Canadian Music Centre
20 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, ON

Doors: 7:30 PM
Concert: 8:00 PM-9:30 PM

 

SHAHRIYAR JAMSHIDI will resonate a Kurdish Kamāncha recital, including Kurdish Vocal Songs, at the Canadian Music Centre. The repertoire is a collection of his new compositions.

Toronto music lovers, I am so excited to return to my favourite music stage Canadian Music Centre with lots of new music and happy to perform another solo concert presenting my new compositions and singing epic Kurdish songs in celebrating the autumn.

I would love to share my composed music which is influenced by the beauty of autumn (Payiz), and play an improvisation section that reconnects to the Kurdish modal music retelling the contemplative and poetic story of autumn in Kurdish culture – the mystical image of Payiz in Kurdish origin it is a philosophy of LIFE, highlighting its points that spread between seasons and then circulated similar to the leaves when their colours in Payiz diminished and they return to the nature. [Shahriyar Jamshidi]

“Shahriyar Jamshidi is an illustrious Kurdish Kamanche player, composer and singer with a pronounced cultural background who has devoted his artistic profession to the preservation and transmission of the Kurdish musical heritage. Shahriyar is also well-known for his creative and masterful kamānche improvisations, both as a soloist and in ensembles.”

In celebrating the diversity and equity in arts and music in Canada and all around the globe, Shahriyar reverberates his solo instrumental performances on Kamānche (spiked fiddle) to highlight Kurdish musical heritage and present a part of West and Central Asian musical culture. In his Kurdish Kamānche recital, he shares a taste of Mesopotamian culture alongside the capability of Kamānche as a soloist instrument on every stage.

Shahriyar had a successful concert and residency at the University of Glasgow last October. As well, this year he performed a concerto with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. He recently performed his solo recital at D.F Cook Hall, Memorial University featured by “Sound Symposium XXI” in St John’s. Shahriyar’s last recording My Sunset-Land Rojava is dedicated to all women who lost their lives to liberate Rojava (Western Kurdistan) in North and East Syria.”