For the mastery and virtuosity of the kamancheh, for the ceaseless innovation and collaboration to create exciting new musical languages and for bringing the Persian classical music tradition to the ...

PUTNEY — Virtuoso Kamancheh player Mehrnam Rastegari, who opened last year’s Bandwagon summer series with retro-Mediterranean surf ensemble Habbina Habbina, returns to Putney on Friday, April 18, at 7 ...

Farhad Nazari, the head of Registration of Historical Sites, told Mehrnews correspondent that the compilation on the Iranian bowed string instrument ‘Kamancheh’ has been sent to and received by the ...

"When the first notes of [the music] threaded their way into my consciousness, they seemed to come from inside me…music wound its way through me as sound turned pure sensation." —The New York Times on ...

When Iranian virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor performs Friday at Walker Art Center alongside the American chamber quartet Brooklyn Rider, the finale will be a sprawling epic titled "Silent City." Composed by ...

A total of thirty three worldwide elements were inscribed on the world body’s list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity during the 12th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the ...

The event opened with the speech delivered by an old friend of Shekarchi, Hossein Alizadeh, followed by a message from prominent writer Mahumd Dowlatabadi, and concluded with a live performance by ...

The presentation-performance event will focus on Kamancheh Spiked-fiddle one of the traditional significant music instrument in the music of Middle East and Central Asia. The event consists of two ...

Come December 6 and South Mumbai will play host to Ustad Shujaat Husain Khan (seventh generation sitarist of the Etawah gharana and son of celebrated sitar maestro, Ustad Vilayat Khan) and Iranian ...