6 Oct 2011

Sepideh Raissadat’s new album “Tale of Friendship” with the compositions and performance of Tar virtuoso Iman Vaziri has been released. This album is a collection of Avaz and Tasnifs from [...]

14 May 2011

Sepideh Raissadat will perform several concerts with guest musicians, in the US in June & July 2011. These concerts will be held in New York city, Washington D.C., Los Angeles and Berkeley.

8 May 2011

Sepideh RAISSADAT AND ENSEMBLE MARAGHI
OTTOMAN AND PERSIAN MUSIC CONCERT
A musical journey through space and time with the compositions of the great Persian musician, composer and musicologist ‘Abd ul-Qadir Maragha (1360? -1435)

7 May 2011

Live streaming of Sepideh’s program in Italy with Maraghi Ensemble on Radio Rai 3 website (video & audio). Friday, May 13, 22:50 (9:50pm GMT) http://www.radio3.rai.it/dl/radio3/Page-ef2682c8-5a0e-4dc8-ad6c-acb75434fb86.html This post is also available [...]

12 Mar 2011

Sepideh Raissadat will perform two concerts with Magham Ensemble in England in May 2011. Magham ensmble is directed by Tinoush Bahrami (Tar, Setar) with the other performers being Ali Nourbakhsh (Percussion) and Arash Fayyazi (Oud).

25 Feb 2011

The trendy French cultural weekly “Les Inrockuptibles” has published a review on “14 Cheerful Pieces” Album, calling it “the euphoric return of flying Iranians” refering to the CD’s Persian title. [...]

24 Nov 2010

The reputable French cultural magazine, Télérama, has published a review of the latest album by Reza Ghassemi and Sepideh Raissadat, “14 cheerful pieces” (released in october 2010 in France by Buda Musique Records). The weekly magazine has given three (out of four) of its famous “f” (fff) to the CD, in the World Music section.

20 Oct 2010

“14 cheerful pieces (Bazparidan)“, the latest CD by Sepideh Raissadat and Reza Ghassemi (Moshtaq Ensemble) has just been released on October 25, 2010. This CD is the result of several [...]

7 Oct 2010

BBC Persian Channel aired a special program about Sepideh Raissadat’s work and activities. “Az Nazdik” (Close-up) is a 26 minute program about the life and work of contemporary singers and musicians.

2 Sep 2010

A musical journey on the footsteps of ‘Abd ul-Qâdir ‘ibn Ghaybi Marâghî (1360? – 1435): he was a musician, a composer and a musicologist who lived along the net of trade routes called ‘Silk Road’… Marâghî wrote his treatises in Persian and his heritage spanned over a vast area thanks to his sons and disciples. His compositions were particularly preserved and held in high esteem in the Ottoman world…