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Shahriyar Jamshidi

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#Kurdish & 🇨🇦 #kamānche player/composer/vocalist/founder of #DilanEnsemble | Recent released #MySunsetLand_ROJAVA | Multilingual Posts 👉 shahriyarjamshidi.com

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Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Feb 6

"Eyes stared at this endless horizon while sun sets gradually from azure to red in a day of Spring!"

My piece "Viyan" celebrates the life of a hero woman #ViyanPeyman who sang & fought in #Rojava...

Artwork: #ZehraDoğan
Video: Zanyar Omrani

#Kobanî #Kurdistan #Kurdishmusic #MySunsetLand_ROJAVA

Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · 4d

“Look at me: I have nothing to wear, nothing to eat. And yet I’m still alive, my friend…"

The sad story of the legendary Dengbêj singer #KarapeteXaco, who witnessed the Armenian genocide in Turkey, he lost his family there too.

By: Salihê Kevirbirî

kurdistanchronicle.com/babat/4195?f...

A photo of the legendary Kurdish Dengbêj singer, Karapete Xaco, was published on the Kurdistan Chronicle front page.

Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · 10d

Very excited to see music from #MySunsetLand_Rojava album accompanying the five episode mini series podcast "Women's revolution in North East Syria" #Rojava by Virginia Li!

Pir kêyfxwşim ku dibiînim berhema min di podcasta Rojava de tê bikar anîn.

👉🏿 afterthefallpod.libsyn.com

#Kurdishwomen

The poster of "After the Fall" podcast, which is the image of a Kurdish freedom fighter woman from back with plaited and decorated hair, while she holds up her left hand pointing fingers as a Victory symbol.

Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · 12d

We are excitedly looking forward to seeing you at our concert again.

Em bi kelecanek mezin dîsa li benda dîtina we hemûyan li konsera xwe de ne.

ئێمە بەوپەڕەی خۆشحاڵییەوە چاوەڕێی بینینی دووبارەی هەمووتانین لە کۆنسێرتەکەماندا

Tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/ber-bi-aso...

#TORONTOEVENTS #KURDISHMUSIC

Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · 16d

Pomegranate seeds symbolize the philosophy of Life & Death, which comes from the Kurdish Zoroastrian spiritual beliefs - Kurdish native people have been living in the heart of the Zagros Mountains in West Asia for thousands of years.

youtube.com/shorts/ig3PC...

#KurdishMusic #Kamancha #Youtube

October 1, 2025

YouTube video by Shahriyar Jamshidi

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Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · 22d

Looking forward to seeing you at our concert again. ✌🏾

Ez li benda dîtina we hemûyan li konsera me me.

چاوەڕێی بینینی هەمووتانم لە کۆنسێرتەکەمان.

👉🏾 Get your tickets in advance: www.eventbrite.ca/e/ber-bi-aso...

#TorontoConcerts #TorontoEvents #KurdishMusic #MuzîkaKurdî #TorontoLiveMusic #Concerts

Ber bi Asoyê ve (Toward the Horizon)

Dilan Ensemble will be performing a Kurdish Music Concert at Annette Studios with guests Kazim Boran & Hezil, directed by Shahriyar Jamshidi

www.eventbrite.ca

Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · 27d

#Bandcamp artists in North America celebrate #BandcampFriday today - get a copy of my last recording #MySunsetLand_ROJAVA, all profits of this project will be going to support suffering #Yazidi women from the 2014 genocide in Iraq.

📸: Zehra Dogan

👉 shahriyarjamshidi.bandcamp.com/album/my-sun...

The cover page of the My Sunset-Land, Rojava album by Kurdish visual artist Zehra Dogan and music of Kurdish Kamancha player and composer Shahriyar Jamshidi, which was released in 2020.

Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Aug 30

"If we cut arts investment, our country will lose the very conditions that make #Canada a place where innovation & creativity can flourish." [Canadian Arts Coalition]

#CANADIANS! IF YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF ARTS & CULTURE IN CANADA, 👉SIGN THE PETITION:

win.newmode.net/canadianarts...

The screenshot of the poster which shows the Canadian Arts Coalition's campaign asking the federal government to not decrease the funds of Arts and Heritage in Canada.

Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Aug 22

I return to Canadian Music Centre, bringing my new original pieces to perform & sing a solo concert inspired by Autumn under the philosophical title of Abscission, “Gallārizhān” in #Kurdish #Sorani گەڵاڕێژان or in #Kurmanji phonetics “Gellarêjan”.

👉 www.eventbrite.ca/e/abscission...

#Torontoevents

Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Aug 6

The unforgettable memory of the iconic #Kurdish poet ‎Sherko Bekas, while he visited Iran and was our guest in Tehran, in 1998.

بۆ بیرەوەری، وێنەیەکی بە دەگمەن بینراوە لە شاعیری بە ناوبانگی کورد ‎شێرکۆ بێکەس، ساڵی ۱۹۹۸ کاتێک لە شاری تاران میوانداری ئەو هونەرمەندە هەست جوانە بووین.
#KurdishCulture

The less-seen photo of the iconic Kurdish poet Sherko Bekas, while he visited Iran in 1998, shows him wearing a pair of eyeglasses and posing for the camera (left); the Kurdish Kamāncha player and composer Shahriyār Jamshidi is wearing a sleeveless shirt and watching the camera too.

Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Aug 5

The redolence of the Zagros mountains spreads in the time the sleepy sun cuddles the wettish loving soil.

youtube.com/shorts/VTU_R...

#KurdishKamancha #Kurdishmusic #Muzikakurdi #Rojgelat #Kamancha

July 14, 2025

YouTube video by Shahriyar Jamshidi

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Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Aug 1

Excited about #BandcamFriday, it's a best time to support musicians on #Bandcamp.

Do you know the revenues of my recent recording #MySunsetLand_ROJAVA are going to support suffering #Yazidi Women from genocide?

shahriyarjamshidi.bandcamp.com/album/my-sun...

#Independentmusicians #KurdishMusic

The Kurdish Kamancha player Shahriyar Jamshidi wears the traditional Kurdish costume playing Kamancha on stage at Canada's Ontario Contact Festival 2016.

Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Jul 25

A short video of my group, "Dilan Chamber Ensemble", which performed at Roudaki Hall in 2004, regardless of all limitations and suppressions that the Mullahs' regime in Iran has imposed on the indigenous Kurdish people.

youtube.com/shorts/oVaos...

#kurdishmusic #YouTube #DilanEnsemble #Kurdistan

July 7, 2025

YouTube video by Shahriyar Jamshidi

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Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Jul 22

Do you know you can listen to my released albums on #Spotify?

👉Ma hûn dizanin ku dikarin li ser Spotify li hemî albûmên min ên derketine guhdarî bikin?

👈ئایا دەزانن کە بە ئاسانی دەتوانن گوێ لە هەموو بەرهەمەکانم لە #سپاتیفای بگرن؟
➡️ open.spotify.com/artist/4zlEe...

#Spotifyforartists

An image of the Kurdish Kamancha player Shahriyar Jamshidi includes the details of his Spotify account.

Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Jul 15

"ئەی گوڵی زه‌رد"

تۆ هه‌ر ده‌ژیت
ڕه‌گت هه‌یه
له دووره شوێن گڕت هه‌یه
تۆ هه‌ر ده‌ژیت
ڕه‌گت هه‌یه
له دووره شوێن گڕت هه‌یه
له ناو هه‌موو تنۆکێک خوێن.
ئەی گوڵی زه‌رد، ئەی گوڵی زه‌رد، ئەی گوڵی زه‌رد، ئەی گوڵی زه‌رد

#عەبدوڵڵا_پەشێو

#AbdullaPashew

youtube.com/shorts/y0Z49...

#A_YellowFlower #گوڵی_زەرد #موزیکی_کوردی

March 23, 2024

YouTube video by Shahriyar Jamshidi

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Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Jul 14

I'm thrilled to become a member of the Canadian Music Centre | Centre de musique canadienne "Associate Composer" community. This is an important step to recognize musicians with non-Western musical educations & the diverse musical genres in Canada!

📸: Curtis Perry

#Kurdishmusic #Kurdishmusician

An image of Kurdish Kamncha player and Composer SHAHRIYAR JAMSHIDI publicizes his appointment as a member of the Canadian Music Centre "Associate Composer".

Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Jun 30

Tucara te ji bîr nakim lo ser te re kesî nakim
Ger sed sal jî derbasbî lo, soza xwe xera nakim
De berde de berde
Lawo destê min berde
Evînî bi kul û derd e
Lawiko destê min berde ...

#Kurdishmusic #Muzikakurdi #kamãncha #Kurdishdiaspora #Kurdishlanguage #kurdishculture

Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Jun 17

Many thanks, I appreciate your support🌺🙏🏾

Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Jun 17

I am sharing a segment of my long solo concert at Sound Symposium XXI, performed at D.F. Cook Recital Hall, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada in July 2024.

👉 PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL👈

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ofu...

#Instrumentalmusic #Youtube #Video #Kurdishmusic

Kamāncha Improvisation in Elaweysî Mode – Shahriyar Jamshidi | Sound Symposium XXI

YouTube video by Shahriyar Jamshidi

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Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Jun 12

Eastern musical model shapes the harmony with melodies and has a relationship with all tones. Absolutely, the Dengbêjî style would be composed in multi or polyphonic form. Considering the concepts of the art in east in contrast with West or European models it's more abstractive and conceptualistic.

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Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Jun 12

Yes, we agreed about the unique techniques in solo Dengbêjî genre; the eastern culture are more individualistic, and the polyphony in Eastern music is not fitted nor comparable to the horizontal layering western harmony in music. We have stabilised and smart melodic based vocal styles too!

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Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Jun 12

Good point; The opera root is related to the medieval fancy culture & it's entirely different from eastern solo vocal music; the loneliness & self-consciousness of individuals powering vocal music in east meanwhile the natural counterpoints connect mono improvised Dengbêjî pieces internally.

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Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Jun 12

Many thanks for your comment! The record is part of a love story and musical Dengbêjî (bard) storytelling piece - highlighting the natural communication between two young lovers in Kurdish Kurmanji in old-world.

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Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Jun 9

A segment of the Dengbêjî (storytelling) piece from our last live show at the Canadian Music Centre on May 31.

Perçeyek ji konsera me ya 31ê Gulanê bi dengê geş ê Hezil.

#muzîkakurdî #dengbêj #kurdishmusic #Canada #Kurdistan #dengbêjî
#kemançe #kamancha #vocals

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Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · Jun 6

Overwhelmed with gratitude for the #Canada Arts Council’s support of my composition project at Banff Musicians in Residence 2025 at @banffcentre.bsky.social. Your recognition motivates me to strive for even greater achievements in my music journey.

#Awardswinning #Canadianmusic #Kurdishmusic

The image of the Kurdish Kamancha player Shahriyar Jamshidi at the Rolston Recital hall at Banff Centre wearing Kurdish clothes and holding his musical instrument Kamancha. The logos of the Canada Arts Council and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity are located below the image; the acknowledgment details also is located on the top of the image.

Shahriyar Jamshidi @dilanensemble.bsky.social · May 22

You're invited to our duo concert presenting #Kurdish music at #Toronto 's music heritage venue Canadian Music Center on May 31.

👉🏿Space is limited, get your tickets today! www.eventbrite.ca/e/baye-bakur...

👉🏿Em bi kelecanek mezin li benda we ne.
چاوەڕێی دیداری ئێوەین

#Torontolife #kurdishmusic

Bayê Bakûr (Northern Breeze)

Kurdish themes from Zagros Mountains through Çiyayê Agirî (Ararat) mountain area present in solo kamānche pieces, Dengběi and Strān (song).