One ensemble and three artists from Iran are among the winners of the fall edition of the Classical Music Stars Competition ...

By 1960, he had become a prominent figure in classical Persian music in Iran. Shajarian focused on Persian folk, classical and traditional styles of music, and after college dedicated himself to ...

An important distinction between Western classical music and Iranian music is the differences in their structure of developing melody, as well as their storytelling approaches, Paranj said. Likewise, ...

Young Iranian musician Parvaz Homay draws on classical Persian music and poetry, but he offers his own interpretations and also writes original lyrics that have disturbed government officials to the ...

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So the teenage Shajarian took music lessons in secret.He began his singing career in 1959 and sang publicly for the first time on a state radio station in his hometown of Mashhad, in northeastern Iran ...

In late 2020, Azar Mohebbi Tehrani passed away at the age of 73, due to complications that arose from contracting COVID. It’s a piece of news that barely made a blip in mainstream Western media, but ...

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Listen to series host and podcast contributor Megan Vahdat sit down with the director of UCLA’s Iranian music program, Dr. Shahab Paranj, to discuss the importance of sharing traditional Iranian music ...

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

An iconic figure in the struggle of Iranian women for freedom of expression, Mahsa Vahdat is an internationally acclaimed singer living in exile in the Bay Area. With her enchanting voice deeply ...