Western music listeners may not be quick to conjure a connection with Iran and improvised music but there is much spontaneity across genres throughout the Central Asian region. One of the few artists ...

For the mastery and virtuosity of the kamancheh, for the ceaseless innovation and collaboration to create exciting new musical languages and for bringing the Persian classical music tradition to the ...

Western music listeners may not be quick to conjure a connection with Iran and improvised music but there is much spontaneity across genres throughout the Central Asian region. One of the few artists ...

For Persians, the New Year comes not in the dead of winter, but right at the vernal equinox. As spring renews the earth, people celebrate this fresh beginning as Nowruz, a joyous 12-day festival to ...

Centuries before the Roman Empire ruled much of Europe and the Near East, Persia was the civilization at the center of the world, influencing neighboring peoples from the Greeks and Israelites to the ...

Kayhan Kalhor has spent much of his adult life introducing Western audiences to the seductive subtleties of Iranian music. An unsurpassed master of the kamancheh, the ancient four-string Persian ...

Kayhan Kalhor is an Iranian kamancheh virtuoso and composer whose work has been celebrated around the globe. When Kayhan Kalhor first left Iran, at age 17, he walked — more than 2,500 miles, to Italy.

KAYHAN KALHOR is a master musician in the tradition of Persian Art Music. He was also trained in Western Classical Music and likes to combine Persian music with other forms, such as Hindustani, in his ...