The Iranshahr Orchestra, conducted by Shahâb Pâranj, will perform the world premiere of Concerto for Kamancheh, Percussion, Harp, Piano, and Strings on March 10, 2024 at the Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles. The Kamancheh soloist, for whom the piece is written, will be Sohrab Pournazeri.
Composer Reza Vali will mark retirement with a pair of Persian music concerts at Carnegie Mellon
by JEREMY REYNOLDS
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Nov 2, 2022
The rhythms of Persian traditional music defy Western music notation. They’re intricate and complex and give the music a fluid sense of motion.
Persian music is also mostly improvised, or made up on the spot, according to stylistic rules.
“In a way it comes closest to jazz,” said Reza Vali, an Iranian-American composer who writes traditional and cross-cultural music for chamber ensembles and orchestras like the Pittsburgh Symphony. He has also been recorded widely, most recently at the Smithsonian Museum, and has also published books on Persian traditional music.
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