The Iran-born soprano and teacher Haleh Abghari, renowned for New York performances of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King’, has been found stabbed to death in her Colorado Springs apartment. Police are treating the death as homicide, possibly in the course of a robbery.
Abghari, 54, had been a music professor for ten years at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs.
She is survived by her parents and her sister. A Gofundme has been started to support them.
The composer Jason Eckardt writes: ‘One of the most arresting performances I have seen was Haleh Abghari’s realization of Aperghis’ Récitations. I was not alone: everyone who attended that concert at Miller Theatre was stunned and Haleh’s interpretation reverberated with the force of an earthquake throughout the new music community. Her agile, powerful, yet refined voice was matched by her sense of drama, completely inhabiting the piece, riveting every listener in the hall. I will never forget it, or her.’
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