Fahad Siadat

Fahad Siadat is a performer and composer specializing in contemporary and experimental music, particularly improvisation and the use of extended vocal techniques. As a composer, he focuses on music for the voice, but has written for such ensembles as The New Century Players, TOCCATA Symphony Orchestra, and the California E.A.R. Unit. He is co-artistic director of The Resonance Collective in New York, an interdisciplinary music/dance ensemble with collaborator Andre Megerdichian and has worked as a conductor with the Columbia University Glee Club, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective. In 2012, he founded See-A-Dot Music Publishing, Inc., a company devoted to the advocacy of new choral works and emerging composers. He is currently a DMA candidate at the California Institute of the Arts Performer/Composer Program, the conductor of the Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, and a board member of C4.