A new donation has helped secure the future for UCLA’s Iranian music program. The program will hold the first fund-supported event “Classical Persian Music: Hossein Omoumi, from Isfahan to Irvine” on ...

Hafez Modirzadeh grew up listening to Count Basie. The only Persian music he heard as a kid was the sound of his Iranian father singing in the shower. "I remember thinking it sounded beautiful and ...

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, once dubbed "the Pavarotti of Persian classical music" by the Toronto Globe & Mail, had never been known as a particularly political person. That was before the widely ...

The santur sounds out of another time. Out of place, too, in a New Haven apartment. The Persian instrument has been played for centuries. As first-year music doctoral student Hadas Bram GRD ’31 sits ...

Sahba Motallebi’s journey to the Richmond Folk Festival began in Sari, a seaside city in northern Iran, at age 11. It was there that she began to play the setar, a small four-stringed Persian ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Weaving through the rooms of my Brisbane childhood home, carried on the languid, humid, sub-tropical air, was the sound of an ...