​​I am a classical singer, improviser, voice teacher, song maker*, and theater artist. I was born in Ecuador to a mixed Iranian-American family, was raised in New Mexico, and have lived, studied, and worked across the US and Europe. I explore the many intersections of concert music and theatre with a special interest in collaboration and extended vocal techniques**. I also teach singing, am a music director for theater, and a stage director for musicians.

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After my formal education (classical singing at NMSU & physical theater at the Jacques Lecoq School), I moved back to my hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I directed circus, immersive theater, operetta, and children's and teen's performances, and established a sonic improvisation practice. While in Santa Fe, I became the lead teacher at Santa Fe Performing Arts, a company member of Theater Grottesco, and one of the original contributing musical artists at Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return, where I later became a performer and eventually the content director for immersive performance. I moved to Budapest at the end of 2019, and became a part of the free improvisation, contemporary classical music, and experimental music scenes, performing alongside classical, jazz, noise, folk, pop, and electronic musicians. After teaching in-person voice lessons for over a decade, I also established an online voice studio.

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My recent creative projects include two world premieres by Czech composer Ondřej Adámek: INES (2024) at Opera Köln, and CONNECTION IMPOSSIBLE (2024) with Ensemble Modern at the Bregenz Festival; Until there is nothing left to forgive (2025) 8 original songs on the Persian diaspora with fine artist Zahra Marwan; Kate Soper's one-woman chamber opera IPSA DIXIT with Chatter ABQ; physical and vocal performances in ONCE WITHIN A TIME, a film by Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass; the escape-room opera THE RESILIENCE OF SISYPHOS with composer Wen Liu and director Carmen Kruse; and my one-woman touring show IN TO OUT. In 2025 I also co-directed a series of multidisciplinary performance labs in New Mexico, Maine, and Pennsylvania with theater and film director Martin Boross.

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I am a member of multiple ensembles and bands including texty raucous improvisation band KAT & THE DEVIL; dirty and free improvisation band PONT; large improvisation ensemble Budapest Improvisors Orchestra; and Timo Kinnunen's extremely wholesome International Experimental Orchestra. I have performed as a guest with NYC's The Rise of The Novel, NYC's Strike Anywhere Ensemble, and Budapest's Gentry Sultan, and I served as the interim artistic director of Budapest's Soharóza Experimental Choir in their 2023-24 season.

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I have released four duo improvisation albums:

Amuse-Bouches (2025) with Rhonda Taylor

Live at Lumen (2024) with Thea Soti

Burdeo​-​Buda​-​Bridges (2022) with Etienne Rolin

Iterations (2021) with Carlos Santistevan

I also wrote a song used in Aida Shirazi’s “Yearning, Every Dawn” which premiered at Ojai Festival in 2023.

A vocal improvisation album with visual artist and vocal improviser Brian Belott is also somewhere in the ether, as is an album with pianist/composer/vocalist Ernő Rubik.***

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I'm based in Brooklyn, NY and Budapest, HU.​
 

* this is a term I've started to use recently. I write songs for solo voice, but songwriter sounds like I'm good at playing the guitar, and composer sounds like I know what all those saxophone transpositions are.​

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** extended vocal techniques are ways of vocalizing that are not traditionally used in classical music descending from European traditions, but can be found in other musical and theatrical traditions around the world.

*** You can also find a classical album on Spotify if you search my name, but when I recorded it, I was recovering from working with a voice teacher that did some harm to me, and I wasn't singing very well. This is part of my story, as it is of many singers' stories. Recovering from the vocal and emotional abuse I received from that teacher, has made me a smarter singer and a better teacher with better boundaries(!) for others, so I'm somehow grateful for that experience, although I'm not grateful for the public recording.