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Upcoming Center Concerts in San Diego
Fall 2008 World Music Concert Series
San Diego Venues
http://www.geocities.com/darvaksd/events Saturday, September 20, 2008
8:00 pm, The Neurosciences Institute,10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr., San Diego, CA 92121. General Admission: $20, Students: $10. Information: (619) 688-0688. Support from Society of Afghan Americans, Committee for Art of the Indian Subcontinent at the San Diego Museum of Art, the Persian Cultural Center, and the Indian Fine Arts Academy of San Diego. Part of the "Performing Arts at The Neurosciences Institute" series. Saturday, September 27, 2008
8:00 pm, San Diego State University, Smith Recital Hall. General Admission: $30, Students: $10. Information: (619) 688-0688. Support from the San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.
Recent Center Concerts
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
8pm, The Neurosciences Institute,10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr. San Diego, CA 92121. General admission free. Info: (760) 822-1550. Co-sponsored by the Indian Fine Arts Academy, San Diego. Part of the "Performing Arts at The Neurosciences Institute" series Friday, March 28, 2008
Friday-Sunday, March 14-16, 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008
Friday, November 30, 2007
Friday, September 7, 2007
Music and dance from around the world, featuring Masongano (music of Africa), Alex Khalil (Chinese guqin and more), and Dornob (Persian music). Admission free! 8pm, The Neurosciences Institute,10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr. San Diego, CA 92121. This concert is presented as part of the Neurosciences Institute Performing Art Series. Masongano (pictured above) Lewis Peterman is the past Director of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at SDSU, and the current President of The Center for World Music. Since 1973 he has studied, taught, and performed traditional music from Asian and African cultures, including those of Bali, Java, Sumatra, India, Iran, China, Japan, Korea, Ghana, and Zimbabwe. Randall Griswold is a member of the music faculty at California State University San Marcos. He directs and performs in many world-music ensembles, including Javanese and Balinese gamelan and traditional music of Zimbabwe. Garit Imhoff is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts. He has performed the traditional music of Zimbabwe as well as Balinese and Javanese Gamelan at university and public venues for thirty-eight years. Alex Khalil
Dornob
A collective of musicians – now spanning two generations - Dornob have been playing Persian music in San Diego since 1985. Their goal, in addition to friendship, crossing cultural bridges, learning the music, and having fun playing music, is to make Persian music accessible to young and non-Persian audiences. Sunday, September 9, 2007
An Afternoon of Classical Chinese Melodies, with Alexander Khalil, qin (silk-stringed zither). House concert at the home of Dr. & Mrs. Lance Nelson in the College Area of San Diego. 3:30pm. Free admission. Family welcome. Light refreshments provided. Please RSVP to qinconcert@centerforworldmusic.org for details, map, and directions. Alexander Khalil holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Music Composition and Performance from the California Institute of the Arts and is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy in Music degree at UCSD. Alex has spent more than twelve years conducting research on Asian musics, particularly those of China, Japan, and Indonesia. Today he teaches world music classes at UCSD, where he also teaches the only class on Chinese guqin performance in America. Friday, September 14, 2007
Kurdish vocalist Rojan with the Pour-Nazeri Ensemble. 8pm, The Neurosciences Institute,10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr. San Diego, CA 92121. General admission $30, Students $15. Tickets/Info: (858) 653-0336
Part of The Neurosciences Institute Performing Art Series. Sponsored by the Center for World Music and the Persian Cultural Center. Friday, June 29, 2007
Groundbreaking Persian-American jazz tenor saxophonist HAFEZ MODIR collaborates with local greats Peter Sprague (guitar), Gunnar Biggs (double bass), and Duncan Moore (drums) for an evening of eclectic world jazz at the acoustically-perfect Neurosciences Institute. 8:00 p.m. The Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr, CA 92121. General admission $15, Students $10. Cosponsored with the Persian Cultural Center. For information, please call: (858) 653-0336 or (619) 688-0688. Sunday, June 3, 2007
From the Comoros Islands, mesmerizing vocalist NAWAL. Singing in Comoran, Arabic, French, and English, her music bridges traditional and contemporary--weaving a rich dialogue of cultures, where Indo-Arabian-Persian music meets Bantu polyphonies and the syncopated rhythms and Sufi trance music of the Indian Ocean. 7:30 p.m. Dizzy's, 344 Seventh Ave, San Diego, CA 92101. General admission $15, Students $10. For information, please call: (858) 270-7467 or (619) 688-0688. Thursday, May 24, 2007
Wang Peng and Ka woo hyun, playing and evening of music on the qin (Chinese silk-stringed zither) in their first-ever performance in the U.S. 8:00 p.m. The Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr, CA 92121. Admission: $12 adults, $8 CWM members, students, seniors, and children under 12. (Click on image above to download flyer.) Map and directions to Neurosciences Institute. Saturday, July 22, 2006
Kurdish vocalist Rojan with the Pour-Nazeri Ensemble. 8pm, The Neurosciences Institute,10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr. San Diego, CA 92121. General admission $30, Students $15.
Part of The Neurosciences Institute Performing Art Series. Saturday, June 24, 2006 |
An ethnomusicologist and composer who performs regularly as a chanter in the Greek Orthodox Church, Alex Khalil holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Music Composition and Performance from the California Institute of the Arts and is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy in Music degree at UCSD. Alex has spent more than twelve years conducting research on Asian musics, particularly those of China, Japan, and Indonesia. Alex served as Executive Director of the Center for World Music for three years where he administered educational programming and events in schools and universities throughout the United States. Today he teaches world music classes at UCSD, where he also teaches the only class on Chinese guqin performance in America. He directs and teaches a comprehensive music program which he developed in 2000 at the San Diego Museum School. In 2003 this program won the "Best Practices in Education Award" presented by the business roundtable for education in San Diego. 
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APRIL 28, 2006 8:00 pm A
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K. Sridhar is one of the most respected modern masters of the sarod. Two music traditions co-exist in India, that of the North (Hindustani) and of the South (Carnatic). It is very rare for musicians to master both traditions; Sridhar has done so. K. Sridhar was, from early childhood, initiated into the Carnatic music tradition by his mother, a descendant of fourteen generations of musicians including Narasimha Bhagavatar, and also the pupil of Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, the foremost specialist in the Dhrupad Dhamar style of the North. At the age of 12 Sridhar became the youngest member of Ravi Shankar's orchestra. He has given concerts world-wide, and forged exciting links with jazz, flamenco, Arabic, African, Persian and European classical musicians.
8pm, The Neurosciences Institute,10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr. San Diego, CA 92121. General $25, Students $15 at the door.
Part of The Neurosciences Institute Performing Art Series.
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Odissi Dance Festival |
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Integral Asia Japanese / Indian Crossover |
Turkish Classical Music |
Ahenk Duo |
The Grandmaster of Persian Music: |
Mohammad Reza Lotfi is recognized throughout Iran, Europe and the United States as a brilliant composer and interpreter of traditional Persian music. Born in Gorgan in northern Iran, he graduated from the College of Fine Arts at Tehran University, where he later taught and served as dean. He studied tar and setar under such great masters as Shahnazi, Boroumand, Davami, and Salehi. In the 1970s he was the director of the Center for the Preservation and Propagation of Traditional Iranian Music in Tehran and Chavoosh Conservatory. He contributed for many years to Iranian National Radio and Television and founded the group Shayda, which was instrumental in the revival of Iranian traditional music. After an extensive concert tour of Europe, he moved to the United States in 1987. In addition to performing widely throughout this country, he established the Shayda Cultural and Artistic Center in Washington D.C. to continue his teaching and scholarly activities. |
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Mondays, 7:30 |
An Evening of Persian & Kurdish Music |
"The Art of Tasnif and Chahar-Mezrab"
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International Music & Poetry Vigil |
Poets Ali Ashouri and Al Howard.
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Neyreez Ensemble & Darvak Ensemble |
Neyreez Ensemble & Darvak Ensemble |
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