This album is a collection of Avaz and Tasnifs from Mahour, Segah, Bayat-e Tork, Esfahan and Homayoun modes, recorded in summer 2010 in Paris, after 12 years of collaboration. The Tasnifs and rhythmic melodies of this CD are enriched by the accompaniment of Ali Rahimi’s Tombak.

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• New York City : Saturday June 18 @ 8pm

  • New York Society for Ethical Culture
    2 West 64th Street (at Central Park West), NY 10023
  • Reservation: 1-201-327-3494 or 1-201-522-7807
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• Washington D.C. : Friday June 24 @ 8pm

  • Richard J. Ernst
    Community Cultural Center
    Annandale Campus
    8333 Little River Turnpike
    Annandale, VA
    22003-3796
  • Reservation: 1-724-799-2067
    m_elyaderani@yahoo.com
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    > Carvan Deli, Gaithersburg, MD, T: 301-258-8380
    > Yas Market, Vienna, VA, T:703-242-2800
    > Shiraz Market, Vienna, VA, T: 703-992-9566

  
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Sepideh will perform the works of the great musician Abdul Ghader Maraghi, with Maraghi ensemble at the Museum of Oriental Arts of Turin (MAO), on May 12, 2011 at 9:00pm.

Museo d’Arte Orientale website :

“Sepideh RAISSADAT AND ENSEMBLE MARAGHI
OTTOMAN AND PERSIAN MUSIC CONCERT
A musical journey through space and time beginning in Samarkand with the compositions of the great Persian musician, composer and musicologist  ‘Abd ul-Qadir Maragha (1360? -1435) and, following his trail to Constantinople and the Ottoman musical tradition that that kept his tradition alive up to our days. The journey is enriched by the voice of Sepideh Raissadat, formed by the greatest representatives of the Persian classical tradition and recognized today among the most significant performers of his generation.”

Read More on MAO website

TIME : May 12, 2011 @ 9pm

LOCATION: MUSEO D’ARTE ORIENTALE

Via San Domenico 11
10122 Torino
t. 011.4436927

http://www.maotorino.it

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on the Footsteps of Abdol Ghader Marâghî

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at International Mugham Festival

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First concert will be held in London

Location: London, St. John’s Smith Square, SW1P 3HA

time: Thursday, May 5th, 2011 @ 7:30 p.m.

Ticket booking: www.sjss.org.uk or call 020 7222 1061

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CD: 14 cheerful pieces (Bazparidan) released

Extract from Télérama (n° 3176 – 27 novembre 2010):

“Une voix veloutée, aux tonalités som­bres et labyrinthi­ques… Celle d’une Iranienne du Canada, Sepi­deh Raissadat. Forgée au radif, le répertoire classique persan, elle est aussi ethnomusicologue, spécialiste des cultures préislamiques de son pays, et fut l’une des premières à se produire en duo, à une épo­que, juste après la révolution ­islamique, où les femmes ne pouvaient chanter que dans des choeurs. A la composition et au petit luth à quatre cordes setar officie un autre exilé, Reza Ghassemi, également écrivain et metteur en scène de théâtre, qui accompagna quelques grandes voix iraniennes (Sharam Nazeri) et créa l’Ensemble Moshtaq, en 1988, peu après son arrivée à Paris…”

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CD: 14 cheerful pieces (Bazparidan) released

This CD is the result of several months of distant work (mainly through the internet, skype) and concerts in Europe (Strasbourg, London and Paris). It is published by Buda Musique, an internationally renowned label in World Music edition.

Those 14 pieces are all compositions by Reza Ghassemi, a famous novelist, theatre director and musician.

This recording is in Avaz-e Bayat-e Tork and Dastgah-e Rast-Panjgah with modulations to Shur and  Esfahan (Persian classical music modes).

Technical information:

Title : 14 cheerful pieces (14 morceaux pour un redécollage)

Performers : Reza Ghassemi (Composer, Setar), Sepideh Raissadat (Vocalist, Setar), Javid Yahyazadeh (Ney), Aydin Bahramlou (Setar), Babak Moayeddodin (Setar).

Label: Buda Records – 2751810

Year: 2010

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Samples:
Vajd & Ta dami biyasayam – Sepideh Raissadat & Reza Ghassemi (Moshtaq Ensemble) by Sepideh Raissadat

You can watch it on the BBC website.

سپیده رئیس سادات – از نزدیک – بی بی سی from Sepideh Raissadat on Vimeo.

“Az Nazdik” (Close-up) is a 26 minute program about the life and work of contemporary singers and musicians.

Marâghî wrote his treatises in Persian and his heritage spanned over a vast area thanks to his sons and disciples. Particularly, his compositions were preserved and held in high esteem in the Ottoman world: in fact, by 1422 his Maqâsid al-Alhân was taken as a gift to the Ottoman court of Sultan Murad II in Bursa by his youngest son, Abdülaziz, with a caravan from Herat: Ottomans considered that as the symbolical act that gave life to their classical music tradition.

Ottoman art music from its very beginning has always been deeply linked to Sufism (tasawwuf) and its peculiar spiritual practice called samâ‘ (‘audition, listening, spiritual concert’). For some Sufi brotherhoods (tariqas), the samâ‘ became a central practice on their spiritual path: one of the best known is the one of the brotherhood mevlevîye, known in the West as ‘Whirling Dervishes’, that flourished on the teachings of Persian language Sufi poet Mevlâna Jalâl-ud-Dîn Rûmî (Balkh, 1207 – Konya, 1273). The centres of the mevlevî Dervishes (mevlevîhânes) are considered by scholars as ‘the Conservatories of the Ottoman empire’, that formed the majority of the Ottoman classical composers and musicians active between the Court and the Sufi centres. (Source: Felmay Records)

The members of Ensemble Maraghi are: Giovanni De Zorzi (Director, Nay); Sepideh Raissadat (Voice, Setar); Giovanni Tufano (Oud); Francesco Clera (Tombak, Bendir).

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