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SPEECHES

Year 2024

* Stanford University. Speaker. "A Behind-the-scenes look at the making of Pomegranate Dance". Stanford Center for Computer and Research in Music and Acoustics. 660 Lomita Dr. Saturday, August 31st. 1:15 -2:30 pm.

Year 2023

* University of California Irvine. Lecture and Demonstration. April 23rd, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm.

 

Year 2022

* University of California Irvine. Lecture and Demonstration. November 23rd, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm.

* Film Screening and Discussion: Rediscovering "12 Persian Folk Songs" By Blair Fairchild. Event Sponsor: Stanford University, Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies. Thursday, August 25th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am. 

* University of California, Irvine. Lecture and Demonstration. May 3rd, 3:30 pm - 4:50 pm 

 

Year 2021

* University of California, Irvine. Lecture and Demonstration. November 17th. 4 pm.

* Univeristy of California, Irvine. Workshop. May 3rd. 4 pm. 

 

Year 2020

* University of Austin, Texas. Two Masterclass/Workshops. March 28th, and April 4th

 

 Year 2017

* SPICE Conference. February 8th, 2017. 1-2 pm. Stanford University

* Oklahoma University. Workshop with Bamdad Ensemble. March 3rd, 2017. 4:30 pm. Catllet Music Center. Pitman Concert Hall. 

 

Year 2016 

* Lecture and Demonstration. February, 12, 2016. 1:00 pm. Spice Conference. Stanford University  

 

Year 2015 

 * Lecture/Demonstration on Iranian Classical Music and santur. Cupertino - De Anza College. Music Department. Room A 11. Tuesday, Novermber 17th. 12:00 pm 

 * Lecture/Demonstration on Santur at Stanford University. SPICE Conference. Friday, February 27th. 2015.

 

Year 2014

* Demonstration on Improvisation. Improvisation class. University of California, Irvine. Friday, October 17th, 2014. 5:00 pm.  

* Lecture and demonstration on Iranian Classical music. De Anza College. May 29th, 2014. 1:00-2:00 pm.

 

Year 2013

 * Iranian Classical Music Lecture. San Jose State University. October 10th, 2013.

* Silk Road, Classical Iranian music, and Contemporary Classical Iranian music. University of California Irvine. October, 15th, 2013. 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

*Master Class on Composition, Improvisation and Contemporary Classical Iranian music. University of California Irvine. October, 15th, 2013. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

* Lecture/Demonstration and Contemporary Iranian Classical Music. Shoenberg Music Building. University of Califronia, Los Angeles. Novermber 23rd, 2013. 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

 

Year 2012

* Modernism and Tradition in Iranian Classical Music. Stanford University. May 20th, 2012. 4:00 - 6:00 pm.

* Iranian Classical Music and the Silk Road. University of California, Santa Cruz. May 3rd 2012.

* NCTA East Asian Seminar SPICE/Stanford University. Stanford University. Friday, 10th, 2012.

* 2012 annual conference of Northern California Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NCCSEM) . Santa Clara University. March, 3rd, 2012.

 

Year 2011

* 2011 annual conference of Northern California Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NCCSEM) .Presenting "Abstracting" Iranian Classical Music. - San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California. March 5th, 2011.

Elmi Karbordi University of Iran. Branch 11. On "Abstracting Iranian Classical Music". 2011.

 

Year 2010

* Lecture: Iranian Classical Music
- De Anza College, Cupertino, California. Nov 22nd, 2010.

 

Year 2008

* Lecture Demonstration on santour
-UC Santa Cruz. 1156 High Street. Santa Cruz, CA, 95064.Jan, 24th, 2008. -12pm- 1:45pm. 
* Lecture Demonstration on santour
-UC Irvine. January, 9th, 2008.
-Iranian music (Hossein Omoumi)
* Lecture Demonstration on Iranian music 
- Society for Ethnomusicology Northern California Chapter
- Annual Conference 
- Cal State University, East Bay. March, 8th, 2008
- Click here to view the schedule
* Lecture Demonstration on Iranian music and santour
- Park Day School. Oakland March, 21st, 2008. 
* Lecture. 
"What is Music?" 
- Iran, Tehran, Karaj. Sarang Music Institute. April, 2008. 
* Lecture on Iranian Music 
- De Anza College, Cupertino, California. June, 3rd, 2008.
* Santour Clinic
- santour workshop
1610 Berryessa rd, San Jose, Ca. Saturday, August 23rd, 2008.

 

Year 2007

* Lecture Demonstration on santour
-UC Los Angeles. Feb, 2007.
-Seminar of Ethnomusicology (Jihad Racy) 

 

Year 2006

* San Francisco State University 
-Fall Semester 2006, Two Sessions
-Room 147, Lecture: Theory of Persian Classical Music (Ethnomusicology)
* San Francisco State University
-Fall Semester, 2006 , One Session
-Knuth Hall, Lecture, Theory of Persian Classical Music (Musicology) 

 

Year 2003

* De Anza college
-One Session of an Introduction to Persian Music, each quarter for the year 2003. 

 

Year 2002

* Lecture series, Introduction to music.
-Payvand Farsi School, Cupertino. (young students) 2002

 

Year 2001

* Lecture series, Introduction to Iranian Music 
-"Nahaad Farhangieh Dehkhoda". (young students) 2001. 

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