The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Information is very pleased to welcome
in the new year with an evening of Persian classical music
performed by
Sahba Motallebi on tar & setar
and Mehdi Bagheri on kamancheh, tonbak & setar

A limited number of seats remain for the 8:30 p.m. performance on Sunday.
All seats for 7:00 p.m. have been reserved.

Advance reservations are encouraged.
Sunday, January 6th, 2013 7:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m.
The Museum of Jurassic Technology 9341 Venice Blvd Culver City, CA 90232
$15 General Donation
$12 Museum members, students, seniors
Tickets can be reserved online at
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?TheMuseumofJurassicT/51cdba404f/6def94969f/d611958d77.

Sahba Motallebi was born in 1978 in Tehran, Iran, and started playing traditional Persian music at an early age. She is a graduate of Tehran Conservatory and has studied tar and setar under master players Fariborz Azizi and Hossein Alizadeh. She continued her formal studies in composition at St Petersburg Conservatory, Russia and attended the R.G.S University, Turkey, for a comparative study of Persian and Turkish music. Sahba was awarded and recognized as the best Tar player by the Iranian Music Festival for four years in a row. Mehdi Bagheri, born in 1980 in Iran, began playing tonbak & setar at age 11 under the master musician Ramin Taffazoli & studied kamancheh under renowned master of traditional Persian music Ardeshir Kamkar. In 2004 he received his master’s degree from Arak University. He currently lives in California where he composes, records, and teaches kemancheh & setar.

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This performance is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.