Birth name Kayhan Kalhor Name Kayhan Kalhor Years active 1973–present | Origin Kermanshah, Iran | |
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Born November 24, 1963 (age 60) Kermanshah, Iran ( 1963-11-24 ) Genres Traditional Iranian MusicKurdish Music Occupation(s) Professional Kamancheh player, Composer Role Composer · kayhankalhor.net Albums Silent City, The Wind, Scattering Stars Like Dust, Bi To Besar Nemishavad, Night - Silence - Desert Profiles | ||
Kayhan kalhor i will not stand alone
Kayhan Kalhor (Persian: كيهان كلهر, Central Kurdish: کەیھان کەلھور; also Romanized as Keyhan Kalhor and Keyhān Kalhor) (born 24 November, 1963 in Kermanshah, Iran) is an Iranian Kamancheh player, composer and master of classical Kurdish and Iranian traditional music.
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- Kayhan kalhor i will not stand alone
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- Early Life Education
- Career
- Discography
- References
Kayhan kalhor erdal erzincan berlin philharmonie april 19 2013
Early Life & Education
Kayhan Kalhor was born in Kermanshah to a Kurdish family and grew up in Tehran. He began studying music at the age of seven. By the age of thirteen, he was playing in the National Orchestra of Radio and Television of Iran. Continuing his music studies under various teachers, he studied in the Persian radif tradition and also travelled to study in the northern part of Khorasan province, where music traditions have Kurdish and Turkic influences as well as Persian. At a musical conservatory in Tehran, while aged around 20 years, Kalhor worked under the directorship of Mohammad-Reza Lotfi who is from the north-east of Iran. Kalhor also travelled in the northwestern provinces of Iran. He later moved to Rome and Ottawa to study European classical music. He is a graduate of the music program at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
Career
Kayhan Kalhor has a wide range of musical influences, uses several musical instruments, and crosses cultural borders with his work, but at his center he is an intense player of the Iranian violin. In his playing Kalhor often pins Iranian classical music structures to the rich folk modes and melodies of the Kurdish tradition of Iran.
Kalhor has composed works for and played alongside the famous Iranian vocalists Mohammad Reza Shajarian and Shahram Nazeri. He has also composed and performed with the Indian sitar player Shujaat Husain Khan and Indian tabla player Swapan Chaudhuri in the group Ghazal. Kalhor's 2004 album In the mirror of the Sky was a joint venture with the Kurdish Iranian lute player Ali Akbar Moradi. His 2006 album The Wind is a collaboration with the Turkish baglama virtuoso Erdal Erzincan, with both Turkish and Persian pieces performed. At other times Kalhor has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project Ensemble in the USA and the Kronos Quartet.
Kalhor now resides in USA and has been commercially successful in USA over the past decade. Two of his works were nominated for Grammy Awards in 2004.
In 2010 Kalhor composed "I was there", which was based "on a melody attributed to Ziryab, a ninth-century Persian Kurdish musician", for a Maya Beiser concert. This piece was performed by Kalhor alongside Maya Beiser, the renowned cellist Bassam Saba, an oud player, and two percussionists, Glen Velez and Matt Kilmer.
Discography
† Nominated for a Grammy Award
§ Won a Grammy Award