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Renowned Kamancheh Player Kayhan Kalhor Performs New Works in Zankel Hall, 10/18
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IRAN’S RENOWNED KAMANCHEH PLAYER AND COMPOSER KAYHAN KALHOR
PERFORMS NEW WORKS IN THE PERSIAN CLASSICAL TRADITION IN
ZANKEL HALL ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18
On Saturday, October 18 at 8:30 p.m. in Zankel Hall, Kayhan Kalhor, Iran’s renowned kamancheh (spike fiddle) player and composer, performs new works in the Persian classical tradition with his own ensemble. Joining him for this performance, entitled Classical Music of Persia, are Siamak Jahangiry on ney (flute), Sahba Motalebi on tar (plucked lute), Behrooz Jamali on tombak (percussion), and guest vocalist Hamid Reza Nourbakhsh. This performance is presented in partnership with World Music Institute. This performance is presented in partnership with World Music Institute.
An internationally acclaimed virtuoso on the kamancheh, Kayhan Kalhor is well known for his work with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, Ghazal, and Masters of Persian Music, and his performances of Persian classical music have attracted audiences around the globe. Born in Tehran, Iran, he began his musical studies at the age of seven, working with the National Orchestra of Radio and Television of Iran a few years later. By 17, Kalhor was performing with the Shayda Ensemble of the Chavosh Cultural Center, the most prestigious arts organization in Iran at that time.
Kalhor has toured the world as a soloist with various ensembles and orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de Lyon, among others. A co-founder of the well-known ensembles Dastan, Ghazal, and Masters of Persian Music, Kalhor has also composed works for Iran’s most celebrated vocalists, Mohammad Reza Shajarian and Shahram Nazeri, and performed and recorded with many of Iran’s greatest instrumentalists. He has composed music for television and film and was most recently featured on the soundtrack of Francis Ford Copolla’s Youth Without Youth to a score he collaborated on with Osvaldo Golijov. In 2004, Kalhor was invited by American composer John Adams to give a recital at Carnegie Hall as part of his In Your Ear series and in the same year participated in the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. Kalhor is a founding member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, and his compositions appear on all three of the Ensemble’s albums. Three of his recent recordings have been nominated for Grammy Awards. His newest CD, Silent City, with Brooklyn Rider, was released on the World Village label in September 2008.
This season’s World Views series, presented in partnership with World Music Institute, next features Corsican folk vocal music group I Muvrini (November 22), Hungarian folk and Gypsy music with rising star Beáta Palya (January 30), and Argentine chamamé musician and accordionist Chango Spasiuk (March 27). World Music Institute is dedicated to the study and presentation of the finest traditional and contemporary music and dance from around the world. Growing out of a concert program developed at New York’s Alternative Museum begun in 1976, the World Music Institute has presented music from more than 100 countries in regions throughout the world.
Program Information
Saturday, October 18 at 8:30 p.m.
Zankel Hall
KAYHAN KALHOR ENSEMBLE
Kayhan Kalhor, Kamancheh (spike fiddle)
Siamak Jahangiry, Ney (flute)
Sahba Motalebi, Tar (plucked lute)
Behrooz Jamali, Tombak (percussion)
Hamid Reza Nourbakhsh, Guest Vocalist
CLASSICAL MUSIC OF PERSIA
Presented by Carnegie Hall in partnership with World Music Institute.
Bank of America is the Proud Season Sponsor of Carnegie Hall.
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