2023

Luggage Store Gallery | San Francisco
Thea Farhadian and Silvia Matheus duo

2022

Mosswood Sound Series | Oakland, CA
Thea Farhadian and Tim Perkis duo

2021

Downtown Music Gallery | Chinatown, NYC
Solo Violin & Interactive Electronics & duo with Shelley Hirsch

2019

Berkeley BART Station | Berkeley, CA
A New Sense of Place (site-specific sound installation)
Thea Farhadian and Dean Santomieri

Coaxial | Los Angeles, CA
Solo violin and interactive electronics improvised to video of Heike Liss.

Adobe Books | San Francisco, CA
Quartet: Shelley Hirsch, Gino Robair, Thomas Dimuzio, Thea Farhadian.

Garden of Memory Solstice Concert | Oakland, California
Garden of Memory Solstice Concert

2018

Center for New Music | San Francisco, CA
Quark Matters (Farhadian, Vinkeloe, Robinson, Reed, and Perkis)

Spektrum | Berlin
skratchklang: Heike Liss (visuals) & Thea Farhadian (violin) with featured artist Andrea Parkins (objects and electronics)

2017

Active Music Series | Oakland, CA
Tim Perkis & Thea Farhadian Duo

Artist-Homes | Berlin
Thea Farhadian Solo & ALCHIMA ORGANICA (Duo Bauer/Lucchese)

Spektrum | Berlin
Thea Farhadian Solo CD Release &
ALCHIMA ORGANICA (Duo Bauer/Lucchese)

Galeria Monumental | Lisbon
Solo Violin (acoustic) - Small Format Materials Festival

O’culto da Ajuda | Lisbon
with Ernesto Rodrigues, Hugo Atunes, and ensemble

Galeria Monumental | Lisbon
Improvised Music Series - Quartet with Abdul Moimêm, Carlos Godinho Carlos Santos, Eduardo Chagas

2016

San Francisco Electronic Music Festival | San Francisco
Solo Violin & Interactive Electronics

Garden of Memory Solstice Concert | Oakland, California
Garden of Memory Solstice Concert
Santomieri-Farhadian Duo

t-Berlin | Berlin
Trio with Tomomi Adachi, kriton b. and Thea Farhadian

Kühlspot Social Club | berlin
Quartet with Tania Chen, Chris Heenan, Alexander Frangenheim & Thea Farhadian

2015

Quiet Cue | Berlin - 4 Nov
CD Release concert for eXcavations
Klaus Kürvers - doublebass, Thea Farhadian - violin

studioboerne45 | Berlin - 2 Oct
With Hong Yoo, Jieun Kang, Floros Floridis, and Alexander Frangenheim.
Directed by Sandeep Bhagwati from MatraLab, Montreal.

Sowieso | Berlin - 7 Oct
With Alexnder Frangenheim, Tom Arthurs, Samuel Hall, Nikalaus Neuser, & Richard Scott

The Vamp | Oakland, California - 24 Aug
Tim Perkis & Thea Farhadian Duo

Berkeley Arts Festival | Berkeley, California - 8 Aug
SANTOMIERI-FARHADIAN DUO, RedBlue CD Release

Garden of Memory Solstice Concert | Oakland, California - 21 June
Santomieri-Farhadian Duo

Garden of Memory Solstice Concert | Oakland, California - 21 June
Santomieri-Farhadian Duo

MaThilda | Berlin - 20 April
Korhan Erel & Thea Farhadian Duo

Kühlspot | Berlin - 11 April
Klaus Kürvers & Thea Farhadian Duo

Montalvo Arts Center | Saratoga, California - 28 Feb
Solo Violin & Interactive Electronics

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2014

Berkeley Arts Festival | Berkeley, California - 30 June
Outsound Fundraiser
Duo with Amy X Neuburg

Berkeley Arts Festival | Berkeley, California - 3 May
Santomieri-Farhadian Duo

2013

Quiet Cue | Berlin - 18 OCT
SOLO VIOLIN & INTERACTIVE ELECTRONICS

T-Berlin | Berlin - 1 OCT
DUO'S: Thea Farhadian & Klaus Küvers; Thea Farhadian & Dean Santomeri

Amsterdam Undercurrent XXX at K77 | Berlin - 27 SEP
SANTOMERI-FARHADIAN DUO

House Concert | Berlin - 6 SEP
SOLO VIOLIN & INTERACTIVE ELECTRONICS

Garden of Memory | Oakland, California - 22 JUN
SANTOMERI-FARHADIAN DUO

Meridian Gallery | San Francisco - 22 JUN
SANTOMERI-FARHADIAN DUO

Crane House | Oakland, California - 19 MAY
SANTOMERI-FARHADIAN DUO

Koinonia Experimental Music Festival | Berkeley, California - 20 APR
SOLO VIOLIN & INTERACTIVE ELECTRONICS

2012

Berkeley Arts Festival | Berkeley, CA
October 13, 2012
SANTOMERI-FARHADIAN DUO
opening for Stuart Dempster and Eric Glick Rieman

K77 - Curated by Amsterdam Underkurrent XXX | Berlin
August 24, 2012
SOLO VIOLIN & ELECTRONICS
DUO’S WITH ALEXANDER BEIERBACH-SAXAPHONE

Museum der Unerhörten Dinge | Berlin
August 8 & 10, 2012
HAPPENING WITH NATALJA STRUVE & HENNING BRANDIS &
ALEXANDER BEIERBACH-SAXAPHONE

Galerie Mario Mazolli | Berlin
July 26, 2012
SOLO VIOIN & INTERACTIVE ELECTRONICS

Room Series | San Francisco, CA
June 29, 2012
SOLO VIOIN & INTERACTIVE ELECTRONICS

Garden of Memory | Oakland, CA
June 21, 2012
Santomeri-Farhadian Duo

Meridian Gallery | San Francisco, CA
May 5, 2012
Duo with Ron Heglin

KZSU RADIO | Stanford, CA
Day of Noise
February 12, 2012 - 20:30 - 21:00

House Concert at Private Residence | Oakland, CA
January 22, 2012
SOLO VIOLIN & ELECTRONICS

2011

Luggage Store Gallery | San Francisco, CA
December 1, 2011
SOLO VIOIN & INTERACTIVE ELECTRONICS

Salon Bruit | Berlin
13 May, 2011
SOLO LAP TOP

German House | Sanaa', Yemen
5 March, 2011
SOLO PERFORMANCE, SOUND ART PRESENTATION

SAE Institute | Amman, Jordan
22 February, 2011
ARTISTS' TALK

Altes Finanzamt | Berlin
8 November - 2011
with Dafna Naphtali

City University London | London
Zenith Foundation
18 November, 2011
Volatile Frequencies: Topologies of Authority, Technology and Production in Contemporary Middle Eastern Music Practices. Artists' Talk.

2010

Sowieso | Berlin
19 September, 2010
SOLO ELECTRONICS

Madame Claude | Berlin
28 Juni, 2010
SOLO ELECTRONICS

Verwertung Interdisziplinäres Kunstfestival | Berlin
2 Juli, 2010
SOLO ELECTRONICS

Soweiso | Berlin
7 Mai, 2010
Duo with Daniel Schorno (electronics)

Wendel | Berlin
14 April, 2010
SOLO ELECTRONICS

Tom's Place | Berkeley, CA
March 17, 2010
Duo Pantomorf (Sweden) Kyle Bruckmann, and Tim Perkis

21 Grand | Oakland, CA
14 April, 2010
Bruce Ackley, Henry Kaiser, Eva Mendoza,
Kanoko Nishi, Tim Perkis, Gino Robair

2009

Center for New Music & Audio Technology | Berkeley, CA
May 18, 2009
SF Sound, Jane Rigler, and Phil Gelb

Luggage Store Gallery | San Francisco, CA
May 14, 2009
Duo with Tom Bickley (laptop and recorder)

2008

Audio Radio Village Nomade | Etavayer-le-lac, Switzerland
Ongoing
Voices From Behind The Veil (excerpt)

Tan Gram | Florence, Italy
December 10, 2008
SOLO ELECTRONICS

Salon Bruit | Berlin
November 21, 2008
SOLO ELECTRONICS

Luggage Store Gallery | San Francisco, CA
August 28, 2008
SOLO ELECTRONICS (with Iron Dog)

Meridian Gallery | San Francisco, CA
May 14, 2008
Solo Performance-Electronics

Theater for the New City | New York City
March 18, 2008
Collaboration with Dafna Naphtali

Columbia University | New York City
March 8, 2008
Speaking Beyond Living Room Walls:
The Armenian Diaspora & Its Discontents
Threading Cultural Space (PDF)
Beyond Living (PDF)

California State University Fullerton | Fullerton, CA
February 28 - March 2, 2008
7th Annual New Music Voices
Inclusive Voices: Healing the Divide
IMPROVISATION NO.7, 6:40, 2007
Laptop - Thea Farhadian, Viola - Katrina Wreede

Collective Unconscious | New York City
February 14, 2008
"loVe anD iT's diScontents"
Co-curate screening of experimental video's with
Robert Voisey from Vox Novus

2007

Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists | Berkeley, CA
July 26, 2007
Never and Always
IMPROVISATION: Thea Farhadian, Electronics; Katie Wreede, Viola

Meridian Gallery | San Francisco, CA
May 9, 2007
GENERALLY MIDAIR: a site-specific electro-acoustic chamber work by Tom Bickley.

Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room | Fullerton, CA
March 3, 2007
California State University Fullerton
TATTOOS AND OTHER MARKINGS, section 1 12:08

2006

Issue Project Room | Brooklyn, NY
December 29, 2006
TATTOOS AND OTHER MARKINGS, 29:00 (with Iron Dog)
(electronic music performance)

Luggage Store Gallery | San Francisco, CA
December 14, 2006
TATTOOS AND OTHER MARKINGS, 29:00 (with Eddie the Rat)

International Women's Listening Room Project | Amsterdam
June 29, 2006
BIMhuis in the Muziekgebouw
VOICES FROM BEHIND THE VEIL, 21:38
Excerpt from two-channel audio piece, 2004 (In English and Arabic)

Sound and Anthropology Conference | Scotland
June 17-19, 2006
St. Andrew's University
VOICES FROM BEHIND THE VEIL, 21:38
Two-channel audio piece, 2004 (In English and Arabic)