Digital

Daisy Sex Spears is No. 7 in the "Queer Canticles" series.

Cesium Singing​ is a work which is performed by multiple smart devices (phones, tablets, laptops, etc.).

​Transformations III: Not Here and Now​ features the poetry of Philip Larkin (The Old Fools), read by Joanna Cobb Biermann. 

​Soundtrack for Brad’s eHarmony Profile was selected for performance at the 2015 PARMA International New Music Festival, the 2015 Electronic Music Midwest Festival, the 2014 Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference, the Oxford Brookes University’s (UK) 2013 International Audiograft Festival, the 2012 Society of Composers, Inc. Student National Conference, and the University of Mary Washington’s 2012 Annual Electroacoustic Barndance, a national festival. 

Solo Instrument

​Prelude to the Holy Dark is a solo for piano. It is published in the International Journal for Contemporary Composition. In 2015, Navona Records recorded and released the composition on the album "Felt: Striking Works for Solo Piano." In 2016, the composition was re-released on Navona Records Collections 5 CD Set "What Are They Doing To That Piano?"

To Bring to Bloom is a solo for tuba, which was composed for Jeremy Crawford. It appears on Crawford's solo album "to Bring to Bloom," released by Emeritus Recordings.

Chamber Instrumental

Secret Winter is a work for solo horn and piano. It was recorded and released by Emeritus Records and appears on Martin King's album "The Phoenix." Secret Winter is published by Potenza Music Publishers. 

​Two Girls and a Boy (2013), I come from where the Lotus Flower blooms (2016), and Pit-a-Pat-a-Pavane (2016) are a collection of three pieces for woodwind trio. Two Girls and a Boy was selected as “pick of the week” by Soundnotion.tv and was featured on their iTunes podcast. The piece was selected for performance at the 2015 Hot Springs National Music Festival, the 2014 International Clarinet Association Conference, as well as the 2014 Hot Springs National Music Festival. The composition was recorded and released by Blue Griffin Recordings and appears on the Cavell Trio's album "Dialogue." The Cavell Trio premiered I come from where the Lotus Flower blooms at the International Double Reed Society 45th annual conference in Columbus, Georgia in June of 2016. The trio also premiered Pit-a-Pat-a-Pavane at the 2016 ClarinetFest in Lawrence, Kansas. These two compositions appear on The Cavell Trio's 10th anniversary album "New Discoveries." The first two pieces are published by Potenza Music Publishers.

Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble

This Must Be What Keeps Them Quiet, a concerto for horn and wind ensemble, was commissioned by the International Horn Society and premiered by the United States Army Field Band at the 2018 International Horn Society Conference. The conference took place on the campus of Ball State University, in Muncie, Indiana. The recording from the premiere has not yet been made available. In its absence, the full score is provided here.

Treble Chorus

the thing with feathers was composed for the UA Treble Chorus, Dr. Marvin Latimer, Jr., conductor, for premiere in November of 2018. The work was also performed at the 2019 Alabama Music Educators Association Conference. The work is for treble chorus, horn in F, and piano, and employs Emily Dickinson's poem "Hope is the thing with feathers." (poem 314). The performance of this work begins at 27:10.

Children's Choir

Listen to My Voice was commissioned by the Kentucky Music Educators Association for the Jr. High Mixed Chorus, Ronnie Oliver, Jr., conductor. The composition is for four-part mixed chorus, piano, and viola. The work was premiered February 10, 2012 at the Kentucky Center for the Arts, in Louisville, Kentucky. The composer was the collaborative pianist for the premiere.

Film

May I Take Your Picture? is part of a series of collaborative works by Dr. Zaheri and filmmaker and choreographer Rebecca Salzer created in response to the global crisis of forcibly displaced people. In May, 2016, Salzer and Zaheri traveled to Greece, where they visited the unofficial refugee camp at Idomeni. 12,000-15,000 refugees were trapped on the border of Macedonia, where they had been stopped on their intended journey into northern Europe. Three days after this footage was recorded, riots broke out in the unofficial refugee camp, and police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. Ten days after this footage was recorded, police evacuated and bulldozed the camp, relocating fewer than half of its residents to official government camps. The other residents of this temporary camp fled into the neighboring fields to evade government detention. May I Take Your Picture documents one moment, one place, and a particular chapter in the plight of refugees in Greece that has now passed. The response as artists is impressionistic. The collaborative pair hopes it adds texture and dimension to the audience's understanding of this ongoing human crisis. The film was chosen for showing at the 2017 Experimental Film Forum, in Los Angeles, California. That same year, the film was selected for showing at the Sound Thought International Festival of Music and Sound Research, Composition, and Performance. This event took place in Glasgow, Scotland. In early 2019, May I Take Your Picture? was named “Official Selection” at the Blowup Film Fest of the Chicago Arthouse International Film Festival.

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Multimedia

Interstellar Responses: music to [be shuffled] and moved to while [shuffled] (2014) is a collection of 52 short digital compositions. The work premiered in March of 2015, in a collaborative partnership with choreographer Rebecca Salzer, at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center of Tuscaloosa. The video provides highlights from the performance. Additional audio-only samples are also provided. 

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Highlights Video

The Flow of Boats, a work created in collaboration with filmmaker and choreographer Rebecca Salzer, touches on the ways in which our relationship with technology both connects us and distances us from world crises. Dancers move with cell phones, and the sound for the piece is generated by the dancers' cell phones as well as the audience, streaming a common track through their own mobile devices. 

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Kinder Things is a piece for 32 performers composed in collaboration with filmmaker and choreographer Rebecca Salzer, and student Creative Media major, Reagan Wells, involving movement, singing, clarinet, flute, and three-screen projection. The piece is the latest in a series of works Salzer and Zaheri have created catalyzed by the global crisis of forcibly displaced people. Lyrics sung in the piece are from Khaled Hosseini’s “Sea Prayer:” “If only they saw. They would say kinder things, surely.” This 360 Video Experience was recorded during tech week, days prior to the opening of the performances.

Interactive Web-Based Performance

Image and Sound to be Shuffled, a collaboration with filmmaker and choreographer Rebecca Salzer, is an exploration of the specific conditions of experiencing art online and the potential for online space to be used as a digital performance venue.  The web-based piece involves a series of 90-second image and sound studies that, when randomized with the “Shuffle” button, create 36 distinct visual/audio pairings. Visit the site HERE.

Musical Theatre

Over Dinner (2013) is a full-length musical, which was commissioned and premiered by the University of Alabama Opera Theatre. The book, music, and lyrics are by the composer.