Music professor is found murdered in her apartment
NewsThe Iran-born soprano and teacher Haleh Abghari, renowned for New York performances of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King’, has been found stabbed to death in her Colorado Springs apartment. Police are treating the death as homicide, possibly in the course of a robbery.
Abghari, 54, had been a music professor for ten years at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs.
She is survived by her parents and her sister. A Gofundme appeal has been started to support them.
The composer Jason Eckardt writes: ‘One of the most arresting performances I have seen was Haleh Abghari’s realization of Aperghis’ Récitations. I was not alone: everyone who attended that concert at Miller Theatre was stunned and Haleh’s interpretation reverberated with the force of an earthquake throughout the new music community. Her agile, powerful, yet refined voice was matched by her sense of drama, completely inhabiting the piece, riveting every listener in the hall. I will never forget it, or her.’
I mean no disrespect to this artist but wasn’t “Eight Songs for a Mad King” written for baritone voice with chamber group? The recording I have of it, conducted by Davies, features Julius Eastman.
Yes. she was apparently its only female interpreter.
Wtf Larry
The woman just got stabbed to death and you are whining about voice range?
I wasn’t “whining.” I asked a simple question in a respectful manner. OK?
Just…. horrifying.
This death, as reported, of the Iranian-born soprano & academic Haleh Abghari is an unspeakable tragedy of operatic proportion. Sincere condolences go out to her family, friends, colleagues & students world wide.
Unspeakable sums it up.
This is ghastly.
I went to grad school with her. She was enormously talented, hard working and very fun to be with.
Just horrifying.