Nasim-e Tarab Ensemble, led by Saeid Kordmafi, will tour Europe and the UK in Autumn 2024. This will be the first of the border-crossing creative projects supported by Maqām Beyond Nation. 

The five-member Nasim-e Tarab Ensemble is part of a dynamic aesthetic movement in contemporary Middle Eastern classical music which challenges the rigid (and heavily political) boundaries between national traditions, in favour of a cross-cultural approach to the musics of the region. This approach acknowledges how musical practices and musicians moved, varied, and influenced each other in the Middle and Near East as well as Central Asia for centuries. At a time of renewed carnage in the region, the message that music exemplifies flexibility and compromise may strike a few chords.   


The music performed by the Nasim-e Tarab Ensemble is a suite of classical Iranian music composed and arranged by Saeid Kordmafi, based on his long-term research on and practical involvement in creative practices and their historical interdependencies in the Middle/Near East and Central Asia, endeavouring to address classical Iranian music from a transnational and historically informed approach.   

Nasim-e Tarab (The Breeze of Musical Enchantment) is the title of a Safavid musical treatise, compiled in Persian, during the 16th century.   

The musicians of Nasim-e Tarab Ensemble are as follows: Mehdi Emami (vocals), Siamak Jahangiri (ney), Hamid Ghanbari (percussions), Saeid Nayebmohammadi (oud), Saeid Kordmafi (santur).  

The performances will, respectively, take place at Auditorium DAMSLab, University of Bologna (23 September), Auditorium Emanuele Severino Santa Margherita, University of Venice (25 September), National Centre for Early Music, York (28 September), Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London (9 October). 



 

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