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Azan in Esfahan

A video of our wonderful guide, Majid, singing the Azan inside the Imam mosque in Esfahan. This vast and beautiful structure was designed specifically in order to amplify the voice of the Imam during prayer and thus Majid is amplified only by the acoustic properties of the ...

Tehran Metro

Kiawasch Saheb-Nassagh

I had the pleasure of meeting Kiawasch at the private music school 'Zang o Rang' he will soon be opening in Tehran. Kiawasch undertook much of his music education in Austria and has a particular desire to improve the standard of music education in Iran which he sees as still not able to compete on the world ...

Hooshyar Khayam

Hooshyar Khayam is a pianist and composer whose 2007 album Tatari was the first classical piano CD released in Iran since the 1979 revolution. He is part of a new generation of Iranian composers who problematise the link between tradition and identity in Iranian music, rejecting the idea that in order to project ...