TTArt Desk - Tehran Times - Tehran, IranSaturday, September 22, 2007
Iranian setar and tar virtuoso Mohammadreza Lotfi is to give a concert in commemoration of the 800th birth anniversary of the Persian mystic and poet Molana Jalal ad-Din Rumi in London on October 28th.
Tombak and daf virtuoso Mohammad Qavihelm, who has regularly taken part in musical events with Lotfi over the past 20 years, will be accompanying him in this performance, which is scheduled to be held at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Cosponsored by the Iran Heritage Foundation, Julius Baer (Middle East) Ltd., and the Targetfollow Group Ltd., the program will comprise Lotfi’s musical expression of several pieces of Rumi’s poetry.
Lotfi, who went to the U.S.A in 1986, and resided there for 18 years, performed widely throughout Asia, Europe, and North America during that time.
He returned to live in Iran in 2005 and gave a series of outdoor concerts in Tehran’s Sadabad Cultural Historical Complex this summer, June 2007.
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