Center, Music@Menlo and Norfolk Chamber Music Festivals, the Bang on a Can Festival, the St. Lawrence String Quartet Chamber Music Seminar, the Annapolis and Lake George Music Festivals, the UN Chamber Music Society, and the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival.

Currently a Fellow with Carnegie Hall’s prestigious Ensemble Connect program (2020-2023), Amir has collaborated with leading artists such as tenor Nicholas Phan, soprano Meigui Zhang, violinists Arnaud Sussmann and Jennifer Frautschi, cellist Inbal Segev, oboist Steven Taylor, harpist Parker Ramsay, bassist Scott Pingel, pianist Mika Sasaki, and horn player William Purvis. Other projects have included composers Julia Wolfe, Luca Francesconi, Reena Esmail, Kaija Saariaho, Robert Honstein, visual-artist Kevork Mourad, and multidisciplinary duo The Afield. Future collaborations include premiering a work by violinist and composer Michi Wiancko, performing with flutist Claire Chase, upcoming projects with cellist Mike Block and tabla-player Sandeep Das, and multidisciplinary ensemble Running AMOC.

As an orchestral musician he has performed under prolific conductors such as Marin Alsop, David Robertson, Peter Oundjian, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Leon Fleisher, Brad Lubman, and Ignat Solzhenitsyn. Amir has performed in the New Haven Symphony, Princeton Symphony, Orpheus, and Ensemble Signal. He received a bachelor’s degree from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University under the tutelage of Marina Piccinini and a master’s degree from the Yale School of Music, where he studied with Ransom Wilson.

For more information, please visit amirfarsi.com.

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