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The sounds that best defined the tone, mood and invention of last night's remarkable global music summit by the Silk Road Ensemble at the EKU Center for the Arts in Richmond bookended the program. Curiously, neither instance featured the group's star
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March 21, 2012 Iranian kamanche virtuoso and innovative composer Kayhan Kalhor is known for his international collaborations with cellist Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, the Persian-Indian ensemble m: Ghazal = 23569, and the Brooklyn Rider
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You close your eyes; you start playing, and you kind of get lost in the music, said Shayan Parsai, a 21-year-old college student who plays the kamancheh. Once I warm up and my fingers start moving, there's no way to really stop me; I don't want to
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The Tuesday Musical Club commemorates the beginning of the Civil War with the group "The Wayward Companions" performing parlor music of the time from the North and South...The "Very Superstitious Comedy Show" at Cefalo's, 428 Washington Ave.,
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Like many quartets of the post-Kronos generation, Brooklyn Rider has largely jettisoned the traditional approach to repertory and presentation and built a style of its own. Though it has not abandoned standard repertory entirely, its focus is on new
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Over the course of the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center, the notion of music as a conduit to spirituality has taken a variety of forms: individual contemplation, communal praise, the physical discipline of dance, a rock star's beatific charisma.
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Spain's Rosario 'La Tremendita', Salvador Gutierrez, and Sergio Martinez will join Motamedi along with Iranian Kamancheh player Rouzbeh Asadian, and Moslem Rahal and Firas Hassan from Syria. The concert, named Qasida, will be held on August 18, 2010,
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Iranian Santour virtuoso Ardavan Kamkar and prominent Kamancheh player Ardeshir Kamkar will also have solo performances in the program, the Mehr News Agency said on Wednesday. This is the orchestra's third benefit concert organized by the Mahak
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The group will hold fusion music concerts, performing folk and modern Azeri pieces as well as traditional Persian music at the Interior Ministry's Grand Hall on June 11 and 12, 2010. Shahriari will be accompanied by Afshin Alavi (Kamancheh), Hamzeh
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Spain’s Golden Age, an era of peaceable coexistence and cooperation among Jews, Muslims and Christians during the 9th through 15th centuries, has inspired projects by numerous prominent artists. Some, like the great Catalan viol player Jordi Savall (
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