Meret – Forbidden Voices FestivalConcert
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This event is in the past.
With Iranian world music from Aida Shahghasemi & band, traditional Kurdish music from Sakina Teyna & friends, and lyrical songs by Iranian soprano Anousha Nazari
This event is in the past.
With Iranian world music from Aida Shahghasemi & band, traditional Kurdish music from Sakina Teyna & friends, and lyrical songs by Iranian soprano Anousha Nazari
"Dear friends, after long deliberations and consultations, we have decided with a heavy heart to postpone the Meret event because of the situation in Iran and Afghanistan. Events that initially only proved the timeliness of such a festival unfortunately precipitated. The associations supporting us suddenly had other priorities of existential issues,and are providing emergency aid, so have no more capacity for Meret."
Aida Shahghasemi is a Minneapolis-based musician with roots in Iran. She studied Psychology and Anthropology at University of Minnesota with a focus on the cultural aspects of Persian Classical Music and the restrictions imposed on the voices of Iranian female vocalists. She received her Masters degree from New York University in Arts Politics where she also served as an adjunct instructor teaching a course she developed on arts activism in Iran. She has worked with a number of different art and social advocacy groups in New York and Minnesota as a musician, graphic designer and developer as well as serving as Assistant Program Coordinator at Hamline University’s Making Waves Social Justice Theatre Troupe. She has been a touring member of Iron and Wine and Marketa Irglova’s band while also being a recording artist on two of Glen Hansard’s albums. Her two albums are “Wind Between the Horse’s Ears”, released in 2015, and “Cypress of Abarkooh”, released in 2019. She is a McKnight Music Fellow and serves as an adjunct faculty in the MFA programme at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Aida is pursuing a second Masters degree in Counseling Psychology and currently serves as the co-chair for the Growth and Sustainability pillar in the executive board for Student Affiliates of the American Psychological Association.
Sakina Teyna was born into a Kurdish Alevite family in the small town of Varto in Turkey. As a teenager she started singing with Turkish choirs and bands, but it wasn’t until she entered university that she became acquainted with Kurdish musical traditions and set out to defy cultural assimilation. In 1991 she joined the Mespotamian Cultural Center in
Istanbul, a champion of Kurdish culture, as a singer. Like many other Kurdish musicians, she was forced to go underground to practise her music and soon had to choose political activism over art. It wasn’t until Sakina arrived in Austria as a political refugee in 2006 that she took to singing as a full-time pursuit again. The first fruit of her concentrated creative efforts were released in the form of her first solo album ROYÊ MI, globally distributed by ARC Music. Sakina joined forces with pianist Nazê Îşxan and violinist Nurê Dilovanî to form the all-female TRIO MARA, drawing on traditional Kurdish songs mainly sung by and handed down from woman to woman, enriching the material with Western classical and contemporary approaches.
Born in Sari, near the Caspian Sea, Anousha Nazari began singing with local orchestras before joining the Sonata Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir Ensemble. In 2014, she was selected for the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, then under the direction of Maestro Alexander Rahbari. Living in France since 2016, she joined the lyric singing section at the Conservatoire Rayonnement Régional de Cergy. Her first album, “Sounds of Ancestors”, was produced and released in March 2021 by Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture, University of California.
With the kind support of the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich
