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Instruments
  
Kamancheh

Website
  
shahriyarjamshidi.com

Instrument
  
Kamancheh

Years active
  
1990–present

Genre
  
Music of Iran

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Genres
  
Kurdish Music Traditional Iranian Music

Occupation(s)
  
Kamancheh player and Composer

Record labels
  
Contemporary Kurdish Music, Call of the Mountains

Albums
  
A Yellow Flower, Call of the Mountains

Similar
  
Mojtaba Mirzadeh, Ardeshir Kamkar, Hossein Behroozinia, Saeed Farajpouri, Ahmad Pejman

Nazanini kurd roodaki hall dilan ensemble 2004


Shahriyar Jamshidi (born 1971) is a Kurdish Iranian Kamancheh player and composer. His focus is mainly on Kurdish and Iranian music.

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Life

Shahriyar was born to a Kurdish family in Kermanshah. Due to limitations following the Iranian Revolution in 1978, he was not able to study music until age 17. He received private music lessons under the supervision of Mahmoud Merati for two years before studying music at Tehran University of Art. In Tehran he continued his music studies under various teachers including Ahmad Pejman, Houshang Kamkar, Ardeshir Kamkar and Taghi Binesh. He also worked under the directorship of the well known Kurdish Kamancheh player Mojtaba Mirzadeh.

Works

  • Jamshidi has been working individually and with different groups including Chakad Ensemble under the direction of Alireza Javaheri to collaborate with Bahman Rajabi at Farabi Hall in 2000.
  • He established the Dilan Ensemble in 2003.
  • He has performed at Roudaki Hall and in several Iranian cities.
  • He has been participating twice as a solo Kamanche performer at International Security for Improvised Music Conference in Château-d'Œx, Switzerland and Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada.
  • He have had performance at Tirgan Festival twice in 2013 and 2015.
  • Jamshidi is also as a co-founder and performer of Kamancello duo has performed at Festival du Monde Arabe de Montréal in 2015.
  • Dilan ensemble has performed at High-Fest Festival in Yerevan, Armenia in 2015.
  • He had musical collaboration with Richard Robeson to record his album Meet me in Tangier in 2016.
  • He participated in Ontario Contact Conference.
  • Jamshidi attended the Banff Musicians in Residence program at Banff Centre in winter 2017.
  • Discography

    His most renowned works are:

  • Alvanati (2004)
  • Call of the mountain (2008)
  • A Yellow Flower (2014): This album was the Kamanche chamber ensemble and the selection of Kurdish poet Abdulla Pashew's works which was dedicated to the people of Kobani.
  • Songs

    Kamanche SoloA Yellow Flower · 2014
    A Kurdish GirlA Yellow Flower · 2014
    A Yellow FlowerA Yellow Flower · 2014

    References

    Shahriyar Jamshidi Wikipedia


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