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MUSIC DEPARTMENT RESIDENCY

Persian Improvisations:

Kayhan Kalhor with Siamak Aghaei

Friday, JANUARY 26 • 8 pm

Rollins Chapel
$24 • Dartmouth students $5 • General admission

Scattering Stars Like Dust, featuring Kayhan Kalhor, kemancheh

Avaz-e Dashti, featuring Siamak Aghaei, santur

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Tehran-born Kayhan Kalhor celebrates Persian classical traditions with a repertory blending the elegant, warm sounds of the kemancheh (spike fiddle) with the light, glistening tones of the santur (zither/hammer dulcimer). Nominated for two Grammy Awards, Kalhor has composed works for the Kronos Quartet and Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project, and is a virtuouso on the kemancheh. He is joined by the brilliant Siamak Aghaei on the santur, ranked among the very best Iranian classical musicians of his generation. These two masters build on the ornate, intricate beauty of their form to achieve a vivid, haunting concert of “rich delicacy and power” (L.A. Weekly).