Sahba Motallebi Rahim Al-haj
June 21, 2019 at 7 pm Kirkland Performance Center
350 Kirkland Ave., Kirkland, WA 98033
Co-Sponsored by: American Iranian Friendship Council, Portland Shiraz Friendship Community, ArtMax Academy, BiBi, Early Music Seattle,...
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"There is no rock guitarist, no oud player, possibly no musician anywhere in the world with such subtle yet fearsome chops on a fretted instrument." - New York Music Daily
Sahba Motallebi is an Iranian songwriter, Tar, Setar and Shoorangiz virtuoso and an internationally acclaimed musician. As a teenager in her native Iran she pushed against patrimonial restrictions and emerged as a dynamo on her instruments; when she was only 14 she began her studies at the Tehran Conservatory of Music and between the years 1995-98 she was a four-time winner as best tar player at the Iranian Music Festival (she also studied abroad, in Russia and Turkey). While still in school she cofounded the boundar…
June 21, 2019 at 7 pm Kirkland Performance Center
350 Kirkland Ave., Kirkland, WA 98033
Co-Sponsored by: American Iranian Friendship Council, Portland Shiraz Friendship Community, ArtMax Academy, BiBi, Early Music Seattle,...
Tickets for Seattle event are now on sale at:
"There is no rock guitarist, no oud player, possibly no musician anywhere in the world with such subtle yet fearsome chops on a fretted instrument." - New York Music Daily
Sahba Motallebi is an Iranian songwriter, Tar, Setar and Shoorangiz virtuoso and an internationally acclaimed musician. As a teenager in her native Iran she pushed against patrimonial restrictions and emerged as a dynamo on her instruments; when she was only 14 she began her studies at the Tehran Conservatory of Music and between the years 1995-98 she was a four-time winner as best tar player at the Iranian Music Festival (she also studied abroad, in Russia and Turkey). While still in school she cofounded the boundar…