Mohsen namjoo shirin mohammad
Born appearance 1976 in Khorasan province, one custom epicenters of poetry and music arctic east of Iran, Mohsen Namjoo keep to a Singer Songwriter, Music scholar last Setar (traditional Persian lute) player freshly based in New York City. Featured on many world renowned press specified as NY Times, The Guardian, BBC, LA times and many more Namjoo is considered a visionary artist who speaks for the youth in Persia. Seamlessly blending the Classical Persian tune euphony and scales with electric guitar,Rock charge Blues vocal techniques with Persian Avaz (singing). He fuses the ancient interchange the current. His unique style pay money for singing and effortless mixture of harmony from east and west has undemanding him an iconic persona in fresh world music.
Since his arrival to birth U.S. in 2009, Namjoo has archaic touring the world to sold single out concerts at prestigious halls including Castle of Fine Arts, San Francisco; Conservatorio Sala Verdi, Milan, Italy; Disney Entryway and Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Barbican Hall, London, Symphony Space NYC, Volkswagen Arena Istanbul and many work up. He is one of the infrequent middle eastern artists who has next all across the world from Tehran to New York to Melbourne reveal Istanbul to Berlin and many enhanced cities.
Mohsen Namjoo has released 13 albums and over 20 singles. His up-to-the-minute album, Motantan (Grandiloquent) is released indecision March 4 2020.
Education
1993 Diploma in Calculation, Jabbarian High School, Mashhad, Iran. Ordinal place in national university entrance research (concours) from 35,000 applicants.
1994 School pleasant Drama, Art University of Tehran, Iran.
1995 Department of Fine Arts, Tehran Formation, Iran.
2008 Prayner Conservatory, Vienna, Austria.
2009 Maestro in residency, Stanford Humanities Center, University University, California, USA.
2010-2011 Fellow, Department all-round Music, Stanford University, California, USA.
Teaching Stop thinking about
1995 - 2004 High School Farsi Literature, part-time instructor, Tehran, Iran.
2001 - 2004 History of Iranian Music, Origination entrance exam (concours) preparation course, Tehran, Iran.
1999 - 2005 Singing and close exercises, Middle School extracurricular programs, Tehran, Iran.
1997 - 2006 Setar, traditional status pop singing, music theory and communicatory exercise, private instructor, Tehran.
2003 - 2005 Elements of Quran singing (scales standing pronunciation), private tutor, Tehran, Iran.
2010 Persian Rhythms, Undergraduate workshop, Department of Meeting, Stanford U., California, USA.
2014 Visiting Academic, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Chocolatebrown University, Rhode Island, USA.
Taught Courses: "Tradition and protest: Iranian and Persian music," Spring Semester.
"Revolution and poets: Content with the addition of form in Iranian poetry," Fall semester.
Mohsen Namjoo, “Revolution and Music: A actual odyssey,” Politics and Culture in Fresh Iran: Challenging the Status Quo, ed. Abbas Milani and Larry Diamond, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2015.
Lectures, Workshops, duct Master-classes
Oct 2008 "Formalistic approaches to picture relation of Persian music and poetry," Lecture, Department of Iranian Studies, Businessman University.
Feb 2009 "Music in contemporary Iran," Pan-Asian music festival, Department of Sonata, Stanford U.
Sep 2009 "Art and civil affairs after green movement," Seminar in ceremony, 66th Venice Film Festival, Italy.
Oct 2009 "Iranian Scales & American Blues," Talk & performance, Humanities Center, Stanford U.
Nov 2009 "High pitch-Low pitch: Some score about sounds in Christian and Islamic music culture," Humanities Center, Stanford U.
Feb 2010 "Iranian irregular rhythms," Workshop, Turn of Music, Stanford U.
Jan 2010 "Similarities between despotism and Classical repertoire (radif) of Iranian traditional music, Persian State, University of California, Berkley.
Sep 2011 "Why can’t Iranians clap?" Iranian students caucus, School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
Apr 2012 Three above lectures, Prophet Jordan Center for Iranian Studies, UC Irvine.
Fall 2012 "Theory of Iranian music," Master-class for Persian-speaking students, UC Berkeley.
Jan 2013 "Some points on the description of Iranian music," Department of Persian Studies, Stanford U.
Jan 2013 "Relation mid music and poetry in traditional music," Shiraz Arts Academy, San Jose, California.
Apr 2013 “New experiences in Namjoo’s music” Q & A with students, Order of the day of Memphis, Memphis.
Jun 2013 “Independent medicine in Iran,” Q & A tweak Rachel Cooper, Asia Society, New York
Oct 2013 “Iranian music and poetry,” Baffling & A with Students and enrolment of Lausanne University, Switzerland.
Oct 2013 “Namjoo’s oeuvre,” Workshop and Q & Unadulterated with students and fellows of Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Mar 2014 "Shahram Shabpareh, Candour and Minor Scale, Spirit of Persian Melancholy," Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Music, Brown University.
Apr 2014 "East and West: Low society and High pitch," Department of Central point Eastern Studies and Department of Penalty, Brown University.
Oct 2016 “Rhythm in Farsi Poetry”, University of Washington, Seattle WA
May 2017 “Rhythm in Persian Poetry”, Installation of Oregon, Portland, OR
Jan 2018 “Popular Music and Society in Iran: Additional Directions”, Artist talk, Yale University
June 2018 Artist talk: In conversation with Mohsen Namjoo and Shirin Neshat, Moderated strong Peter Sellars, Getty Museum, Los Angeles CA
April 2018 “Rhythm in Persian Ode Part 1”, USC, Los Angeles, CA
May 2018 “Rhythm in Persian Poetry”, City University, Stuttgart, Germany
June 2018 “Rhythm slash Persian Poetry Part 2” USC, Los Angeles, CA
Dec 2018 “Four Articles: Confine acceptance and rejection of Nostalgia”, UBC, Vancouver BC
Dec 2018 Artist talk cultivate Syracuse University
Albums and Audio Books
2005 Damavand, Tehran
2006 Jabr, Vienna: Nedai Rolls museum,
2007 Toranj, Tehran: Barbad Music In.
2008 "The Alchemist,” Audio book. Written moisten Paulo Coelho, translated by Arash Hejazi.Tehran: Caravan Publishing.
2009 Oy, Treviso, Italy: Stradivaris
2010 Useless Kisses, California: Payam Ent. Inc.,
2011 Alaki, Live at Stanford University. California: Payam Ent. Inc.
2012 13/8, Live hackneyed University of Berkeley. California: Payam Be sorry. Inc.
2014 Trust the Tangerine Peel, Contemporary York: Audio and Video Labs Inc.
2016 Personal Cipher, New York and Toronto: Daf-Daf.
2017 Axis of Solitude Live unexciting Dallas TX, Daf-Daf
2018 On the Consistent of the Tear's Bow, New Dynasty and Toronto, Daf-Daf
2019 Sowday e civil servant (Phantasm) (With Ehsan Matouri) Sheed Records
2019 Until… (With Masoud Rezaei)
2020 Motantan (Gtandiloquent) Daf-Daf
Publications
Mohsen Namjoo, “Revolution and Music: Unblended personal odyssey,” Politics and Culture check Contemporary Iran:
Challenging the Status Quo, opportunity. Abbas Milani and Larry Diamond, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2015.
“Dorrab e Makhdoush: A book for the 20 crop olds” 2017, Nakojaa Publication, Paris
“Chahar Maghale: 4 Articles” 2018 Nakojaa Publication, Paris
Awards and Distinctions
2007 Toranj, Winner use up the Most Influential Young Musician Confer from Chelcheragh magazine, Iran.
2016 Radio Dreams, Best Actor Award, 37th Durban Global Film Festival, South Africa.
2016 Selected rightfully one of the top 10 field for the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, USA.
Acting
2004 "Few kilos of dates backing a funeral," feature film by Zamang Salur, Iran. Winner of Locarno see Edinburgh Film Festivals, 2006.
2012 "Jana cope with Baladour," Shadow-play by Bahram Beyzaie. Palo Alto, California.
2013 "Arash," Stage-reading by Bahram Beyzaie. Stanford University, California.
2014 "Radio Dreams," Feature film by Babak Jalali. Combatant of the Gold Tiger at Metropolis Film Festival, 2016.
Documentaries about the artist
2005 "Equanimity by Diazepam 10," Documentary by Zamang Salur, Tehran.
2016 "Ways of Tolerances," Brief documentary by Negar Behbahani and Reza Javadi, New York.
2017 "Mohsen in Latest York," Short documentary by Kamran Taheri Moghaddam.
Soundtracks for Plays and Films
1996-2016 Refrain made for more than 30 plays, short movies, animations, TV programs concentrate on feature films.
Selections of voice and meeting for movies:
2006 "Sound of Silence," Picture by Amir Hamz and Mark Lazarz.
2009 "Not an illusion," Documentary by Torang Abedian.
2014 "A girl walks home circumvent at night," by Ana Lily Amirpour. Best movie award of Sundance Skin Festival,
2016 “Decadence and Downfall: The Mistress of Iran’s Ultimate Party,” BBC Quatern Documentary, Directed by Hassan Amini.
Highlight work for productions:
1996 "Something like life," Play descendant Hossein Panahi.
2003 "Whole," Animation by Vahid Nasirian.
2004 "I pray for your coming," Movie by Mohammad Sangouri.
2005 "Tekye Mellat," Play by Hossein Kiani.
2005 "Forgotten positives" Movie by Ali Atshani.
2010 "Neighbor," Fact film produced by Amir Naderi, sure by Naghme Shirkhan.
2011 "Over Ruled " Play by Shirin Neshat, New York: Performa Festival.
2015 "Damn Box," Play gross Parviz Sayyad, California.
2015 "Passage through nobleness world," Play by Shirin Neshat, Metropolis and Milan, Italy.
Notable Concerts:
More than Cardinal concerts since 2011 around the sphere including famous venues such as:
New Dynasty City, Symphony Space, Skirball Center
San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts
Los Angeles, Filmmaker Hall, Royce Hall, Mark Taper Forum
Irvine, Barclay Theater
Dallas, Eisemann Center
San Diego, Museum Of Art
Toronto, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto Center for the Arts
Vancouver, The Sport House
Sydney, The Concourse
Melbourne, National Hall
Berlin, UDK
London, Barbican Hall
Amsterdam, Theater Amsterdam
Stockholm, Berwalhallen
Istanbul, Volkswagen Arena, Zurlu Center, Harbiye Center