Shubh Saran with Bahar Badieitabar

Shubh Saran (Opens in a new window)is a New York-based guitarist, composer, and producer who has performed globally with his band throughout the United States, India, Canada, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Mexico. Having grown up in six different countries, his career has been shaped by a mixture of influences. His newest album, inglish, entirely written, arranged, and produced by Saran, is a big step forward as an artist and composer. After releasing Becoming in late 2019, Saran and his seven-piece band toured briefly in the United States and India, and upon returning to the U.S. were faced with what became the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown. During this time, Saran quickly began writing and recording demos for what would ultimately transform into inglish. The new album explores new musical territory, as Saran incorporates predominant Indian and Middle Eastern instruments for the first time, while expanding the use of modular synthesizers in the momentous arrangements.

Bahar Badieitabar(Opens in a new window) is an Iranian performance and composition double-major student at Berklee, benefiting from the presidential scholarship. Her principal instrument is the oud, an Iranian classical instrument. At the age of 12, Bahar began her musical training at Tehran Music School, where she received her music diploma in 2017. Her experiences throughout the years performing the oud alongside different musicians with eclectic backgrounds have helped her to develop her own approach to music making based on Iranian classical music with elements from contemporary music.