Kelariz Keshavarz

Praised for her "sheer virtuosity" by Fanfare Magazine, Dr. Kelariz Keshavarz is an award-winning international flutist, active in classical and contemporary spheres, and an avid sound artist, improviser, and pedagogue. She is an active flutist of new music by living Iranian composers and has commissioned more than fifty new compositions. She has collaborated with visual artists, movie directors, sound artists, and choreographers and toured internationally. The "Iranian New Waves" project, "Minimpronics", and "Petrichor Records Young Iranian Composers" projects are three of his recently released albums under Petrichor Records. She has performed internationally as principal and guest principal flute with Tehran Symphony, Tehran National Orchestra, Tehran Philharmonic, Parsian Orchestra, Nilper Orchestra, Camerata Orchestra, SouthSide Philharmonic Orchestra with Patrick Clark, and on the Odyssey Chamber Series under the baton of Kirk Trevor. Kelariz Keshavarz has served as a lecturer at Tehran University of Art, onboard the Iran Flute Society and the Tehran Flute Choir. Enthusiastic about contemporary flute pedagogy, she has toured with her workshop seminars on Flute Contemporary Extended Techniques. Keshavarz holds a Doctorate in Musical Arts in Flute Performance from the University of Utah, with a secondary emphasis in Early Music Studies and Traverso Performance. She is currently appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Music Education at the University of Utah.