“Pegey Roshnbiry Kurdy Ottawa”, Ottawa Kurdish Cultural Forum will be presenting! A talk and solo performance to highlight the musical heritage, there will be a brief talk about the history of Kurdish music how it has been colonized in the past century by central cultures and how the Kurdish artists were incurious about the roleRead More
The 22 annual summer festival of Canadian Kurdish Community Centre will be celebrating the Kurdish culture – for this year it is titled “Kurdish Culture and Peace Festival”, they will feature Shahriyar Jamshidi as an artist from Eastern Kurdistan Rojhelat to perform a set of his solo Kamancha and vocal during this event. Canadian KurdishRead More
Jazz Pianist Diane Roblin & Kurdish Kamanche player Shahriyar Jamshidi will be crossing musical boundaries with their new collaboration. A rare musical collaboration at Toronto’s musical heritage venue Canadian Music Centre – the Kurdish Kamānche meets the Jazz Piano to form unique voices of modern musical language. Diane Roblin Toronto’s Jazz pianist and improviser willRead More
The Music department at the University of Waterloo hosting A Noon Hour Concert. Shahriyar Jamshidi will be bringing sound of Kurdish musical heritage with his Kurdish Kamancha recital at small Chapel Space in University of Waterloo in March 2025. More details will be announced when they are available!
Shahriyar’s special Kamānche recital will be a combination of improvisation and his compositions reflecting the not-well-presented musical heritage of Kurdistan – the vast area in the West Asia that is spread among countries of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. “Pomegranate Seeds” recital would be an exceptional musical journey to echo the authentic melodies of KurdishRead More
