Biography
Kayhan Kalhor & Ali Akbar Moradi’s 2004 collaboration brought together two masters of Persian music in the Kurdish tradition.
Kayhan Kalhor (Persian: كيهان كلهر) is an Iranian kamancheh player of Kurdish descent. In 2004, two of his works were nominated for Grammy Awards. Kalhor consciously pins Persian classical music structures to the rich folk modes and melodies of Northern Khorasan, the cultural heart of historic Persia and a bridge to Central Asia. Kayhan Kalhor's music speaks from an ancient Persian tradition while sounding timeless and spiritually invigorating today.
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Ali Akbar Moradi, (1957- ), is a well known Kurdish Iranian musician and composer. He was born in Kermanshah in western Iran. He started music at a very early age, and learned the Kurdish maqam repertoire and tanbur (Kurdish lute) under the supervision of Kurdish masters such as Mirza Sayyed Ali Kafashyan, Kaki Allah Morad Hamidi and Sayyed Vali Hosseyni. He gave his first recital in 1971 in Kermanshah. In 1981, he began collaborating with singer Shahram Nazeri, and performed throughout Europe and North America. He is an expert on the tanbur instrument, which is considered sacred in Kurdish sufi music. He has performed music in New York, San Francisco and London. On September 30, 2006, he gives a special program as part of Voices of Kurdistan in San Francisco World Music Festival.
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