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SOLD OUT: Shubh Saran / Bahar Badieitabar

  April 2, 2022 7:30 PM
Doors Open: 7:00 PM

This performance will be seated.

Shubh Saran is a New York-based guitarist, composer, and producer who has performed globally with his band throughout the United States, India, Canada, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Mexico. Having grown up in six different countries, his career has been shaped by a mixture of influences. Saran’s intricate compositions fuse sounds from modern jazz, neo-soul, and rock with classical and contemporary Indian music. In October 2021, Saran independently released his second full-length album and fourth overall release titled inglish – a groundbreaking work that explores concepts of assimilation, global identity, and native culture.

Pitchfork described inglish as “a heartfelt exploration of the ups and downs of being part of the world’s fastest-growing floating tribe—part global citizen, part cultural refugee,” and named the album to its list of Best Jazz and Experimental Music of 2021.

Before moving to New York City to start his music career, Saran studied at Berklee. During this stage of his life, Saran was developing his craft, gaining opportunities to collaborate with artists such as A.R. Rahman, and establishing friendships and connections who would later in life become bandmates and collaborators. 

His newest album inglish, entirely written, arranged, and produced by Saran, is a big step forward as an artist and composer. After releasing Becoming in late 2019, Saran and his seven-piece band toured briefly in the United States and India, and upon returning to the U.S. were faced with what became the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown. During this time, Saran quickly began writing and recording demos for what would ultimately transform into inglish. The new album explores new musical territory, as Saran incorporates predominant Indian and Middle Eastern instruments for the first time, while expanding the use of modular synthesizers in the momentous arrangements.

Bahar Badieitabar is an Iranian Performance and Composition double-major student at Berklee, benefiting from the presidential scholarship. Her principal instrument is the Oud, an Iranian Classical instrument. At the age of 12, Bahar began her musical training at Tehran Music School, where she received her Music Diploma in 2017. Her experiences throughout the years performing the Oud alongside different musicians with eclectic backgrounds have helped her develop her own approach to music making which is based on Iranian Classical Music with elements from contemporary music.

Bahar won first place at the Iranian Youth National Music Festival for two consecutive years at the ages of 16 and 17. She has performed at various music festivals and many venues in Iran and the U.S. Bahar has formed a quintet called “cypress” with Paolo Peruzzi and some of the greatest Berklee musicians in which they perform their own original compositions. 

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