CAMPGround26
CAMPGround26 | March 5–7, 2026
CONTEMPORARY ART MUSIC PROJECT (CAMP) will host its annual international new music festival CAMPGround25 from March 5 to 7, 2026.
Call for Installation Proposals
A Little House Music: House Installation
CAMP seeks composers interested in creating new works that incorporate various elements in CAMP’s hub, CAMPGround, the Home of CAMP President Eunmi Ko. These works will be featured in the final concert of CAMPGround 2026, scheduled for March 7, 2026. CAMP will accept up to four proposals from local, national, and international composers. The selected works will premiere alongside a new piece by Anthony R. Green.
Project Director: Anthony R. Green
Anthony R. Green (he/they, b. 1984) is a composer, performer, and social justice artist. His projects have been presented in over 25 countries across 6 continents by various soloists and ensembles including Alarm Will Sound, ensemble dal niente, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. Green is the co-founder of Castle of our Skins, co-artistic director of the Cortona Sessions, and a visiting professor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.
CAMPGround26 Commissioned Composers
CAMPGround26 features commissioned composers from the Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA): Mojan Alaiyeh, Negar Soleymanifar, and Parastoo Shafiei!
Mojan Alaiyeh
Mojan Alaiyeh (1994) is an Iranian composer and musician based in Amsterdam, working across concert music, film, and interdisciplinary projects. With a background in classical composition from the Tehran University of Art and a Master’s in Composing for Film and Media from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, her music is rooted in storytelling and shaped by her Iranian heritage, classical training, and love of literature. Mojan has composed original scores for award-winning films, and her concert works have been commissioned and premiered by festivals such as Gaudeamus, November Music, and the Grachtenfestival, where she also curated Migration of Violets, spotlighting Iranian female composers. She teaches film music in the Young Talent department at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and serves as a jury member for the Keep an Eye Film Score Award. Her work blends emotional depth with personal expression, bridging tradition and experimentation, and resonates in both concert and cinematic worlds.
Website: https://www.mojanalaiyeh.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4sYYuXRF3rJotYSfR46Qkx?si=Ee6fwStRT9ijAZohnVt6iA
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12986437/
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/artist/194414917
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/nl/artist/mojan-alaiyeh/1660951315
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIKeHGlxOXlZNR0bii_h9yA
Netherlands Film Festival: https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/person/mojan-alaiyeh
Buma Music in Motion: https://buma-music-in-motion.nl/composers/mojan-alaiyeh/
Gaudeamus Festival: https://gaudeamus.nl/en/componisten/mojan-alaiyeh/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mojan.alaiyeh/?hl=en
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mojanalaiyeh/?originalSubdomain=nl
Negar Soleymanifar
Negar Soleymanifar is an Iranian composer, vocalist and pianist currently based in Middletown, CT, United States. She centers her work on an interpersonal perspective and its relationship to other human beings, exploring psychological states, inner struggles, and social contexts through her music, seeking to translate inner experience into sound when language falls short or simply to play around with sound itself.. She holds a bachelor's degree in music composition from the Tehran University of Art and is pursuing an MA in music with a concentration in experimental music and composition at Wesleyan University. Her thesis project explores the soundscape of her city, investigating sound in relation to memory, perception, and multiplicity.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@negarsoley
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/negarsoley
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sf.negar_/
Iranian Female Composers Association
Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA) is a group of artists who have combined their experiences and creativity to create a platform for otherwise-unheard musical voices from Iran and diaspora, and build a growing community of female and non-binary identifying composers. IFCA has curated and produced concerts at venues and festivals including the Kennedy Center’s Direct Current, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart, and Ojai festivals.
In 2024, IFCA presented “Peyvand” at National Sawdust as co-producer of Emruz ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Festival, collaborated with Seattle Symphony to present the world premiere of an audiovisual work by Deniz Tafaghodi at Octave9, and collaborated with Duke University to present the world premiere of Atefeh Einali’s ‘hazin’ in celebration of International Women’s Day.
IFCA is a recipient of MAP Fund and 2025 Opera America Discovery Grant for collective opera ‘Nava Avaz’ composed by 6 IFCA composers that will be workshopped at Opera America in Fall 2025.
Parastoo Shafiei
Parastoo Shafiei, born in 1999, began her academic journey in music at the Isfahan Music Conservatory. She went on to earn her bachelor's and master's degrees in music composition from the Arts University of Tehran and Tehran University, respectively. Currently, she is studying for a Doctor of Musical Arts in music composition at Boston University.
Social Media: parastoo_shafiee99 on Instagram
Meet the Performing Artists of CAMPGround26
CAMP is proud to welcome these performing artists from around the world to CAMPGround26.