Amir Farsi

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.

An alumnus of 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, flutist and innovator Claire Chase, oboist Steven Taylor, harpist Parker Ramsay, bassist Scott Pingel, pianist Mika Sasaki, and horn player William Purvis. Other projects have included composers Julia Wolfe, Michi Wiancko, Luca Francesconi, Reena Esmail, Kaija Saariaho, Robert Honstein, visual-artist Kevork Mourad, multidisciplinary ensemble Running AMOC, cellist Mike Block and tabla-player Sandeep Das, and multidisciplinary duo The Afield. Amir received his education from the Peabody Conservatory and Yale School of Music where he studied with Marina Piccinini and Ransom Wilson.