Skirball

Three of Persian music's most important figures present new works drawing on the rich heritage of Persian classical music and ancient Sufi and contemporary poetry.

Performing are: tar (long-necked lute) maestro Hossein Alizadeh; Kayhan Kalhor, a virtuoso of the kamancheh (spike-fiddle) who has been instrumental in popularizing Persian music in the West through solo concerts and his work with Ghazal and Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project; and Hamid Reza Nourbakhsh, a student of Mohammad Reza Shajarian and one of today's finest Iranian vocalists.

Co-presented by World Music Institute