Program

Santoor and Percussion Ensemble

Directed by Pejman Hadadi

• Kurdish Folk Melody
• Yek Choobeh Reng               

Advanced Tombak Ensemble

Directed by Pejman Hadadi

• Improvisation and Composition for Tombak, by Pejman Hadadi

Iranian Ensemble
Directed by Shahab Paranj

• Mihan
Jalili Andalibi

• Khazan
Parviz Meshkatian

• Āvāz-e Dashtestani
Āvaz model Gholamreza Dadbeh

• Bahare Delkash
Darvish Khan

• Wounded Harp
Shahab Paranj

• Desra Belahilgir
Kamkar Ensemble

Performers:

Iranian Music Ensemble:

Pejman Hadadi
Naghmeh Sarang
Daisy Faragher
Yaron Cherniak
Michael Aboutboul
Ezra Hapner
Sirvan Manhoobi

Shahab Paranj

Santoor:

Francheska Privalova

Nova Akhavan

Sofi Ghasemzadeh

Natalie Tabibian

Tombak:

Sam Behboodi

Nathan Kobe Darougar

Justin Heravi

Aaron Yamin

Kaila Hemmatyar

Tess Ebrahimi-Homayun

Daisy Faragher

Ezra Hapner

Jordan Casciato

Megan Vahdat

Mahsa pashaei

Emily Wong

Talia Davood

Brandon Melamed
Soheil Nadimi

Second Tombak ensemble:
Pejman Hadadi

Ashkaan Kashani

Poone’ Haghani

Erisa Taghizadeh

Nic Hendifar

Sepanta Theo Dehghan

Auriana Gharibshahi

This concert is made possible thanks to generous support from the Farhang Foundation and The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Departments of Ethnomusicology and Music.