Tune in at 4pm for Padideh Ahrarnejad and Ali Massoudi live stream performance!

About the artist:

Padideh Ahrarnejad
Padideh Ahrarnejad is an award-winning tar player, arranger, composer, and educator who has brought Persian music across Europe, the Middle East, North America and Asia. A graduate of the Tehran Art Music School and the Art University of Tehran, she studied tar with major figures of Persian music. She was a member of the Iran National Music Orchestra and the Radio and Television Orchestra; performed with the Simorq Orchestra, an all-star group dedicated to acquainting the public with Iranian culture; and was a featured soloist on legendary Iranian composer Hossein Alizâdeh’s album, Honarmandan-e Javan.
Emigrating to Toronto in 2016, she is a member of Kuné, “Canada's Global Orchestra,” a group of elite players from different musical traditions organized by the Royal Conservatory of Music, whose debut album, recorded at the Banff Centre, was released by Universal Music Canada. As a soloist and bandleader, she has performed at the Tirgan festival, the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto City Hall, Ryerson University, the University of Toronto, and elsewhere, and was a participant in the first Toronto Arts Council Newcomer Mentorship program. She made her own group “Partow” in 2019 and published the first CD under the same name. In addition to her packed performance schedule, which sees collaborations with a range of musicians from across the musical landscape, she teaches tar and setar.

Ali Massoudi
Iranian-born musician and academic Ali Massoudi plays several percussion instruments, has toured widely internationally with a variety of master musicians, and authored five authoritative training books for tonbak, daf and udu.
Over the course of his career, he has had the opportunity to work with many renowned musicians, ensembles, and orchestras including the Iranian National Music Orchestra, the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, Shahrdad Rohani, Nader Mortezapour, Naghmeye Kimia, Eal, Hamnavazane Mehr, Parnian, Taranome Jan, Mahtab Rou, and more, performing across Iran, Turkey, Cuba, China, and across Europe. In addition Massoudi has performed on national television and on film soundtracks with a variety of groups, from orchestras to traditional and percussion ensembles.
Since emigrating to Canada, Massoudi continues to perform with a range of artists in cities across the country. He leads the Navaye Kimia Ensemble, which combines Persian, Indian, and Pakistani music, and is a member of the border-crossing Iranian-Brasilian-Peruvian-Greek-Canadian group Partow, among others.

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