Future Creator During the 2026-2027 Season

Composer Seare Ahmad Farhat draws inspiration from myriad sources: poetry, mathematics, his Afghan heritage, and Medieval music. He is particularly interested in the ways language and historical texts, with their invitations, subversions, and histories, can serve as points of artistic departure. 
 
Seare has received commissions from the JACK and FLUX Quartets, Longleash Ensemble, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Moscow New Music Ensemble, and Byrne-Kozar Duo among others. Seare has also held residencies at Avaloch Farm Music Institute, Banff Evolution: String Quartet, the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music as a Balhest Eeble Composer Fellow (Cycle 13), and served as the young composer-in-residence of the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings in 2019. He has also received prestigious awards such as the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a BMI Composer Award. Seare holds a B.M. in Composition and B.A. in Mathematics from Oberlin College and Conservatory, an M.M. from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he held the position of Assistant Director of the New Music Ensemble, and is a D.M.A. candidate at Cornell University. His mentors have included Elizabeth Ogonek, Kevin Ernste, Aaron Travers, Stephen Hartke, and Jesse Jones. 

Alongside his work as a composer, Seare performs as a vocalist, is a Program and Support Administrator with the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, and enjoys hiking and camping on weekends off.