Theater

Hossein Alizadeh, the outstanding Iranian composer and virtuoso on the long-necked lute instruments tar and setar, is considered one of Iran's most cosmopolitan musicians. In his impressive career as a soloist, researcher and influential teacher, as well as through his compositions that have touched and inspired people inside and outside Iran for decades, he has significantly influenced the sound of contemporary Persian classical music and opened its path to world music. This is evidenced by numerous projects with artists from India, Azerbaijan, Armenia and many other musical traditions.

With the Hamavayan Ensemble, which he founded in 1998, Hossein Alizadeh now brings to Europe a programme of new compositions, which also features the new generation of musicians in Iran and virtuosically displays the vibrancy of the tradition and its continuation in the present. The vocal pieces are compositions by Hossein Alizadeh on texts from classical as well as contemporary Persian poetry, and this programme, too, will provide plenty of space for the art of improvisation - an essential part of Persian music.

Zohre Gholipour: Vocals
Mehdi Emami: Vocals
Behnam Samani: Tombak, Percussion
Houshmand Ebadi: Ney
Saba Alizadeh: Kamancheh
Parisa Pooladian: Robab
Ali Boustan: Setar
Hossein Alizadeh: Tar, Shurangiz