Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is pleased to share that the “Rameshgari Project” concert by Sepideh Raissadat was successfully held on September 17, 2016, in front of a full house at Walter Hall, Faculty of Music, the University of Toronto. Funded by Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute, the “Rameshgari Project” aims to rehabilitate the nearly forgotten traditional collaborative form of tasnif-composing. One of the oldest and most representative arts of the Iranian culture, tasnif (or the Persian ballad) combines voice, classical music, poetry and social expression.
Ms. Sepideh Raissadat is a Persian classical vocalist and musician, who began her recording career at the age of 18 and was the first female vocalist to have a solo public performance in Iran after the 1979 revolution. Her major soloist instrument is the Setar. She has studied with the famous Iranian Diva Parissa and with renowned masters Parviz Meshkatian and Mohammad-Reza Lofti. She has been invited to perform by many prestigious institutions, including UNESCO, the Vatican, the BBC and RAI. Ms. Raissadat is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto, where she obtained her M.A. in Ethnomusicology.