IRAN: Silent City - Kalhor, Kayhan (kamancheh)

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One of Iran's most accomplished post-revolutionary instrumentalist-composers, Kayhan Kalhor is a virtuoso on the kamancheh (a bowed spike-fiddle played on the lap or kneeling on the floor). Kalhor has composed works for Iran's most renowned vocalists, Mohammed Reza Shajarian and Shahram Nazeri, and has performed with Iran's greatest masters. He has also toured the world as a soloist and with his ensembles performing Persian and Indian improvisations. He also represented Iranian music in the first annual Chicago World Music Festival in 2001. Most recently, he composed a piece for the Kronos Quartet.