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A rare opportunity to see Kayhan Kalhor in an intimate setting, joined by percussionist Behrouz Jamali. A Grammy-award winning musician, composer and teacher, Kayhan Kalhor is an internationally acclaimed virtuoso on the kamancheh (spiked fiddle) and setar (lute), who through his many musical collaborations has been instrumental in popularizing Persian music in the West and is a creative force in today’s music scene. Yo-Yo Ma has called him one of the great musicians he’s ever had the privilege to know and to work with. His performances of traditional Persian music and multiple collaborations have attracted audiences around the globe. He has studied the music of Iran’s many regions, in particular those of Khorason and Kordestan, and has toured the world as a soloist with various ensembles and orchestras including the New York Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de Lyon. He is co-founder of the renowned ensembles Dastan Ensemble, Masters of Persian Music with Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Hossein Alizadeh and Homayoun Shajarian; the Persian-Indian ensemble Ghazal with Shujaat Hussain Khan and for his pioneering work with Erdal Erzincan, Rembrandt Ensemble and Toumani Diabate. Kalhor has composed works for Iran’s most renowned vocalists instrumentalists. His many commissions and recordings with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble are renowned. He has recorded over two dozen albums, most recently with Toumani Diabate on the Realworld label. Kayhan has been nominated for three Grammys and in 2017, he was awarded a Grammy with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (2017). He has composed music for television and film and was featured on the soundtrack of Francis Ford Copolla’s Youth Without Youth in a score that he collaborated on with Osvaldo Golijov as well as for many Iranian films. In 2002 he was nominated for a BBC Radio 3 World Music Award; In 2005 he was awarded the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (“German Record Critics’ Award”); five of his recordings have been nominated for Grammys and in 2017 he was awarded a Grammy. John Adams invited him to give a solo recital at Carnegie Hall in 2004 as part of his Perspectives Series and he has appeared on a double bill at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, sharing the program with the Festival Orchestra performing the Mozart Requiem. In 2018 he was awarded the prestigious Isaac Stern Human Spirit Award in Shanghai, created to recognize an individual or group - in any field and from any part of the world - who is deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to the understanding of humanity through the medium of music and in 2019 he received the prestigious Womex Artist award. "Kalhor is soulful, contemplative and beautifully moving” - NPR Music
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