SHABNAM PARVARESH

Shabnam Parvaresh is a clarinetist, visual artist and curator from Tehran, Iran. She studied fine arts in Tehran and then began her musical career after studying clarinet privately in the Tehran Symphony Orchestra. She left Iran in 2013 to study jazz clarinet at the Osnabrück Institute of Music. In her musical work, she pursues an explorative approach that combines elements from Persian music with electronic sounds, improvised music and jazz to create a new musical aesthetic on the clarinet. In 2020 she founded her "Sheen Trio", whose debut album "Gozar" was released in spring 2023 on Berthold Records. In addition to reviews in specialist magazines such as "Jazzthing", pieces by the Sheen Trio have already been featured on WDR and SWR and it has played at national and international festivals. She is also involved in numerous other projects and has played at the Cologne Jazzweek, the Moers Festival, the Tehran Contemporary Music Festival and the Multiphonics Festival. In addition to her work as a musician, she is the curator of the concert series for improvised and experimental music "Klangfenster in der hase29". In 2022 and 2023 she was a jury member of the Musik Fond e.V. As a visual artist, she realized solo exhibitions of her paintings in Tehran, Osnabrück and the U.A.E. and was nominated for the Osnabrück Art Prize in 2022.