Contempuls Night: Mahan Esfahani
Contempuls Night: Mahan Esfahani
Contempuls Night: Mahan Esfahani
Contempuls Night: Mahan Esfahani
Contempuls Night: Mahan Esfahani
Contempuls Night: Mahan Esfahani
Contempuls Night: Mahan Esfahani

Contempuls Night: Mahan Esfahani

Entry
CZK 200–500
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The Iranian-American musician Mahan Esfahani moved in 2015 from the UK to Prague, so as to study with Zuzana Růžičková. By that time, he had been named by the BBC a New Generation Artist, given the first harpsichord recital in the history of the Promps, received the prestigious Gramophone Award, and had made recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and Hyperion Records. Transcending the harpsichord conventions, besides 17th- and 18th-century music, Esfahani has also performed works by contemporary composers, including a version of Piano Phase, authorised by Steve Reich himself. At the Contempuls festival, he will play pieces from the repertoire of the second half of the 20th century – Italy’s Luciano Berio’s Rounds and Finland’s Kaija Saariaho’s Jardin Secret II for harpsichord and electronics, as well as compositions directly written for him: Intertwined Distances by Iran’s Anahita Abbasi and, in world premiere, Triggering, a brand new work written to the festival’s commission by Miroslav Srnka, deemed the most significant Czech contemporary composer within the international context.

Programme: – Graham Lynch: Admiring Yōrō Waterfall – Luciano Berio: Rounds – Anahita Abbasi: Intertwined Distances – Miroslav Srnka: Triggering, world premire, commissioned by Contempuls – Kaija Saariaho: Jardin Secret II

Performing artists

Mahan Esfahani
Mahan Esfahani

United Kingdom

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