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Friday, November 30, 2007
Friday, September 14, 2007
Kurdish vocalist Rojan with the Pour-Nazeri Ensemble. 8pm, The Neurosciences Institute,10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr. San Diego, CA 92121. General admission $30, Students $15. Tickets/Info: (858) 653-0336
Part of The Neurosciences Institute Performing Art Series.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
An Afternoon of Classical Chinese Melodies, with Alexander Khalil, qin (silk-stringed zither). House concert at the home of Dr. & Mrs. Lance Nelson in the College Area of San Diego. 3:30pm. Free admission. Family welcome. Light refreshments provided. Please RSVP to qinconcert@centerforworldmusic.org for details, map, and directions. Alexander Khalil holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Music Composition and Performance from the California Institute of the Arts and is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy in Music degree at UCSD. Alex has spent more than twelve years conducting research on Asian musics, particularly those of China, Japan, and Indonesia. Today he teaches world music classes at UCSD, where he also teaches the only class on Chinese guqin performance in America. Friday, September 7, 2007
Music and dance from around the world, featuring Masongano (music of Africa), Alex Khalil (Chinese guqin and more), and Dornob (Persian music).
8pm, The Neurosciences Institute,10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr. San Diego, CA 92121. This concert is presented as part of the Neurosciences Institute Performing Art Series. Masongano (pictured above) Lewis Peterman is the past Director of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at SDSU, and the current President of The Center for World Music. Since 1973 he has studied, taught, and performed traditional music from Asian and African cultures, including those of Bali, Java, Sumatra, India, Iran, China, Japan, Korea, Ghana, and Zimbabwe. Randall Griswold is a member of the music faculty at California State University San Marcos. He directs and performs in many world-music ensembles, including Javanese and Balinese gamelan and traditional music of Zimbabwe. Garit Imhoff is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts. He has performed the traditional music of Zimbabwe as well as Balinese and Javanese Gamelan at university and public venues for thirty-eight years. Alex Khalil
Dornob
A collective of musicians – now spanning two generations - Dornob have been playing Persian music in San Diego since 1985. Their goal, in addition to friendship, crossing cultural bridges, learning the music, and having fun playing music, is to make Persian music accessible to young and non-Persian audiences. July 4-7, 2007
Friday, June 29, 2007
Groundbreaking Persian-American jazz tenor saxophonist HAFEZ MODIR collaborates with local greats Peter Sprague (guitar), Gunnar Biggs (double bass), and Duncan Moore (drums) for an evening of eclectic world jazz at the acoustically-perfect Neurosciences Institute. 8:00 p.m. The Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr, CA 92121. General admission $15, Students $10. Cosponsored with the Persian Cultural Center. For information, please call: (858) 653-0336 or (619) 688-0688. Sunday, June 3, 2007
From the Comoros Islands, mesmerizing vocalist NAWAL. Singing in Comoran, Arabic, French, and English, her music bridges traditional and contemporary--weaving a rich dialogue of cultures, where Indo-Arabian-Persian music meets Bantu polyphonies and the syncopated rhythms and Sufi trance music of the Indian Ocean. 7:30 p.m. Dizzy's, 344 Seventh Ave, San Diego, CA 92101. General admission $15, Students $10. For information, please call: (858) 270-7467 or (619) 688-0688. Thursday, May 24, 2007
Wang Peng and Ka woo hyun, playing and evening of music on the qin (Chinese silk-stringed zither) in their first-ever performance in the U.S. 8:00 p.m. The Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr, CA 92121. Admission: $12 adults, $8 CWM members, students, seniors, and children under 12. (Click on image above to download flyer.) Map and directions to Neurosciences Institute.
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the Center for World Music and the Persian Cultural Center
An ethnomusicologist and composer who performs regularly as a chanter in the Greek Orthodox Church, Alex Khalil holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Music Composition and Performance from the California Institute of the Arts and is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy in Music degree at UCSD. Alex has spent more than twelve years conducting research on Asian musics, particularly those of China, Japan, and Indonesia. Alex served as Executive Director of the Center for World Music for three years where he administered educational programming and events in schools and universities throughout the United States. Today he teaches world music classes at UCSD, where he also teaches the only class on Chinese guqin performance in America. He directs and teaches a comprehensive music program which he developed in 2000 at the San Diego Museum School. In 2003 this program won the "Best Practices in Education Award" presented by the business roundtable for education in San Diego. 
