Arsen Petrosyan

For the first time acclaimed duduk player Arsen Petrosyan will collaborate with lauded Iranian musicians Mehdi Rostami and Adib Rostami. "360 degrees of Persian perfection." (***** Songlines) ARSEN PETROYSAN (duduk) Arsen has recently emerged as one of his generation’s main proponents of the Armenian duduk. Following in the footsteps of established duduk masters such as Djivan Gasparian and his mentor Gevorg Dabaghyan, Petrosyan has managed to carve out his own pathway through diverse collaborations with Steve Hackett (Genesis), Emirati composer Ihab Darwish, oudist Ara Dinkjian, Omar Bashir among others. MEHDI ROSTAMI (Setar) Mehdi Rostami was born in Kermanshah, Iran. Having started learning setar at the age of six, he pursued advanced studies with Ustad Mohammadreza Lotfi and took masterclasses with Hossein Alizadeh and Kayhan Kalhor. In 2010 Mehdi started his own collaborative projects in the UK, working with musicians from different cultures such as Maya Yousef and Tara Jaff. ADIB ROSTAMI (Kamancheh) Adib Rostami has played and recorded with Mehdi for many years; integrating influences from Kurdish traditional music and from the Fars province. Rooted in ancient Iranian musical tradition, their pieces present a fresh, contemporary perspective, with the technical and creative powers of the two young musicians evident throughout their work. The Rostami cousins have arrived at such a level of mastery, that in each performance they open a luminous window to musical discovery to any new listener.