Halifax Regional Arts Orchestra with Behrooz Mihankhah

Halifax’s high-school orchestra under the direction of Nathan Beeler has a history of ambitious arrangements and collaborations, prioritizing a broad and exploratory education of young musicians. Upstream has paired award-winning jazz and Persian music composer Behrooz Mihankhah with these young artists in creating a new work exploring Middle Eastern rhythmic vocabulary and approaches to improvisation in the context of the Western orchestra. The orchestra will additionally feature recent works by young Halifax composers.