Born in 1976 in Khorasan province, one of epicenters of poetry and music north east of Iran, Mohsen Namjoo is a Singer Songwriter, Music scholar and Setar (traditional Persian lute) player currently based in New York City. Featured on many world renowned press such as NY Times, The Guardian, BBC, LA times and many more Namjoo is considered a visionary artist who speaks for the youth in Iran. Seamlessly blending the Classical Persian music and scales with electric guitar,Rock and Blues vocal techniques with Persian Avaz (singing). He fuses the ancient with the current. His unique style of singing and effortless mixture of music from east and west has made him an iconic persona in contemporary world music.

Since his arrival to the U.S. in 2009, Namjoo has been touring the world to sold out concerts at prestigious halls including Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco; Conservatorio Sala Verdi, Milan, Italy;  Disney Hall and Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Barbican Hall, London, Symphony Space NYC, Volkswagen Arena Istanbul and many more. He is one of the few middle eastern artists who has following all across the world from Tehran to New York to Melbourne to Istanbul to Berlin and many more cities.

Alireza Ghorbani was born in January 31st, 1972 in Tehran. He started his vocal lessons when he was 12, and he was a solo vocalist of National Orchestra when he was 27. Alireza Ghorbani also became at thirty years a foreground singer of the Persian song. His very ramified repertory constitutes the radif and the tasnif, whose vocal rarest techniques are very well controlled from him. He occurs in small formation, with four musicians, as with the national Orchestra of Iran.

Alireza Ghorbani is a great artist deeply rooted in the tradition but also of an insatiable curiosity and a large open-mindedness with respect to the other cultures.

The handsomely chiseled features of Ali Reza Ghorbani have become part of the new generation of Iranian singers of classical Persian music. Born in the midst of the turbulence of 1970s and 80s Iran, Ghorbani has laid claims to being a worthy successor of the man regarded as the undisputed master of Persian classical song, Mohammed Reza Shajarian.

He has released 19 albums in Iran and Europe until now. Also he participated in several international projects, some multi-cultural (Iran, France, India, Mali) projects in Europe like: Le Rhythm De La Parole, SOUFFLES DU MONDE (released in Europe) and some other projects such as cooperation with Dorsaf Hamdani Tunisian singer, concert with the Dusseldorf Symphony Orchestra, Concert with Kamel Orchestra Vienna, performance at the Cologne Philharmonic, and concert with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra.

Ghorbani has had a great deal of cooperation with cinema and television artists, and has sang some of the famous pieces in Iran’s serials. The most important of these are the “Sheb-e Dahom”,” “Madar-e Sefr Darajeh”, “Kimia” and “Aghigh”and very famous cinema series “Hamgonah”.

He is invited to several numbers of international music festivals every year and is recognized as the most active traditional singer outside of Iran. He has performed at major venues such as Cadogan Hall and Barbican in London, the Philharmonic Hall of Cologne, the Vienna Concert house, the Theater du Louvles and the Alhambra in Paris, the Tonhalle in Duesseldorf and the Opera House in Vancouver. Theatre De La Ville in Paris, Rose Hall in Los Angeles, Gulbenkian Hall in Lisbon, Odeon Concert Hall in Vienna, Bozar concert Hall in Brussel, Womex 2017 in Poland, Uppsala Concert Hall in Sweden and etc.

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