A night of Rapture, a traditional Persian music concert featuring prominent Persian and world music artist in a very private & intimate setting. Join us for a lovely evening featuring traditional Persian melodies with transglobal sounds. Featuring Pezhham Akhavass on percussion, Amir Nojan on setar and Shourangiz, Ghazaleh Faylinejad on vocals, Jessee Sheehan on Indian Tabla and Saxophone, and very special guest artist, angelic Diana Rowan on Harp and Doug Ebert on Contrabass.
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GHAZALEH FAYLINEJAD
Vocalist
Ghazeleh is a female vocalist from Iran. Born in Iran, Ghazeleh has studied with many different persian vocalist and is an accomplished singer. In addition to music, she has studied architecture. While a student at the school of art, she began learning radife avaz or the collection of Persian suits organized by scale and melody type that form the basis for improvisation under supervision of master Persian artists. At the same time she started learning setar with Mohammed Reza Ibrahimi. Her passion towards learning Persian music and singing in particular opened doors to extremely valuable teaching sessions with a number of masters such as Ostad Hossein Alizadeh, Mohammed Reza Lotfi, Mohsen Keramati, Asghar Shahzeidi and Narbeh Cholakiyam and at last into the first grade students of Mohammed Reza Sharjarian.
PEZHHAM AKHAVASS:
Tombak/Daf
Pezhham Akhavass, is a renowned percussionist and modern day virtuoso of Persian percussive instruments Tombak and Daf. Born in 1980 in Iran, Pezhham began learning music theory at the age of 5 and later graduated with a degree in music from the Sureh University in Tehran. After studying with the modern day masters of Persian music, he began working professionally with the renowned vocalist Shahram Nazeri (dubbed the Pavarotti of Iran) from 2000-2007 where he traveled the world extensively performing in notable festivals and in the world's most prestigious venues. Pezhham has worked and recorded with major master musicians including Hossein Alizadeh, Kayhan Kalhour, Aliakbar Moradi, Saeid Farajpouri, Majid Derakhshani, Hosein Yousefzamani, Masoud Shoari, and has also performed with YoYo Ma. He now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he teaches and performs and produces concerts. www.akhavass.com
AMIR NOJAN
Setar/ Shourangiz (stringed instruments of Iran)
Amir H Nojan-Born in 1980, Shiraz, Iran. He is a graduate of Graphics. He started learning music with the Setar when he was 12. He proceeded learning the Iranian music repertoire, Tar and Setar with Master Dariush Talai from 1998. The style of playing and teaching of this great Iranian music master caused him to research about repertoire and schools of old setar player. He is proud of apprenticeship near Master Mohammad Reza Lotfi, and he was involved with analysis and review of Mirza Abdullah repertoire and Old Iranian music pieces. Amir studied with master musicians Hooshang Zarif, Jalal Zolfonoon, Masud Shoari and Behdad Babai. Among his activities he is a member of the organizer council of Fars state Music Home, establishing and directing of Nava Ensemble.
JESSE SHEEHAN
Indian Tabla/ Saxophone
Since 2001 Jesse Sheehan has had extesnsive experience playing Saxophone and Tabla professionally around the world with artists such as the Violent Femmes, Hot Buttered Rum, The Everyone Orchestra, Oliver Lake, Malachi Favors, Steve Kimoch, Dan Trudell and Melvin Seals of the Jerry Garcia Band. His interest in Hindustani and Carnatic Classical music led him to India 4 times to study Tabla with living legend Pandit Nayan Ghosh, and perform extensively with many of India’s finest musicians. Jesse holds a degree in music composition from Lewis and Clark College.
VERY SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST DIANA ROWAN
Harpist Diana Rowan’s playing has been described as having "unusual power and beauty." Born in Ireland, she lived and studied on the East Coast, in Europe and the Middle East before settling in Berkeley, California, where she received her Master of Music degree. Performing worldwide (from the Australian Harp Festival to the Smithsonian to medieval Cypriot halls), teaching and recording frequently, Diana can be heard on many CDs and soundtracks for film and TV, including her two solo albums Panta Rhei and The Bright Knowledge.
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