Kayhan Kalhor, Iran’s foremost contemporary composer, educator, and master musician, will offer a rare evening of Persian classical music at The Town Hall on November 30 at 7pm. It will be Kalhor's ...

Grammy-winning Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor called the U.S. home for decades, until chaotic encounters with the immigration system caused him to... After U.S. Immigration Battle, Musician Kayhan ...

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The Artist Award is one of the three main awards of the festival, which is presented to those artists who have made a lasting impression in the U.S., their homeland or around the world. The Trouble ...

This is Kalhor’s second cooperation with Dormishian after his acclaimed movie “Lanturi”, a public relations team for the movie announced on Saturday. A cast of Iran’s A-list actors including Fatemeh ...

Just as in every realm of traditional Iranian art, from minutely scaled miniatures to intricate poetry to endlessly ornamented carpet weaving, the goal in Persian classical music is for both artist ...

For Persians, the New Year comes not in the dead of winter, but right at the vernal equinox. As spring renews the earth, people celebrate this fresh beginning as Nowruz, a joyous 12-day festival to ...

In an exquisite moment on Kayhan Kalhor's last recorded collaboration, The Rain (ECM, 2003), tabla player Sandeep Das hits an "out" note on his tuned drum. This momentarily shocks Kalhor and sitarist ...

Kayhan Kalhor is an Iranian kamancheh virtuoso and composer whose work has been celebrated around the globe. When Kayhan Kalhor first left Iran, at age 17, he walked — more than 2,500 miles, to Italy.

Kayhan Kalhor is an Iranian kamancheh virtuoso and composer whose work has been celebrated around the globe. When Kayhan Kalhor first left Iran, at age 17, he walked — more than 2,500 miles, to Italy.

Kayhan Kalhor is an Iranian kamancheh virtuoso and composer whose work has been celebrated around the globe. When Kayhan Kalhor first left Iran, at age 17, he walked — more than 2,500 miles, to Italy.