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 Time:Spans Festival, 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.

A passionate chamber musician, 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, cellist Mike Block, tabla-player Sandeep Das, flutist Claire Chase, and horn player William Purvis. Other projects have included composers Julia Wolfe, Luca Francesconi, Reena Esmail, Kaija Saariaho, Michi Wiancko, Robert Honstein, visual-artist Kevork Mourad, Running AMOC, and multidisciplinary duo The Afield.

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. Amir is an alumnus of Ensemble Connect (2020-2023)—a joint fellowship through Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School, and the Weill Institute of Music. 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. In addition, Amir has received mentorship from Sooyun Kim and Tara Helen O’Connor.

This season, Amir has been named as one of ten Density Fellows as part of Claire Chase’s Density 2036 Project where he will receive mentorship from Claire Chase towards performing works from her Density series. Additionally, Amir has been selected as part of APAP’s YPCA program granting him and 5 other young artists/ensembles resources in professional development, networking opportunities, and an artist showcase at Carnegie’s Weill Hall.