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Niloufar Nourbakhsh (Persian نیلوفر نوربخش); born 1992 is an Iranian composer, based in New York City. She is a founding member of the Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA).

Education and early career

Nourbakhsh graduated from the piano performance department of Goucher College. Currently, she is a PhD student of composition at Stony Brook University, working with Daniel Weymouth. Nourbakhsh is a Global Citizen of Scholarship recipient of Goucher College, as well as w Mahoney and Caplan Scholar from the University of Oxford. She has studied composition with Shila Silver, Lisa Weiss, Laura Kaminsky, and Daria Semegen.

Musical work

Nourbakhsh’s music has been performed by Symphony Number One, Spark and Echo Project, Women Composers Festival of Hartford, I-Park Foundation, PUBLIQuartet, Calidore String Quartet, Cassarr String Quartet, Akropolis Reed Quintet at numerous festivals including Atlantic Music Festival, Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music, New Paltz Piano Summer, SPLICE institute, New Music For Strings, Stony Brook Chamber Music Festival, University of Tennessee Contemporary Music Festival, among others. As a founding member of the Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA), Nourbakhsh is an advocate of diversity in contemporary music and music education. She has worked as the site coordinator of Brooklyn Middle School Jazz Academy sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center. Currently, Nourbakhsh is a Teaching Artist Associate for composition students of NY Philharmonic Young Composers Program, and teaches piano at Brooklyn Music School.