Erarta museum to host Persian music concert

TEHRAN -- The Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg will be playing host to a concert of contemporary Persian music on November 23.

 

The concert will be performed in two parts by the In Corpore String Quartet and Carpe Diem String Quartet, Erarta, which is the largest private museum of contemporary art in Russia, has announced on its website.

 

Works by famous Iranian composers of different generations have been selected for the program.

 

Hormoz Farhat’s “String Quartet No. 1” (1953), Amir Bakan’s “Delirium” (2014) and Amir Mahyar Tafreshipur’s “Broken Times” (2011) will be performed in the first part.

 

The second part will include Shahin Farhat’s “String Quartet No. 4” (2010) and Fuzieh Majd’s “Dreamland” (2006).

 

According to Erarta, most of the pieces will be performed in Russia for the first time and the composers will personally be present at the concert.

 

“Performing the pieces at the museum in St. Petersburg is a credit to Persian music,” Shahin Farhat told the Persian service of ILNA on Monday.

 

“I am happy hearing that the pieces will be performed at the museum, because I believe that the performance will be of high quality,” he added.

 

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