Special to the Iowa City Press-Citizen

Red Cedar Chamber Music’s directors and core ensemble, violinist Miera Kim and cellist Carey Bostian, will be joined by clarinetist Jean-François Charles and setar player Ramin Roshandel to present Global Consortium , a program featuring two brand-new compositions.

Each guest artist has been commissioned by Red Cedar to create a new work for this program. Roshandel has composed Coping Mechanisms , a multi-movement work that is an homage to the great Persian musical tradition that he grew up in and explores the relationship between good and evil. Yalda is the Persian name for the winter solstice, or the longest night of the year. In Persian culture, Yalda is when light (good) overcomes dark (evil).

Charles has composed The Blues and the Materi

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