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Regional Music Festival kicks off today

The 8th Regional Music Festival will open today with senior musicians from different provinces in several halls across Tehran and Kerman...

Iran`s Hallajvashan to give concert on Rumi in Paris

The Iranian ensemble Hallajvashan will be giving a concert on the Persian mystic and poet Molana Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273) at the House of World Cultures in Paris on May 24...

Tehran concerts to introduce new musical instrument

A new wind instrument, named the yasnai, will be introduced during concerts that are being organized by tar virtuoso Kayvan Saket...

Iranian musicians to perform in California

The Tambur virtuoso Ali Akbar Moradi and percussionist Pejman Haddadi will give a concert at Irvine University Community Park Center , California...

Homayun Shajarian and Pournazeri Brothers to compete in Moroccan festival

The celebrated Iranian vocalist Homayun Shajarian will perform a concert at the Festival Mawazine in Rabat, Morocco, in May and June...

Iran’s Qorbani, Kalhor to perform in Austria

Iranian vocalist Alireza Qorbani and kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor will be giving a concert at the Festival 4020 in Linz, Austria on April 27, 2013...

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Music to the ears of the post-war avant garde

Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer John Cage, who died in 1992, and the celebrations of his life showed how much he influenced—and was influenced by—some of the greats of American 20th-century art...

The Baluchi Zahirig music

The Baluchi Zahirig as a Modal Landscape and the Emergence of a Classical Music Introduction: Professional Baluchi Musicians1

An Introduction to Persian Music

The artistic gift of the Persian people has produced a staggering literary heritage, an exquisite tradition of decorative arts and handicrafts, a superb legacy in architecture, and a refined musical culture whose influence is evidence as far away as Spain and Japan.

Discovering an International Language

A Discussion: Fereydoon Nasseri and Loris Cheknavorian