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Dr. Shahab Paranj (Persian شهاب پارنج) (born April 17, 1983, Tehran) is an Iranian-American composer and instrumentalist based in Los Angeles.He is considered one of the pioneers among his generation of composers whose composition style integrates Persian and Western composition techniques.
Ehsan Yarshater (2011) Ehsan Yarshater (Persian: احسان يارشاطر; April 3, 1920 – September 1, 2018) [2] was an Iranian historian and linguist who specialized in Iranology.
Hossein Omoumi (born 1944) [1] is an Iranian-born master musician of the ney (reed flute), [2] composer, [3] scholar, and teacher of Persian traditional music.He is the Maseeh Professor in Persian Performing Arts in the department of music within the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).
University of California, Los Angeles [ edit ] An Iranian studies program was created at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1963 in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) that was established by Wolf Leslau a few years before, in 1959.
Manoochehr Sadeghi (born April 13, 1938) is a Persian-American naturalized citizen, born in Tehran, Iran. He is considered an ustad (grand master) of the santur , a Persian hammered dulcimer . He has been lecturing, teaching, recording and performing Persian classical music on the santur professionally for over 50 years.
Majid Naficy (Persian: مجید نفیسی; born February 22, 1952), also spelled "Majid Nafisi" and "Madjid Nafissi", is an Iranian-American poet.He was the youngest member of the literary circle Jong-e Isfahan and was considered the Arthur Rimbaud of Persian poetry in the late 1960s in Iran. [2]
The Lian Ensemble... World Class Persian Musicians. New sound Music; Gifted World Music Group. Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times; Best World Music/ Recombinant Artist LAWMA 2004 & 2005, By John Payne LA WEEKLY "The Lian Ensemble's concert was an exhilarating highlight of the triannual World Festival of Sacred Music" Laurel Fishman, GRAMMY.com
A Persian community developed in Westwood, Los Angeles after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 prompted thousands of Iranians to flee to the United States. It is a shopping, eating and gathering place for the large number (estimates range from 500,000-600,000) of Iranian-Americans and their descendants residing in the Los Angeles metropolitan area ...