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,... 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). W