PRESS TV, Iran
Aug 18 2007

Nazeri at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:47:29

The 28-year-old Persian musician Hafez Nazeri

The Rumi Ensemble along with two Los Angeles Philharmonic musicians
opened the first cycle of Hafez Nazeri’s ‘Rumi’s Symphony Project’.

Last night, Hafez Nazeri conducted his creation `In the Path of Rumi’
at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in celebration of the 800th
anniversary of the Sufi poet Mowlavi (Rumi).

His original compositions were performed by a nine-piece ensemble,
comprised of Hafez’s father, famed Iranian vocalist Shahram Nazeri,
and the Persian performers of the Rumi Ensemble and Musicians of the
Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Nazeri’s performance and first stage of his `Rumi Symphony Project’
was described by the Pasadena Weekly as `A sometimes brooding fusion
of Persian and Western instruments, styles and sounds and an attempt
to combine classical Iranian and Western music into a genre that can
be termed ‘post-classical Persian music.’

Nazeri’s compositions have been performed by the Armenian
Philharmonic Orchestra in London’s Royal Albert Hall, and at
festivals and venues such as the Sodra Teatern in Stockholm, De
Bijloke in Ghent, Belgium, the Fez Festival in Morocco and the
Thétre de la Ville in Paris.

Hafez Nazeri is the son of Shahram Nazeri, the famed Iranian Kurdish
vocalist once called the ‘Pavarotti of Iran’ by The Christian Science
Monitor.