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Kiana Shafiei
PROJECTS
" Creativity and entrepreneurship
characterise so much of her work.
- Professor David Horne
Pianist / RNCM Head of Graduate School
As an engaging and inspiring collaborator, Kiana has appeared with many orchestras. In a project Kiana collaborated with the RNCM orchestra to give the first UK performance of concerto for piano and orchestra by the Juilliard Faculty, Behzad Ranjbaran. This project was generously funded by the Higher Education Council for England. Kiana also gave the first UK performance of Ranjbaran’s solo piano piece Nocturne: A Night in a Persian Garden, during her recital tour across the United Kingdom in spring and summer 2015.
Kiana has performed and recorded three piano concertos by André Aminollah Hossein, a project funded by the research department of the Royal Northern College of Music. The project involved re-creating the lost full score from the parts for concerto no.1, which was last performed more than fifty years ago.
As the co-organiser of the Nava Music Festival, held at the Royal College of Music in London, Kiana managed two days of presentations, keynote speeches, composition workshops and concerts at the Royal College of Music as well as Forge Music and Arts venue in London.
" My archival research at Bibliothèque Nationale de France underpins that Andre Hossein was a well-known composer in his own time, receiving attention from critics both as a composer and tar player.
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However, after just a few decades from his height of popularity finding the scores can be a real obstacle and that is why as part of my research I seek to perform and record pieces that have not been performed for years.
- Kiana Shafiei
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