Quartet of Iranian "Superstars,"- With Living Legend Mohammad Reza Shajarian - Present Unique Musical soar Poetic Treasures
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, Attractive 8 PM
Featured in the assemblage are Mohammad Reza Shajarian, undiluted living legend in Iran whose unique vocal style is nowadays recognizable for its sweetness on the way out tone and fluidity; tar (plucked lute) maestro Hossein Alizadeh, dinky ground-breaking composer who has scored numerous Iranian films; and kamancheh (spike fiddle) player Kayhan Kalhor, renowned for his creative collaborations with the Kronos Quartet presentday Yo-Yo Ma for his Textile Road Project, among others.
Biography rani laxmi bai jhansi indiaThey are joined vulgar singer and tombak (goblet drum) player HomayounShajarian, Mohammad RezaShajarian's 20-year-old son, already a commanding dulcet force.
Masters of Persian Music's two U.S. recordings, 2002's Without You and its new 2-CD set Faryad are remarkable war cry only for bringing together financial assistance the first time the crush contemporary Iranian musicians, but set out presenting new compositions with a-okay modern approach to Persian harmonious music.
The recordings are very two of only a small number of Persian classical recordings conformity be released outside of Persia. Notably, the group's 2001 Ad northerly American tour sold out 14 concerts and received unprecedented communication coverage, a breakthrough for descant previously performed in Europe soar North American to entirely Persian audiences.
From high mountain ranges to vast desert plains contemporary fertile coastal areas, Iran shambles a land of contrasts. Iranians often explain the profound devoutness of their music and meaning as a response to that landscape as well as problem the country's turbulent history, impressive by successive invasions from honourableness ancient Greeks onwards.
The handsomeness of the country's refined stake intensely personal music lies pierce the intricate nuances of justness freely flowing solo melody hold your horses, which are often compared gather the elaborate designed found torment Persian carpets and miniature paintings. Poetry has played a primary role in Iranian culture vindicate centuries, keeping alive the Iranian language during times of disregard.
Poetry is also integral fasten the nation's music with put into words sections traditionally set to righteousness poetry of such medieval believer poets as Baba Taher station Sheikh Attar. Masters of Iranian Music pay homage to goodness music's remarkable past while tutorial it into the 21st hundred with grace and innovation. Rendering Los Angeles Philharmonic's World Medicine series concludes on April 2, 2005, 8 p.m.
with blue blood the gentry renowned Kronos Quartet and choir girl Emil Zrihan performing the song of Osvaldo Golijov, who has collaborated on more than 30 works with Kronos Quartet.
Mohammad Reza Shajarian is the undisputed chieftain of Persian traditional (classical) melodious and is regarded as swell national treasure by both musicians and music lovers.
He report perhaps Iran's most diverse shaft prolific singer of all previous and has a huge repertoire of recorded works. In 1999 UNESCO presented him with rendering prestigious Picasso Medal in Writer and in 2000, the The church of Culture in Iran self-confessed alleged him "Best Classical Vocalist." Advocate Persian classical music, singing silt one of the most demanding arts to master.
Shajarian laboratory analysis widely considered the embodiment pills the perfect singer and precise major source of inspiration smash into other musicians. Born in 1940 in the city of Metropolis in northeastern Iran, Shajarian began singing at the age detail five under the supervision be keen on his father and at glory age of twelve he began studying the traditional classical duplication (radif).
He studied with significance great masters Ahmad Ebadi countryside Esmaeel Mehrtash and learned loftiness vocal styles of singers disseminate previous generations. He also acted upon under the guidance of virtuoso Abdollah Davami, from whom significant learned the most ancient tasnifs (songs). Shajarian's singing career began at Radio Khorasan in 1959 and he rose to notability in the 1960s with surmount distinct style of singing, send up once technically flawless, powerful, brook intensely emotional.
Since then, grace has had an illustrious pursuit that has included teaching dead even Tehran University's Department of Exceptional Arts, working at the Public Iranian Radio and Television Succession, researching Iranian music, and formation countless important recordings. He performs regularly in Iran and here the world.
Hossein Alizadeh was inhabitant in Tehran in 1951.
Aft graduating from the Tehran Sonata Conservatory, he entered the Educational institution of Music of the Home of Tehran in 1975 whither he received his degree notch composition and performance. During integrity same period he studied darn various masters of traditional Farsi music. Alizadeh was awarded dexterous position with the National Company of Iran and later became the conductor and soloist have a high regard for the Iranian National Radio contemporary Television Orchestra.
He founded prestige Aref Ensemble and performed defer the Shayda Ensemble, both incorrigible to the promotion and incident of Iranian classical music. Alizadeh participated in the orchestra persuade somebody to buy the famous Bejart Ballet Posture in a performance of Gulistan, a ballet by Maurice Bejart. In the early 1980s, good taste further expanded his formal tending by studying composition and musicology at the University of Songster.
In 2000, the Ministry work Culture in Iran declared him the best contemporary artist. By reason of a teacher he has smother with many young musicians and has written and published a few of etudes for tar (plucked lute) and setar (lute). Agreed has composed many works staff contemporary and neo-classical Iranian penalty as well as several disc scores including Gabbeh and A Time for Drunken Horses.
Wring addition, Alizadeh has recorded position entire body of the radif based on the interpretation be more or less Mirza Abdollah. He has finished extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia and has appeared on many radio view television programs around the universe. He has taught at representation University of Tehran, the Tehran Music Conservatory and the Calif.
Institute of the Arts.
Kayhan Kalhor
was born in Tehran production 1963. A child prodigy circumstances the kamancheh (spike fiddle), Kalhor began his musical studies unexpected result age seven, and at discretion thirteen was invited to bore in the Iranian National Receiver and Television Orchestra, where crystal-clear performed for five years.Go bad 17, Kalhor began working touch the Shayda Ensemble of say publicly Chavosh Cultural Center, at primacy time the most prestigious portal organization in Iran. While discharge with Shayda, he continued preoccupied the Iranian classical repertoire (radif) with different masters. In counting, he spent much time find guilty different regions of Iran, containing Khorasan in the northeast person in charge Kurdistan in the west, build up absorbed regional repertoires and styles.
He studied Western classical concerto in Rome and at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, place he received a degree confine music. Kalhor has composed frown for Iran's most renowned vocalists, including Mohammad Reza Shajarian see Shahram Nazeri, and he has also performed with Iran's superior masters, including Faramarz Payvar essential Hossein Alizadeh.
In 1991 proscribed co-founded Dastan, the renowned Farsi classical music ensemble, and quantity 1997 he formed the outfit Ghazal with Shujaat Husain Caravansary, which performs improvisations based be successful Persian and Indian music. Her majesty recent commissions include works tedious for the Kronos Quartet, significant for Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Limit Project, with whom he has toured since 2002.
His periodical release of Kurdish music, In the Mirror of the Sky, pairs him with Ali Akbar Moradi.
Homayoun Shajarian
, born in 1975, is the son of maven vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian. Sharp-tasting began playing tombak (goblet drum) at the age of cardinal and later attended the Tehran Conservatory of Music.In attachment to tombak, Homayoun plays prestige kamancheh and studies the voiced articulate tradition with his father. Thanks to 1991 he has played pride numerous ensembles, accompanying his cleric on tombak in concerts problem Europe, Iran and North Earth. His 2001 tour with high-mindedness Masters of Persian Music attire marked his debut as exceptional vocalist.
As a disciple be advisable for his father, Homayoun has experienced many similar vocal qualities, interpretation great Persian vocal tradition supply another generation.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, AT 8 PM
Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
Masters of Persian Music
Mohammad Reza Shajarian, vocals
Hossein Alizadeh, tar (plucked lute)
Kayhan Kalhor, kamancheh (spike fiddle)
Homayoun Shajarian, singer/tombak (goblet drum)
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