Hamavayan ensemble
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Hamāvāyān Ensemble is a renowned Persian music group.
, the Hamavayan Ensemble performs new interpretations of classical Persian music.
The ensemble features male and female vocalists, tar and setar (ancient plucked lutes from Persia), and percussion.
Maestro Alizadeh's most recent recording, Endless Vision, featuring the Hamavayan Ensemble with the Armenian master duduk player Djivan Gasparyan
, was nominated for a Grammy.
History
Led by Iranian master instrumentalist and composer Hossein AlizadehHossein Alizadeh
Hossein Alizadeh , is an Iranian composer, radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and tar and setar instrumentalist and improviser, described by Allmusic as a leading Iranian classical composer and musician....
, the Hamavayan Ensemble performs new interpretations of classical Persian music.
The ensemble features male and female vocalists, tar and setar (ancient plucked lutes from Persia), and percussion.
Maestro Alizadeh's most recent recording, Endless Vision, featuring the Hamavayan Ensemble with the Armenian master duduk player Djivan Gasparyan
Djivan Gasparyan
Djivan Gasparyan is an Armenian musician and composer. He plays the duduk, a double reed woodwind instrument related to the orchestral oboe. Gasparyan is known as the Master of the duduk.-Biography:...
, was nominated for a Grammy.
Members
- Hossein Alizadeh (tarTarTar is modified pitch produced primarily from the wood and roots of pine by destructive distillation under pyrolysis. Production and trade in tar was a major contributor in the economies of Northern Europe and Colonial America. Its main use was in preserving wooden vessels against rot. The largest...
) - Afsaneh RasaeiAfsaneh RasaeiAfsaneh Rasaei is a Persian vocalist who began training with Mahmoud Karimi in 1974. After Islamic Revolution it was forbidden for women to perform in public, so all the activities of women vocalists was limited to teaching. Now Iranian women are permitted to perform in concert with men, not solo...
(vocal) - Majid Khaladj (tombak)
- Ali Boustan (setarSetarSETAR N.V., is the privatised full telecommunications service provider for the island of Aruba. The services provided by SETAR include: telephone, internet and GSM-related wireless services. SETAR also owns Tele Aruba....
) - Pouria Akhavass (vocal)
- Nima Alizadeh, robab (lute)
- Saba Alizadeh, KamanchehKamanchehThe kamānche or kamāncha is a Persian bowed string instrument related to the bowed rebab, the historical ancestor of the kamancheh and also to the bowed lira of the Byzantine Empire, ancestor of the European violin family. The strings are played with a variable-tension bow: the word "kamancheh"...
- Hossein Alizadeh, Shourangiz (new lute)
See also
- Music of IranMusic of IranThe music of Iran has thousands of years of history, as seen in the archeological documents of Elam, one of the earliest world cultures,which was located in southwestern Iran...
- Masters of Persian Music
- Mastan EnsembleMastan EnsembleThe Mastān Ensemble is an Iranian musical group performing traditional Persian music.- History :The group was founded as Hafez Ensemble in 2005 by Mr Sa'id Jafarzādeh Homāy , also known as Parvāz Homāy and Homāy Foomani...
- List of Iranian musicians