ENSEMBLE DAMSAZ

In the organizer's words:

After 40 years of musical experience and over 1,500 performances all over the world, the well-known instrumentalist and composer Hamid Motebassem, together with Samira Golbaz, founds an ensemble called "DAMSAZ". Ensemble DAMSAZ - which means familiar, harmonious, on the same path - is an affectionate duet founded by Hamid Motebassem and Samira Golbaz and this time the duet will take the stage at the Lutherkirche Südstadt with Omid Niavarani, a percussionist of the young generation.

Samira Golbaz, Iranian tar and vocals
Hamid Motebasem, Iranian tar and vocals
Omid Niavarani

Hamid Motebassem, Iranian Composer, Tar & Setar Player
was born in 1958 in Mashad, Iran. He grew up in a musical family, his first teacher at the tar was his father Ali Motebassem. His later teachers included the masters Habiballah Salehi, Zeydallah Toloie, Houshang Zarif, Hossein Alizadeh and Mohammad Reza Lotfi. Motebassem studied at the Tehran Academy of Arts and the Conservatory of Persian Music. He was a member of the Chavosh Cultural Center, where he taught music. As one of the original members of the Aref Ensemble, he founded the Dastan Ensemble and the ensemble Chakavak, Mezrab & Pardis after immigrating to Germany in 1986.Hamid Motebassem is the founder of the Society of Tar and Setar and has been organizing annual seminars on the two instruments since 1994. He has contributed to numerous albums by contemporary Iranian composers and played in well-known ensembles such as Mezrab Ensemble and Dastan Ensemble.
His own works include compositions for traditional instruments, e.g. Hanaie and Shurideh, which won the title "Musical Shock" in the music magazine Le Monde and was awarded the prize for the best music of the year 2003 by the French Ministry of Culture.

Samira Golbaz
was born in 1984. She holds a B.A. in Music from Sooreh University and an M.A. in Arts Research from Islamic Azad University. Her main teachers in setar playing and the principles of Iranian music were Ataollah Jangook, Hamid Sokouti, Bahram Jamali, Alireza Rastinfar, Masoud Shaari and Hamid Motebassem. Her main artistic activities include teaching music, collaborating with some music groups (such as Torgheh, Sarv-e-azad and Mezrab) and working with Hamid Motebassem as a tar and setar player on some albums such as "Zemzemeha", "Zemestan". To kisti", "Tar-o-Pud" and "My Colorful Dreams". She has performed in several countries and at various international festivals and has also written music articles and reviews.
https://www.facebook.com/public/Samira-Golbaz

Omid Niavarani
is an Iranian percussionist who holds a Master's degree in International Music and Cultural Diversity from the University of Hildesheim in Germany. He has appeared on radio and television and participated in various concerts and festivals.
In addition to his performances, Omid also organizes festivals and concert tours in Iran and Germany. Currently, Omid Niavarani is working on recording albums of Iranian classical music, Zorkhaneh music and international music. He also conducts seminars on Iranian classical music, Zorkhaneh music and Iranian percussion instruments at various universities. He studied tombak withPedram Khavarzmini, master Faramarz Najafi Tehrani and Ali Najafi Tehrani, daf with Shahriar Nazari

Price information:

Price VVK: 30,00 € Price B.O.: 35,00 € erm. Students and pupils with proof: € 25.00