Reza Vali's CD of chamber works “Longing” اشتیاق has won the Bârbad Award (The Iranian version of the Grammy Award) for the best western classical music. The original version of the CD was released in 2019 by the MSR Classics. The Iranian version was released last year by the Mahoor Institute of Culture and Arts. Here are the cover photos of both the Iranian and the MSR released CDs.
Composer Reza Vali will mark retirement with a pair of Persian music concerts at Carnegie Mellon
by JEREMY REYNOLDS
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Nov 2, 2022
The rhythms of Persian traditional music defy Western music notation. They’re intricate and complex and give the music a fluid sense of motion.
Persian music is also mostly improvised, or made up on the spot, according to stylistic rules.
“In a way it comes closest to jazz,” said Reza Vali, an Iranian-American composer who writes traditional and cross-cultural music for chamber ensembles and orchestras like the Pittsburgh Symphony. He has also been recorded widely, most recently at the Smithsonian Museum, and has also published books on Persian traditional music.
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