Editions
The editions programme prepares numbered critical scores and monographs for musicians and researchers to use in performance and study.
The maqam, inside the symphony.
Ziyodullo Shahidi set the classical maqams inside the symphony. The Foundation takes that music into study and performance through work on scores and scholarship.
Programmes
The Foundation's programme joins work on critical editions and new commissions with teaching. Residency and salon give composers and scholars time for work and discussion. Archive research returns to the source material.
The editions programme prepares numbered critical scores and monographs for musicians and researchers to use in performance and study.
Commissions connect composers with cultural partners to develop new scores for performers.
Residency gives composers and scholars time for focused work at the Samarkand residence; the salon brings that work into conversation.
Shahidi's first opera, Komde & Madan, brings Bedil's poem to the stage.
Ziyodullo Shahidi writes the Symphony of Maqams, drawing on Shashmaqom themes.
Munira Shahidi founds the Foundation during Tajikistan's civil war.
Meet Ziyodullo Shahidi, Munira Shahidi, Farangis Nurulla-Khoja and Nargis Nurulla-Khoja.