TEHRAN – The Iranian traditional ensemble Dastan, which will be accompanied by vocalist Mahdieh Mohammadkhani, will begin a European tour at Théâtre Cité Bleue in Geneva, Switzerland on January 9.
Wirtschaft zum Doktorhaus in Zurich will host the ensemble on January 10 for the concert tour entitled “A Window”. The group will then perform at Kölner Philharmonie in Cologne on January 11.
RASA muziek in Utrecht, the Netherlands, will be next stop for the ensemble on January 16 and then it will leave for Paris to perform at Carré Belle-Feuille on January 17. The tour will come to an end at Schloss Münster in Germany on January 18.
The concert consists of two parts and is entitled “Song of Dastan” composed by Hossein Behruzinia and “A Window” by Hamid Motebassem.
Poems composed by the Iranian contemporary poet Forugh Farrokhzad (1935—1967) have been selected to be performed during the tour.
The members of the ensemble are Kamancheh virtuoso Saeid Farajpuri, barbat virtuoso Hossein Behruzinia, tombak players Pejman Haddadi and Behnam Samani, and tar virtuoso Hamid Motebassem.
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