Ostad Faramarz Payvar died in 9 December 2009. He was a santur player, composer, director and is considered the ‘father of santur’ for his immense contribution to the development of techniques of santur. His contribution has not been limited to repertoire of santur however. He still ranks one in compiling and publishing scores of himself and works of his predecessors.
This program consisted of some the oldest, newest and most stylistic works of Payvar for solo santur and ensemble. All arrangements were by Mehdi Rezania for a santur, tar, tombak, violin, violoncello and vocal.
Dr. Reza Moridi, the Member of Parliament from Richmondhill passed a legislation in 2008 that in Ontario “Nowruz” is officially the first day of spring.
To commemorate this day and celebrate on Monday 08 February 2009 a celebration was held in Parliament Building (1 Queen’s Park, Toronto) and some of professional Persian artists (including Alijan Alijanpour, Gholam Hossein Nami, Dr. Reza Baraheni) were invited to exhibit or perform their art.
Baarbad Music was privileged to be invited by Dr. Moridi to represent Persian Classical Music. Duet of santur & tombak was performed by Mehdi Rezania and Araz Pashayee.
Title: “Meditations In Mahur” – A New Sound of Ancient Music Date: 8 November 2009 Location: Glenn Gould Studio (250 Front Street West)
The program included compositions and arrangements based on radif of Persian Classical Music by Mehdi Rezania and also free compositions based on poetry of Ahmad Shamlu. It was first written for a santur & string quartet and vocal then an euphonium, a violin and a daf was added.
Performers:
Mehdi Rezania, santur & music director
Farshid Meshkinfam, vocal
Kousha Nakhaie, violin 1
Miriam Marling, violin 2
Rebecca Bruton, violin 2
Kate Hudson, viola
Mariel Gonzalez, violoncello
Eugene Belianski, euphonium
Babak Divani, daf
Sasan Ghahreman, poetry recitor
Toloe Roushenas, conductor
This performance was on July 2008 in Yeki Bud Yeki Nabud Festival at Harbourfront Centre Program was a 45 minutes collection of Kurdish Folklore Music. It was broad casted from WWW.ciut.fm after a live interview with Mehdi & Kusha.
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Kurdish Folklore Music at Toronto Center for the Arts (16 Feb 2008)
A collection of Kurdish Folklore Music by:
taher Towfiq, Mohammad Mamle, Hassan Zirak,
Naser Razazi and other well-known Kurdish musicians with new arrangements of
“Kamkars”& “Baarbad Music Ensemble”.
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In pursuing the goal of promoting music especially the traditional music, “Baarbad Music” is presenting “Kurdish Folklore Music” concert.
Kurdish folklore music is one the richest and oldest folklore music with over 2500 years of history. Kurdistan with its high mountains, hard to cross passes, rivers running in deep valleys, cold winters, and mild summers have made it hard for assailers to attack the land. Therefore its music and language have not been altered like many other Aryan lands.
Folklore music is the root of traditional music in the east. It has remained and passed over generations and it is still a great part of their culture and heritage.
With a selection of cheerful and dynamic folklore music of Kurdistan, Baarbad Music attempts to attract more people to the art of traditional music and strongly oppose the saying of “traditional music is sad”.
Tickets: 25$ (In Advance) at “Pegah Book Store”, “Kurdish House”, “Nawzar Meat Market”, “Korosh Market”, “Shawrak Music Center” and Ticket master (www.ticketmaster.ca)
30$ (At Door)
Info: www.tocentre.com
Name: “In Search of Baarbad”
Program: Persical Classical, Fusion, Western Classical
Place: “North York Central Library”
Date: “06 May 2006″
Performers:
Bassam Shahouk, ud (Music Professor at York University)
Peter gowdy, ud
Mehdi Rezania, santur
Arsalan Alizadeh, tar , barbat, tombak
Soraya Jahanbakhsh, vocal
Toloe Roushenas, piano
Taraneh Azima, piano
Robert Gill Theatre (University of Toronto)
