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Arvin Sedaghatkish

I first met Arvin at a talk he gave comparing two pieces by contemporary Iranian composers - 'Music - Haiku' for solo piano by Ehsan Saboohi and 'Only that spark and nothing more' for solo oboe by Karen Keyhani. He talked at great length about how both composers allude to aspects of traditional Iranian music in their ...

Off the beaten taqsim

I will be giving a talk on 'Stay Close' at City University on Wednesday 23rd October 2013 at 2:45pm. This half-day conference will "focus on the work of practitioners in the Middle Eastern music scene in the urban UK...exploring the lived, eclectic experience of composers and performers in London and elsewhere. We will ...