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Lili Afshar
The Washington Post has called Lili Afshar as a great
perfect performer.
She
started learning guitar since she was a child. After finishing the
Music Academy on 1977, she moved to United States and received her
B.A in music from Boston Music Conservatoire and her M.A in playing
guitar from New England Music Conservatoire. She is the first lady
guitar player who has achieved her PhD of music. Lili Afshar has won
many international prizes through her artistic life such as: the
grand prize of U.S.A Classical Guitar Foundation Competition,
premium prize of Spanish Music Guitar Competition, first prizes of
guitar competitions of Music Masters National Society, American
String Instrument Masters Society, Music Soloists Society and the
prize for the best guitar player. Dr. Lili Afshar obtained her
professor seat in Memphis University on the year 2000. She has been
directing the B.A and M.A programs on guitar playing for more than
14 years. Performing concerts in reputable music halls of Europe,
Asia, North and South America, Africa and Australia and different
master classes has engaged her busy. In the past recent years she
has been performing master classes other than concerts for the
interesteds of classical guitar in Iran. This year her recital will
be on June 14 and 15 in the Khalij-e-Fars hall of Niavaran Cultural
Center at 6:30 pm.
David Gomez will play
Spanish and Latino American music for piano in Niavaran Cultural
Center
The Spanish pianist,
David Gomez will perform a piano recital in the Khalij-e-Fars hall
of Niavaran Cultural Center (related to the Artistic Deputy of
Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance). The 34 years old David
Gomez whom his first album "Piazzolla, tango for piano" was well
received in Europe, and his new album containing melodies of the
Cuban composer "Lecuona" will soon be on the record markets, will
play pieces of Piazzolla, Turina, Granados, Ponce and Lecuona. He
has joined in two tours to ten Asian countries such as India,
Philippines, Japan and Thailand and has been selected as the top
piano performer in the world's most reputable music festivals like
"Miguel Ballester I Serra", "Pio Tur", "New Art 97" and "Doelen
Competition" in Holland and…
Gomez has had successful
presentations in Dublin National Concert, Radio of Poland, the ninth
International Festival of Black & White Piano in Mexico city, the
president palace in Honduras, Manchester, Push kin Museum in Moscow,
Madrid, Athens, Cairo Opera and many other countries.
It is notable that the embassy of
Spain in cooperation with Niavaran Cultural Center will present the
piano recital of David Gomez in Khalij-e-Fars hall of Niavaran
Cultural Center on June 8 and 9, 2007 at 6:30 pm.
Reciting & Narration of Shahnameh, and Music Performance
On the
commemoration of Ferdowsi will be performed on Monday through
Wednesday
May 14 – 16, 2007
in
Khalij-e-Fars Hall of Niavaran Cultural Center.
Ham Ava group will perform three of the main stories of this great
epic masterpiece by the melodies of music. "Wedding of Zal &
Rudabeh", "Wedding of Rostam & Tahmineh" and "Rostam & Sohrab's
battle" are the three pieces which will be performed in this
ceremony.
Puppet show of "Sinbad" the sailor will go on stage in Niavaran
Cultural Center
The play is written by Maryam Taymuri & directed in cooperation with
Vahid Shakeri & Fatemeh Samani. "Sinbad the Sailor" is one of the
best selected works of Tehran's Puppet Biennale (UNIMA). On
September 2006, it was on stage in "Theatr-e-Shahr" (City Theatre)
and now it's going to be played for children and school students in
Niavaran Cultural Center. Hamed Jafarikia, Samand Jafarizad, Naser
Najafian, Mohammad Shayan, Fatemeh Samani, Roya Raad, Neda Farmani,
Nilufar Taheri, Fatemeh Moshtagh, Soheila Bajelan, Maryam Jamalifar,
Sahel Izadpanah and Parastu Ghaed Rahmat are the puppeteers of this
show. Vahid Shakeri has design and made the puppets.
In the brochure of the show there has been shortly pointed out that
"Sinbad the Sailor" has been the prisoner of a dragon in an island
and is waiting for people to rescue him. A group of people in greed
of wresting the spelled stone called "Gooharan" are heading the Holy
Island after a man named Saman and in the way of this trip, there
happens to happen strange adventures, but…
On Friday May 25 at 3:00 pm,
Raphael Minaskanian plays in the main hall of Niavaran Cultural
Center (related to the
artistic deputy of Ministry of Culture and Guidance). Minaskanian
will play some pieces from Beethoven, Chopin, Baroque and Melik
Aslanian in this program. He has started learning music when he was
6 years old. When he was just a young man he performed his first
recital in T.V.
Emanuel Melik Aslanian in Iran, Carl
Olrish Schnal in Italy and Ilona Kakabush in London were his masters
of piano.
Minaskanian is a graduated of
Julliard Music Academy in New York and right now he teaches in the
University of Tehran.
Payam Jahanmani's concert
In Niavaran Cultural Center
On Thursday and Friday May 24 & 25 at 7:00 pm,
Payam Jahanmani will perform in the main hall of Niavaran Cultural
Center (related to the artistic deputy of Ministry of Culture and
Guidance). In this Persian music program he will play the tar and
Hesam Inanlo plays the Kamancheh while Behzad Mirzaee plays the
Tombak. Jahanmani is one of the distinguished students of the famous
master of tar, Hossein Alizadeh. This will be Payam's third concert
in the last 4 years in Niavaran Cultural Center.
News
May 23, 2007
Loris Cheknavorian, Dr. Khaleghi Motlagh, Alireza Shojapur and Dr.
Morteza Kakhi attended in the first day of the Commemoration of
Ferdowsi in Niavaran
Cultural Center
The identity and integrity of Iran is indebt of Ferdowsi
The first day of the three day commemoration of Ferdowsi was started
in Niavaran Cultural Center's Khalij-e-Fars Hall while some guests
could not find free seats, on Monday, May 16.
The program started with Shahnameh recitation of 6 years old Anahita
Amiraftab and 5/5 years old Shayan Azhdari and continued with the
beats of Zoorkhaneh and narration of Morshed Rezaee. Alireza
Shojapur, the Shahnameh researcher and the director of Shahnameh
recitations of Niavaran Cultural Center (every Monday at 4:00pm)
admired the unique poet of the land of Persia for his great effort
for abiding the Persian ancient language by reading a summary of
Shahnameh addressing to Ferdowsi and talked about his epic piece of
art. Dr. Jalal Khaleghi Motlagh, the distinguished Iranian Shahnameh
researcher and resident of England, who was delighted by Anahita and
Shayan's recitations, said: "This was an honor for me to see and
watch these young children of Iran knowing and reciting these poems
so fluently and correct and it encourages me that one day we will
return to our identity and language and will value Ferdowsi as a
national paragon". He emphasized that: "Iran owes its identity and
historical and cultural integrity to Ferdowsi and one must be proud
to have a poet such as him.
He then pointed to the "moment creating and originating" in
Shahnameh and said: There are thrilling and pure moments in
Shahnameh which dramatizes the narration and emotionalizes the
reader and the listener such as "The battle of Rostam and the
Dragon", "Fall of Siavash", "Leaning of Behzad (Siavash's horse) to
Kaykhosro, "Fall of Esfandiar", "Fall of Rostam" and the "Tale of
Barbad".
Khaleghi Motlagh objected that there have been pieces of literature
added to the Shahnameh. For example he mentioned that in recent
years there has been a negative illusion of "Esfandiar", yet
practically there is no way for him to be so. Those whom think of
"Esfandiar" as a negative personality have never read the book.
Accusing him of bad behavior and lying, is not harmonious with
Shahnameh.
In Shahnameh, people do not perform commemoration for liars, though,
you see that Iranians mourn every year for "Esfandiar"'s falling
commemoration.
Loris Cheknavorian, the distinguished composer of our country made a
short speech saying: "My mother turned to Iran because of the
Massacre of the Armenians and my father did so because of Stalin's
jails and I was born in Lorestan. Today, I am proud of being a
Persian. I have been a Persian for 2500 years, since the era of
Koroush when all these areas were Iran's territory and one of the
kings of that kingdom was Armenia's.
He said: my parents and I loved this book since I was a little
child. So when my studies were finished in Austria and the Minister
of Culture of the time asked me and my colleagues to come back to
Iran, I made a request and it was the recommendation of composing
the opera of "Rostam and Sohrab". I was young and aspired like
Sohrab and everyone stated that it was impossible. For two years I
was looking for an original copy. My hard effort toke 25 years until
I grew old as Rostam of Shahnameh and my aspiration was conceived
and I composed eight versions of the opera which waited 16 years in
my drawer for performance.
Cheknavorian recalled Shahnameh inclusive of great and incredible
tales and mentioned that only Shakespeare would have written such a
dramatic and tragic story. He emphasized that "Ferdowsi has risen
from Iran and he belongs to the whole world".
Dr. Morteza Kakhi was one of the other distinguished speakers of
this commemoration who designated that in Boston, there is a wall in
front of Harvard University where the names of the noble
personalities whom have effected the human civilization is written,
there beside names such as Plato and Aristotle, only one name of a
poet from east is mentioned and that name is "Ferdowsi".
The first day of the three days commemoration of "Ferdowsi" was
completed by the story of "Zal and Rudabeh"'s wedding which was
performed by Hamava Ensemble directed by Mahdi Namdar.
The commemoration of Ferdowsi will continue until Wednesday May 16.
Puppet show of "Sinbad" the sailor will go on stage in Niavaran
Cultural Center
The play is written by Maryam Taymuri & directed in cooperation with
Vahid Shakeri & Fatemeh Samani. "Sinbad the Sailor" is one of the
best selected works of Tehran's Puppet Biennale (UNIMA). On
September 2006, it was on stage in "Theatr-e-Shahr" (City Theatre)
and now it's going to be played for children and school students in
Niavaran Cultural Center. Hamed Jafarikia, Samand Jafarizad, Naser
Najafian, Mohammad Shayan, Fatemeh Samani, Roya Raad, Neda Farmani,
Nilufar Taheri, Fatemeh Moshtagh, Soheila Bajelan, Maryam Jamalifar,
Sahel Izadpanah and Parastu Ghaed Rahmat are the puppeteers of this
show. Vahid Shakeri has design and made the puppets.
In the brochure of the show there has been shortly pointed out that
"Sinbad the Sailor" has been the prisoner of a dragon in an island
and is waiting for people to rescue him. A group of people in greed
of wresting the spelled stone called "Gooharan" are heading the Holy
Island after a man named Saman and in the way of this trip, there
happens to happen strange adventures, but…
Reciting & Narration of Shahnameh, and Music Performance
On the commemoration of Ferdowsi will be performed on Monday through
Wednesday
May 14 – 16, 2007
in
Khalij-e-Fars Hall of Niavaran Cultural Center.
Ham Ava group will perform three of the main stories of this great
epic masterpiece by the melodies of music. "Wedding of Zal &
Rudabeh", "Wedding of Rostam & Tahmineh" and "Rostam & Sohrab's
battle" are the three pieces which will be performed in this
ceremony.
Piano Recital by Bahareh Komaee
Niavaran Cultural Center
On May 3 & 4 at 6:30 pm a piano
recital will be performed by Bahareh Komaee in the Khalij-e-Fars
Hall of Niavaran Cultural Center.
In this concert, Komaee will play
classic pieces. In her list, 4 pieces of "Italian Concerto" composed
by "Johan Sebastian Bach", 5 pieces of "Vienna Carnival, Op. 26"
composed by "Robert Schumann", 2 parts of "Frantz List" and 3 of the
most romantic "Nocturnes" of "Fredrick Chopin" are to be performed.
Komaee has started playing the piano
under Dr. Mehran Rohani's supervision. She continued with Hynoush
Markarian and had the opportunity to present in Gerhard Gertchlger,
the music master of Conservative of Vienna's master classes.
She has performed several concerts in
Tehran's reputable concert halls.
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