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Nasehpour Ensemble to perform at German festival

TEHRAN — Iran’s Nasehpour Ensemble will give a concert at the Musics of the World Festival that will be held from November 8th, 2009, in Halle, Germany.

The concert, which is a Improvisational performance, was held two years ago at the festival and was warmly received by the audience.

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am Samstag, 7. November 2009, im Teo Otto Theater

zu Gunsten der Kinderkrebsklinik in Orumieh (Nordwest Iran)

sowie dem IKE Foerderverein fuer Interkulturelle Erziehung e.V.,

Moehrchen in Remscheid, Kinder-Selbsthilfeprojekt Our children and our future in Uganda und weitere Projekte

iranische klasische Musik:

Farzin Darabi Far (Tar und Setar) und seine Schueler

Peyman Nasehpour (Tonbak)

Naomi Yoshimura am Klavier

Orientalische Tanzgruppen Patchouli und Misch Misch

Nachwuchs-Showgruppe artistic jumpers

Einlass 18.00 Uhr
Beginn 19.00 Uhr
Eintritt 15.00 Euro
Schueler / Studenten 5.00 Euro
an der Abendkasse
Info: 0162 914 80 42

The Institute of Mathematics, Universität Osnabrück will hold a conference on “Combinatorial structures in algebra and topology” October 8 – 10, 2009.

Invited speakers:
C. Berger, Nice
M. Blickle, Essen
M. Boij, Stockholm
M. Brun, Bergen
A. Conca, Genoa
J. Gubeladze, San Francisco
T. Hüttemann, Belfast
U. Nagel, Lexington
F. Santos, Santander
S. Schwede, Bonn
N. Semenov, München
V. Welker, Marburg
T. Wendt, Freiburg

The invited lectures will be supplemented by short communications.

Organizing committee: H. Brenner, W. Bruns, T. Römer, O. Röndigs, R. Vogt

For further information see the conference web site. Conference e-mail address: confcsat at math.uos.de

Pooyan digitalized a tonbak solo of mine and we uploaded that tonbak solo on youtube/tonbak.

Persian music and New Year traditions have been registered on UNESCO’s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Tradition of Persian New Year, Nowruz, and the Radif of Iranian music were inscribed on the list during the 4th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage held from Sep. 28 to Oct. 2, 2009 in Abu Dhabi.

Nowruz, which coincides with the first day of spring on the solar calendar, is mostly celebrated in Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan.

For Iranians, Nowruz is a celebration of renewal and change, a time to visit relatives and friends, and pay respect to senior family members.

Iranians welcome the New Year by wearing new clothes and setting the Haft Seen, a table containing seven items starting with the letter ‘S’ — Sabzeh (freshly grown greens), Samanoo (A type of traditional pudding), Senjed (Jujube), Seeb (Apple), Seer (Garlic), Sumac and Serkeh (vinegar).

The Radif of Iranian music is the traditional repertoire of the classical music of Iran and reflects the cultural and national identity of the Iranian people.

UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) was established in the 1990s and deals with oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, traditional craftsmanship and knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe.

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World famous kamancheh master, Kayhan Kalhor will perform in New York city on October 3rd, 2009, Saturday at 8:00 PM. He will be accompanied on tonbak by Behrouz Jamali.

They will play songs of hope for Iran at Peter Norton Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th St., New York.

Parviz Meshkatian, the great master of Persian santoor, passes away.

Parviz Meshkatian was born in Neishabur (northeastern Iran) in 1955. He started his musical training at the age of six with his father Hassan Meshkatian, who played tar and santur masterfully and was also familiar with the violin and setar, having himself learned music from his father.
At an early age, Meshkatian entered the Tehran Academy of Arts, where he studied music theory and was introduced to radif (the Persian classical music repertoire) by the masters Nour Ali Boroumand, Dariush Safvat, Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh, and Mehdi Barkeshli. He focused on the radif of Mirza Abdollah for santur and setar.

After finishing his academic studies, Meshkatian continued the study of music with such masters as the late Abdollah Davami, Saied Hormozi, and Yousef Forootan. He has won the first prize in santur performance at the Barbad competition. He has taught santur at the Center for the Preservation and Dissemination of Music, where he also served as ensemble leader.

In 1977, Meshkatian founded the Aref Ensemble, which has brought a number of vocalists and musicians to prominence. He has composed numerous songs and pieces of music, all of which the ensemble has recorded and performed at concerts in Europe and America.

The ensemble has accordingly been recognized for its efforts to introduce Persian music outside of Iran. In the spring of 1992, Meshkatian was chosen as the best composer at the Spirit of the Earth festival in Italy. He was also one of the founding members of the Chavosh Artistic and Cultural Foundation, which has played a major role in the development of Iranian music in recent years. Meshkatian’s settings of classical poetry to music, based on a profound knowledge of Persian literature, established a new chapter of song writing in Persian classical music.

As a leading figure and a santur virtuoso, he has introduced many new santur performance techniques and, by adding new instruments, changed the color of the sound associated with ensemble orchestration.
Parviz Meshkatian has recorded over 200 pieces of work, published 18 books and many more articles, and performed in hundreds of concerts around the world. The Maestro remains active in recording, composing, and writing, and his work will continue to enrich Persian music for many years to come.

Parviz Meshkatian Official Website