A Platform for Ethnically and Culturally Inspired Music
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Shahriyar Jamshidi, a Kurdish Kamāncheh player, composer, vocalist, founder of the Dilan Chamber Ensemble, and member of Kamancello, is a graduate of Tehran University of Art and a former artist-in-residence at Banff Centre.
Shahriyar has devoted his artistic career to the preservation and transmission of the Kurdish musical heritage. An illustrious Kurdish Kamānche player with a pronounced cultural background, he is also well-known for his creative and masterful kamānche improvisations, both as a soloist and in ensembles.
He has performed at numerous Iranian music venues, including Roudaki Hall, and has been invited for interviews and live performances on several radio and TV channels, including Kurdistan TV, The Voice of America Kurdish, and CBC.
Since settling in Canada in 2012, Shahriyar has consistently sought new musical languages, thereby crossing cultures with his Kamancheh recitals. He has performed at the International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) in Switzerland and Canada; High-Fest in Armenia; Festival du Monde Arabe de Montréal; Ontario Contact; the 33rd World Conference of the International Society for Music Education in Azerbaijan; the University of Minneapolis School of Music in the United States; the Cello Biennial in the Netherlands; the Canadian Opera Company; and the Windsor Symphony Orchestra.
Shahriyar's past releases include five solo albums (Alvanati; Call of the Mountains; A Yellow Flower; The Lullaby of a Nomad; and My Sunset-Land ROJAVA) as well as Meet Me in Tangier; Kamancello; Voyage; and Of Shadows.
Shahriyar has devoted his artistic career to the preservation and transmission of the Kurdish musical heritage. An illustrious Kurdish Kamānche player with a pronounced cultural background, he is also well-known for his creative and masterful kamānche improvisations, both as a soloist and in ensembles.
He has performed at numerous Iranian music venues, including Roudaki Hall, and has been invited for interviews and live performances on several radio and TV channels, including Kurdistan TV, The Voice of America Kurdish, and CBC.
Since settling in Canada in 2012, Shahriyar has consistently sought new musical languages, thereby crossing cultures with his Kamancheh recitals. He has performed at the International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) in Switzerland and Canada; High-Fest in Armenia; Festival du Monde Arabe de Montréal; Ontario Contact; the 33rd World Conference of the International Society for Music Education in Azerbaijan; the University of Minneapolis School of Music in the United States; the Cello Biennial in the Netherlands; the Canadian Opera Company; and the Windsor Symphony Orchestra.
Shahriyar's past releases include five solo albums (Alvanati; Call of the Mountains; A Yellow Flower; The Lullaby of a Nomad; and My Sunset-Land ROJAVA) as well as Meet Me in Tangier; Kamancello; Voyage; and Of Shadows.
