David Dalle
Thursday May 24th, 2018 with David Dalle
Kayhan Kalhor II: one of the greatest Persian musicians of his generation and a Carleton alumni. Part II, performing on the setar with Shahram Nazeri. And accordions!

Kayhan Kalhor, the peerless Kamancheh virtuoso and consummate musician and composer, will be performing in Ottawa on June 10th, this is his first appearance in Ottawa in over 2 decades! He will be performing as a setar duo with his former student Kiya Tabassian in Under the Persian Musical Sky. https://musicandbeyond.ca/event/under-the-persian-musical-sky/ Kayhan Kalhor is a Kurdish-Iranian musician who studied with the great master Mohammad Reza-Lotfi in Tehran. He also studied Western classical music right here at Carleton. He has been an extraordinary and innovative musician in Persian classical music, and this was demonstrated as a founding member of the Dastan ensemble in 1991. With Dastan he performed with some of the greatest Persian singers, but unlike the more traditional, conservative performance practice in Persian music, he put the instrumental music and composition on equal footing with the vocalists. This is demonstrated superbly in the exquisite concert recording of Dastan with Shahram Nazeri in 1997. This album also demonstrates his expertise on the Setar, as the work features the setar of Kayhan Kalhor and Hamid Motebassem and the barbat of Hossein Behroozinia. The texture of the 3 lute instruments together is extremely rich and beautiful. The main piece in the recording is a suite in Bayat-E Esfahan with songs and vocal and instrumental improvisation. One of my favourite recordings of Persian music!