Diaspora Arts Connection proudly presents "A Night of Music with Mohammad Khodadadi" on Friday, December 1, 2023 at 8:00 PM at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts' SecondStage. Mohammad Khodadadi will talk about the history of Persian music and walk you through nostalgic songs and anecdotes and demonstrate the different modes of the traditional Persian music modal system. This presentation is entirely in Persian language

About the artist

Mohammad Khodadadi, born in 1979 in Bushehr, Iran, is a Ney player and a composer who has studied composition of western classical music at the university of Anton Bruckner in Linz/Austria. Mohammad started playing Ney from the age of 15 through strong self-discipline and coaching of Masters of Ney such as Mr. Hassan Kassai, and Mr. A. Afsharnia. He has also studied the Persian radif and techniques of singing with Master Hatam Askari & Seddigh Tarif. He learned to play the piano with Rosita Shaker and Tamara Dolidze in Iran and continued with Andreas Taller in Austria. Mohammad learned composition with Master Alireza Mashayekhi, Professor Soyka and Erland Freudenhaler.

Photo by Golnaz Shahmirzadi.

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