Attending the ISME 33rd World Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan,
was out of my imagination until the last hour of the conference
registration deadline when I heard the positive result of
the Award I applied for. In the remarkable five days of multidisciplinary
music education conference which was held in the
gate of Central Asia just in the North of Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan,
the young country with ancient culture, I found countless
events from traditional to modern performances in a wide
range of stage activities including educational meetings, several
productive speeches and community engagements. I am thrilled
to be granted the World Conference Sponsored Delegate award
2018 from ISME board. As a Kurdish-Iranian-Canadian, I was
the only person from Kurdistan and Iranian music community
attending this significant music education conference in Near
East. I performed the Kamanche (Four-Stringed-Spiked-Fiddle)
recital at the Baku Music Academy, there was a reunifying moment
to concentrate on my life-long exploration on Kurdish ethnic
music on Kamanche.