World Routes London Jazz Festival 2011 World Routes: Kayhan Kalhor with Madjid Khaladj, Hossein Alishapoor and Ali Bahramifard
London Jazz Festival 2011: Lucy Duran introduces a concert from the Purcell Room on London's South Bank given by Iranian kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor. Kayhan Kalhor is one of Iran's foremost classical musicians. He was born in Teheran in 1963, and studied the kamanche, a Persian bowed string instrument, from an early age. By the time he was thirteen he was performing with the National Orchestra of Radio and Television of Iran, and he later travelled to Italy and Canada to study western classical music. Now settled in the USA, he has performed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kronos Quartet, and given solo concerts across the globe. For this concert he is joined by celebrated percussion artist Madjid Khaladj, with accompanying musicians Hossein Alishapoor and Ali Bahramifard.
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World Routes—London Jazz Festival 2011
Lucy Duran presents a concert given by Iranian kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor.
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