Siamak Jahangiri
Siamak Jahangiri ( Siamak Jahangiry , Siamak Dschahāngiri ; * 1971 ) is an Iranian ney player , composer and music teacher .
Jahangiri started playing ney at the age of twelve. He was a student of Abdolnaghi Afsharnia and Mohammad Ali Kiani Nejad and studied at the University of Tehran . He lives as a Ney teacher and composer in Tehran and has written a book about the Ney, their playing technique in the 20th century and masters of the instrument.
Jahangiri became known in the West as a member of Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Ensemble , on whose albums When Strangers Meet and Beyond the Horizon he can be heard. He also worked on the album Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy & Peace . He is also a member of the Abd-al-Qadir Ensemble , which is dedicated to the work of Abd al-Qadir Maraghi , a Persian music theorist and composer of the 14th century. The ensemble also recorded compositions by Jahangiris based on Northern Iranian folk music and classical Persian music.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Siamak Jahangiry on The Silkroad Project , accessed May 6, 2014.
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| SURNAME | Jahangiri, Siamak |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jahangiry, Siamak; Cehângîrî, Siamek |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian nay player, composer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |