UNIVERSAL SUFI MUSIC
Pejman Tadayon Ensemble

SACRED MUSIC FROM THE SILK ROAD
Pejman Tadayon

CAFÈ LOTI
Cafè Loti

IN TABERNA
Cafè Loti

RUMI AND PERSIAN SUFI MUSIC
Pejman Tadayon

HILAT
Navà Ensemble

VIAGGIO NEI COLORI
Navà Ensemble

IRAN ITALIA INDIA
Yar Ensemble

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Orchestra Persiana and Coro Persepolis

The project, conceived and conducted by Pejman Tadayon, was born to spread Oriental music in Italy and bring the listener…Continue readingOrchestra Persiana and Coro Persepolis

Via della Seta

The project proposes an imaginary journey along the ancient silk road (via della seta), the set of commercial routes that…Continue readingVia della Seta

Cafè Loti

The project takes its name from the ancient Café Loti in Istanbul, a crossroads of cultures, where travelers stopped to…Continue readingCafè Loti

Rumi e San Francesco

Two figures in the history of the world have taken unparalleled mystical momentum to the extreme and have changed the…Continue readingRumi e San Francesco

Pejman Tadayon Ensemble

Inaugurated in March 2013, the Pejman Tadayon Ensemble is the first project in Italy to have merged the disciplines that…Continue readingPejman Tadayon Ensemble

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The project, conceived and conducted by Pejman Tadayon, was born to spread Oriental music in Italy and bring the listener closer to the sounds and rhythms of Persian culture. The Orchestra Persiana uses traditional instruments, such as târ and setâr, drawing on the classical repertoires of the different regions of Iran. The Persepolis Choir – from the Greek name of the ancient capital founded under the reign of Darius – performs traditional and popolar songs in the original language.

During the show Pejman Tadayon guides the listener through the distinctive features of Persian music, describing the characteristics and use of the various instruments, the peculiarities of the rhythmic and harmonic structures, the genesis and meaning of the various songs.

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The project proposes an imaginary journey along the ancient silk road (via della seta), the set of commercial routes that for more than two thousand years has symbolically united the East and the West. Once there were no borders, but shades, colors and customs that characterized the different geographical areas and the various peoples. The tireless work of travelers, merchants and pilgrims allowed the various cultures to come into contact with each other. People compared and exchanged experiences, playing together, telling the customs of their country and the traditions of their land.

Passing through India, Persia and Mesopotamia, this sound path reaches North Africa, to end in Italy. Under the guidance of the Iranian musician Pejman Tadayon, an ensemble made up of Persian, Indian, North African and Italian musicians, he proposes sacred music and traditional songs from his country of origin, each with instruments typical of his own culture.

Pejman Tadayon: oud, voice, saz, ney

Sanjay Kansa Banik: tabla

Luigi Polsini: bass viol, kamanche

Renato Vecchio: duduk, wind instruments

Simone Pulvano: dumbek, darabuka, riq, daf

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The project takes its name from the ancient Café Loti in Istanbul, a crossroads of cultures, where travelers stopped to talk, get to know each other and exchange ideas.

The trio composed of Pejman Tadayon, Nando Citarella and Stefano Saletti retraces the atmosphere of this place of exchange, ideally breaking down the barriers between East and West, between the North and the South of the world. The three musicians, who have been engaged in research on popular music from the Mediterranean and East for years, create a bridge between past and present, between music in this original and suggestive project ” cultured ”and popular, between western and eastern tradition.

Their sound journey, on the routes of history, starts from Spain, meets with the French trobadours, the popular cantatas of the Center-South Italy , crosses the song in Sabir, crosses the ancient silk roads and Persia, to then transform itself and become a new music, capable of exciting, enchanting and dragging the listener. To demonstrate that music is the language of the possible, where the encounter with the other enriches, transforms, innovates. This was the case for centuries before barriers and walls were raised, children of fear and ignorance.

Tammorra resounds on a Greek bouzouki, saz, setar and oud accompany marranzano and tenor singing. In the repertoire we find, in addition to original compositions, pieces from the Spanish Sephardic tradition, medieval cantigas, pieces of Persian classical music , madrigals, tarantella, popular ballads. A music festival that crosses the Mediterranean on the routes of ancient travelers.

Nando Citarella: voce, tammorre, chitarra battente, marranzano

Stefano Saletti: oud, lauta, bouzouki, voce

Pejman Tadayon: saz, oud, bamtâr,setâr, ney, voce

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Two figures in the history of the world have taken unparalleled mystical momentum to the extreme and have changed the spiritual life of their peoples forever: Rumi and San Francesco. Through the poetry of the two mystics, who lived at the turn of the thirteenth century, it is possible to understand the mysterious analogies that lead to the essence of their fervor, while music, as an inspiring element, feeds on a universal language that brings geographically distant traditions closer, but only apparently irreconcilable.

Expert of traditional Persian music and scholar of medieval repertoires, Pejman Tadayon composed and chose the pieces that give life to the show, using ancient instruments of Sufi culture and medieval instruments, such as the viella and flutes. During the show, the original texts of San Francesco and the lyrics of Jalaluddin Rumi – translated from Persian to Italian – are interpreted so as to highlight the intertwining, affinities and common origin of the respective inspiration. To seal this evocative combination of music and poetry, original choreographies and suggestive Sufi dance moments are performed in particular moments of the show.

The project intends, through the parallelism between two of the most distinguished spiritual personalities of the western and middle eastern world, to renew a universal message of peace and harmony, to encourage once again the exchange between cultures and promote the comparison between religions.

The 2015 and 2019 editions of the project Rumi e San Francesco were attended were attended, respectively, by actors Valerio Aprea and Pamela Villoresi, director of Teatro Stabile Biondo in Palermo.

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Inaugurated in March 2013, the Pejman Tadayon Ensemble is the first project in Italy to have merged the disciplines that best express, from an artistic point of view, the essence of Sufism (music, dance and poetry). Founded and directed by the Persian musician and composer Pejman Tadayon, the ensemble proposes an alchemy of sounds, choreography and texts, inspired by the life and works of the most representative exponents of this mystical-philosophical current.

The poems of Jalaluddin Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam, condensed in the lyrics that best represent the spiritual search and the tension towards the divine of the three Sufi mystics, are sung in the original language and recited in the translated version. The beauty and sacredness of their verses are marked by the original instruments of the Persian tradition (setar, ney, tar, oud, santur, tombak, daf) and by the choreography of the corps de ballet, which recalls the Sema of the Mevlevi whirling dervishes and the art of ancient Persian dance.

Drawing on the vast heritage of the Persian tradition, the Pejman Tadayon Ensemble aims to spread a universal message of peace and harmony, according to the custom of the Sufi brotherhoods, to encourage the exchange between cultures and the comparison between different religions and ethnic groups. A wide-ranging project that symbolizes, through the precious fusion between complementary expressive forms, the delicate harmony of the Cosmos and the precious interaction between human and divine.

MUSICIANS

Pejman Tadayon: oud, setar, voice

Barbara Eramo: voice

Martina Pelosi: voice, harmonium

Luigi Polsini: bass viol, kamanche

Renato Vecchio: duduk, wind instruments

Simone Pulvano: dumbek, darabuka, riq, daf

Massimiliano Barbaliscia: santur

CORPS DE BALLET

Shanti Vittorio Zotti

Jolina Iavicoli

Silvia Layla

VOICE RECITING

Isabella Grimaldi

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Galleria Sonora is a place of exchange and interaction, where artists from all over the world meet and collaborate. Founded by Pejman Tadayon in 2018, it was created to encourage the dialogue between cultures and to combine the two main passions of the Persian artist: music and painting.

Located in the San Giovanni district of Rome (via Trebula, 5), the Galleria Sonora is both an event locationand an exhibition space that, in addition to the permanent exhibition of sound paintings by Pejman Tadayon, hosts concerts, readings, workshops and seminars. The program includes: concerts of Oriental music, folk tradition and Mediterranean music; concerts of world music, jazz and auteur music; courses in music theory and oriental philosophy; courses in oriental singing and instruments (oud, saz, daf, ney).

In this space have performed artists such as Nando Citarella, Stefano Saletti, Raffaela Siniscalchi, Gabriele Cohen, Gabriella Aiello, Barbara Eramo, Imran Kahn, Ustad Daud Khan and Nabil Bey, voice and author of Radiodervish.

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