Bahman Panahi (tar and setar virtuoso) and Ali Mojallal (tombak)
Free and open to all. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies with funding from Title VI National Resource Center grant.
Bahman Panahi, the youngest son of a large, cultivated family of artists, was introduced to music, painting, theatre and calligraphy through the work of his brothers and developed his own talents in the fields of music and calligraphy. To Bahman Panahi, music stands for the history of Iran, for its culture and its civilization, while calligraphy provides an image of Iranian artistic spontaneity and taste. The relationship between these two artistic domains provides a launching point for Panahi's ongoing philosophical contemplation and creative production.
Bahman Panahi studied setar and tar with such masters of Persian musicians as Houshang Zarif, Mohamad Reza Lotfi, and Ataollah Zahed Shirazi. Panahi himself obtained the title of Master from the Iranian Institute of Calligraphy under the direction of masters Gholamhosein Amirkhani, Foradi and Kaboli.
Bahman Panahi currently lives in Paris, where he performs actively and is pursuing a doctoral project entitled The Musicality of the Lines and Points at the Sorbonne.
Ali Mojallal was born in 1973 in Tehran. He started learning the tombak drum in 1992 from Farid Kheradmand. Thereafter he worked with various tombak players such as Arash Farhangfar and Siavash Akbari. But it was through working with the Master Djamshid Chemirani, in France, that he developed his own performance style.
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