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Manar Hashmi
Manar Hashmi is a composer, performer, engraver, and all-around music person, with projects ranging from film and TV scores to chamber music to opera. While a large portion of her output is concert music, she is equally drawn to applied composition, and writes music for films, podcasts, theater, museum exhibits, and other multimedia formats. She is experienced with writing for acoustic instruments, voices, and MIDI / sampled instruments, and prioritizes her relationships with performers and collaborators above all else. Manar attended Bard College in New York’s Hudson Valley, where she studied contemporary classical composition with Joan Tower, Jessie Montgomery, Missy Mazzoli, and George Tsontakis. She studied film composition and production with Mark Baechle and James Sizemore. Manar also studied conducting with James Bagwell, and conducted premieres of her own works and her colleagues’—including film scores (both live and in-studio) and an opera by Lucy Berger and Zeke Morgan. She received the Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award as a senior.Browse all performers
