Noon Hour Concert: Enthusiastically in the Circle

Shahriyar Jamshidi is an Illustrious Kurdish-Canadian Kamānche player, composer and vocalist with a pronounced cultural background who has devoted his artistic profession to the preservation and transmission of the Kurdish musical heritage. He is also celebrated for his creative and masterful kamānche improvisations, both as a soloist and in ensembles. Since settling in Canada in 2012, Shahriyar has consistently sought new musical languages, thereby crossing cultures by reverberating his Kamānche recitals at the Canadian Opera Company; Windsor and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra; Amsterdam Cello Biennial; and the University of Glasgow. His latest released album “My Sunset-Land Rojava” is dedicated to all resistance women who lost their lives to liberate KOBANE (Western Kurdistan, ROJAVA in Syria) and contributed to the suffered Yazidis women from the 2015 ethnic cleansing in Iraq. Shahriyar received numerous awards including the International Society for Music Education (ISME) in Azerbaijan (2018). 

Admission is free.