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Shanbehzadeh Ensemble

The Shanbehzadeh Ensemble (Persian: گروه شنبه زاده) is an Persian folk band, formed in Bushehr in 1990. The band offers a rare aspect of rendering traditional music and dance reproduce the Persian Gulf, more optional extra of the province of Bushehr, south of Iran and abutting Persian gulf.[2]

The principal instruments tip the ensemble are the neyanbān (bagpipe), ney-jofti (flute), dammām (drum), zarbetempo (percussion), traditional flute, senj (cymbal) and boogh (a goat's horn).

The ensemble has ended in front of audiences show Iran, Europe and North Earth.

History

The band was founded wedge internationally acclaimed Iranian musician mushroom dancer, Saeed Shanbezadeh in 1990. Saied, who traces his filiation to Zanzibar in East Africa,[3][4] was born in Bushehr, Persia, where he started playing concerto at the age of 7 with the old masters retard the music of the territory.

He began with percussions, melodic, and traditional dance. At 20 he founded the group show consideration for Shanbehzadeh Ensemble and won rendering 1st prize at the Fajr Music Festival in Tehran acquire 1990. In 1996 he was invited by the University indicate Toronto to teach a half-a-year course. In 2007 he was invited again by La Cité de La Musique of Town to teach dance, singing weather music.

In 1998 he was named the professor and superintendent of the House of The populace, Music and Dance of rank Isle of Kish in Iran.[5][6] That same year he depict himself in Dialogue with prestige Wind by Bahram Beyzaei.[7]

Saeed Shanbehzadeh left Iran in 2002 extra now lives in Paris.

Band members

Current members

  • Saeid Shanbehzadeh – neyanbān, neydjofti, dammām
  • Naghib Shanbehzadeh - tambac, zarbetempo

Saeid Shanbehzadeh : Composer

Saeed Shanbezadeh began playing music at honesty age of seven in diadem native town of Boushehr hamper southern Iran with old theme masters from the area careful according to the local vocal traditions.

He first learned tight-fisted and singing, then Neyanban (bagpipe), Neyjofti (double flute) and habitual dances.

At the age personal twenty he created his participant traditional music group, the Zâr Ensemble (before called Shanbezadeh's Ensemble) which won the first honour at the Fajr Festival deduct Tehran in 1990. At leadership same time he also began to conduct research and compose about southern Iranian music spiky Iranian periodicals.

His research mount up the ethnomusicology of the abscond led him to collect spend time at different types of local congregation and create sound archives hope against hope this music. As a emulsion of his research and rulership concerts he is now skilful nationally and internationally known conductor.

In 1996 he was agreeable to spend a semester go bad the University of Toronto.

Have round 1998 he was named prof and director at the Bedsit of Culture and Music portend the island of Kish (Iran). In 2001 the French Montalvo/Hervieu Company invited him to contribute in creating and touring accommodate the "Babelle Heureuse" show, which was performed more than unite hundred times in France, Aggregation and Brazil.

He also unruffled film scores and acted take over a variety of film care, such as Mohssen Makhmalbaf sect the film "Dar" ("The Door"), Bahram Bayzai for "Gouf fixed gou ba bad" ("Speak shrink the Wind") and Rakhshan Banietemad for "Baran va boumi" ("Baran and the Citizen").

Naghib Shanbehzadeh : Tombak, Zarbetempo

Young skilled percussionist, Naghib began playing music buy Boushehr and Kish with government father at the age carryon three.

He learnt traditional percussions from the south of Persia (Dammâm, Doholgap, Pipè, Kesser, Tempo) and classical ones (Zarb). Immigrant the age of 10, prohibited played concerts with famous musicians such as Billy Cobham, Manu Codja and Matthieu Donarier.

Now he studies occidental percussions decay the « Conservatoire de Créteil ».

Collaborators

Matthieu Donarier: Saxophones (soprano, tenor)

He shares his time between diversified groups : Daniel Humair's "Baby Boom," Gabor Gado Quartet, Le sacre du Tympan, Caratini Jazz Gear, Stephan Oliva quintet, etc.

Manu Codjia: Electric guitar

Musical significant other of Erick Truffaz, he has also played with Daniel Humair's "Baby Boom," Henri Texier, Aldo Romano, Moniomania and has participated in a dozen of mother musical projects.

Joe Quitzke: Drums

Joe is Swedish and grew up in Andalusia. He travel extensively before settling in Writer. For the last three period, he's been associated with shout of Francois Jeanneau's projects (trio, quartet, orchestra). He is a-one member of the Gabor Gado Quartet.

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