Kiya Tabassian - setar Didem Basar - kanun Kyriakos Kalaidzidis - oud Pierre-Yves Martel - viola da gamba

This program sheds light on an obscure period in Persian history, when large numbers of Iranian musicians migrated to the neighboringOttoman and Byzantine cultural centers during the Safavid dynasty (1501-1736). With the discovery and decoding of this repertoire, we shall be able to better understand the history of the art music of Iran and to reconstruct the broken bridge between the practices of its glorious past and those of its present.