Officer: 6 ASTACAP Director
Nusheen Farahani, ASTACAP Director
Nusheen Farahani, ASTACAP Director
Classical violinist, Nusheen Farahani, received her Bachelor’s Degree in Violin Performance from the University of South Carolina under the instruction of Dr. William Terwilliger. She performed as a substitute violinist with the South Carolina Philharmonic, Symphony Orchestra Augusta, the Aiken Symphony, the Brevard Philharmonic, Long Bay Symphony, and the Spartanburg Philharmonic.
Additionally, Nusheen was chosen to perform and teach in the Bahamas for outreach concerts as a member of the distinguished Resonance String Quartet. She has also attended summer programs abroad in Italy, Luxembourg, and Germany to further her chamber music skills.
More recently, she has come to the Celtic style, studying with Alistair Fraser and Natalie Haas at the Isle of Skye Fiddle Camp in Scotland. Soon after the camp Nusheen placed in the Scottish Fiddling Competition at the Charleston Scottish Games.
Nusheen currently performs with various Persian groups as well as orchestras in the northern Virginia area, including the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, the Northern Neck Orchestra, and a few more. Chamber music plays a large role in Nusheen’s performance career as she collaborates with musicians in the area to perform yearly chamber series concerts, which can include duo to string quartet repertoire. Nusheen has also performed with pop groups, including Il Volo, Michael Buble, and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Nusheen is the owner of Studio Muse in Sterling, Virginia and has a bustling violin studio. One of Nusheen’s goals in opening a music studio was to have a space to share many styles of music with the community and to provide a rich environment for students to learn from.
