Joint Faculty Recital: Davide Ianni & Nima Janmohammadi

Name: Joint Faculty Recital: Davide Ianni & Nima Janmohammadi
Start: 2025-03-10T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Jordan Hall

Schedule

Mon, 10 Mar, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Jordan Hall | Boston, MA

In a joint faculty concert between Nima Janmohammadi and Davide Ianni, contemporary classical pairs with improvised Persian music. Ianni’s evocative solo works on the program explore the spectrum of sound, tone color, and temporalities for atypical soloists of electric guitar and contrabass clarinet. Janmohammadi presents his string quintet and performs an improvised set on setar with acclaimed Persian percussionist Pejman Hadadi.
Program
Ianni: [Ni] for electric guitar
Janmohammadi: Museum of Lost Clouds
Ianni: Dedalo Nero for contrabass clarinet
—--intermission—---
Nima Janmohammadi & Pejman Hadadi Improvisation
About the performers
Pierre Bibault is a versatile classical and electric guitarist, recognized for his virtuosity, innovative interpretation, and dedication to contemporary music. Trained as a classical musician, he is both a soloist, chamber musician, and researcher, specializing in the most demanding and avant-garde repertoires. Since 2016, he has been the Artistic Director of the Festival International de Guitare en Béarn. Currently based in Boston, he dedicates himself to his artistic career while regularly giving masterclasses and lectures worldwide. He holds a Ph.D. in Arts with a dissertation on Gesture in Zad Moultaka’s music for solo guitar, as well as three Master’s degrees in Performance, Musicology, and Pedagogy.
Jean-François Charles
Composer and Associate Professor at the University of Iowa, Jean-François Charles is also a clarinetist, an electronic musician, and a Max Certified Trainer. As a clarinetist, he has performed with classical, jazz, and other sound artists, from Maurice Merle to Douglas Ewart or Gozo Yoshimasu. He worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen for the world premiere and studio recording of Rechter Augenbrauentanz (Stockhausen-Verlag CD #59). His album Electroclarinet was awarded prizes at the Global Music Awards in both categories Contemporary Classical Album and Composition/Composer. The music was reviewed as full of drama and drive (Dolf Mulder, Vital Weekly) or colorful and jazzy, giving the listener a plethora of timbral explosions (Lori Ardovino, The Clarinet Journal).
Pejman Hadadi
An internationally renowned percussionist, Pejman Hadadi is a proficient player of tombak and daf, the two drums of Iranian classical and folk musics. For the past thirty years, he has been teaching traditional styles of tombak playing and the theory of Persian rhythmic cycles to students in the US, Europe, and Iran. He received the prestigious Durfee Foundation Master Musician Award twice for dissemination and propagation of Persian music in the US. Since 1999, Pejman has composed a large body of music for dance, which he has performed extensively in international festivals with renowned Iranian master musicians, dancers and choreographers.