Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble Wins Grammy with Kurdish Iranian Maestro Kalhor
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: Yo-Yo Ma's Sing Me Home album, which won the 2017 Grammy for Best World Music Album, features renowned Kurdish Iranian Kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor as part of the world famous international Silk Road Ensemble. Silk Road was initiated by the Chinese American cellist Yo Yo Ma to bring together prominent musicians of different cultures from around the world.
Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble’s Grammy Award-winning album, Sing Me Home, is a tribute to the ways culture can help us encounter, connect, and build something new.
Kalhor, a native of the Kurdish city of Kermanshah in Iran who is now based in the United States, began performing music in his early childhood.
According to Billboard’s biography, Kalhor is more known for his original work.
“Kayhan Kalhor is a composer of Kurdish and Persian classical music and well known as a member of the Persian/Kurdish folk and classical ensemble Ghazal and Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble. He is also a virtuoso on the kamancheh, setar, and Persian violin. He is globally renowned for his original works, his interpretations of traditional music, and his collaborations with other classical and modern musicians.”
Kalhor collaborated with the New York-based Brooklyn Rider string quartet on the album Silent City in 2008.
“The title track [Silent City] is a Kalhor composition originally featured on Yo-Yo Ma’s New Impossibilities,” according to the World Village Music, “and introduces the theme of life’s continued renewal in the face of destruction, whether by humankind or by the forces of nature.”
According to Rudaw Silent City is an elegy for the Kurdish city of Halabja, which the Saddam regime attacked with chemical weapons in 1988.
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