Faraz Minooei
Contemporary Classical Iranian
santur player and composer
Video
- Music Album: Bara
My New music album with Golnaz Khazei (released on July, 8th, 2022)
For album please visit www.csharp-int.com
Recorded at FAME studio (Florence Alabama Music Enterprises)
Mixing: Sahba Sizdahkhani
Mastering: Stephen Marsh (Marsh Mastering)
Artwork: Matin Nasiriha
- Zindagi
- santur: Made by Mehdi Nazemi (Performed vy Faraz Minooei) - Avaaz Abu-Ata
- Parakandeh (Arrangement for santur by Faraz Minooei)
Original Composition for santur by Faramarz Payvar
Arrangement for Orchestra by Faraz Minooei
Composed by Kayhan Kalhor,
Performed by Silk Road Ensemble and Yo-Yo Ma with guests from the Manhattan School of Music.
Lincoln Center, N.Y.
(June 5-9, 2009)
This is not the complete version of the piece.
- Santur Solo. Echomerz Concert, Oakland, California.
- Ziafat - Homayoun Khosravi with Faraz Minooei
- San Francisco
Composition and Performance: Faraz Minooei
Video: Mohammad Kheirkhah
December 2014
- Upsiring
- Echomerz - Composed by Faraz Minooei
- Bidarkojaa
پنجه ميكشم بر ديوار،
انگشتانم به خون نشسته اند،
كه در اين غربت "خوشحـــال"،
دريچه اى غمناك ولى پرمعنا بيابم.
جسمم، روحم، فكرم، وجودم،
همه در تلاشيم كه به خود برگرديم.
سنتورم مرا ميفهمد. بيچاره سازيست.
هراز گاهى او نيز خون ميگريد و هواى دشتستانى، كه بوى وطن،
اما هر دو بيگانه ايم، و در بيگانگى
در وطنيم بسى، اما چه سرابى كه شبهى بيش نيست اين در وطن پنداريمان.
آرى، من مهاجرم.
مهاجر بيدركجا آبادى كه سر خود را با روزمرگى "گول ميزنم"، تا غربت را نفهمم.
تنم در وطنم نيست، و فقط تَنَن تََنَن مرا به وطن، آرى وطن، نزديكتر ميكند.
تا سحر ميتَنانَم تا غم وطن فراموش كنم.
نشیب
Music Director for the "The Fifth String" Play. May 2nd-4th, 2014 at the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California (Oakland)
- Improvisation
- Santur Improvisation in Isfahan by Faraz Minooei in 2009 at Santa Clara Convention Center.
- "Myth of Tear", composed by Faraz Minooei, was performed on March 2010 in Smithsonian (Meyer Auditorium), Washington DC.
- Mythical Truth
University of California Irvine, on May, 28th, 2009.
Faraz Minooei (Performer and composer)
Helen Sage Howard (actress)
Instrument: Santur
Piece: “Mythical Truth”
*** I go to sleep and start dreaming. The dream is so clear that I perceive it as real, and now the dream is reality. While I am being practical and involved with reality in my dream, I wake up and realize that the dream was surreal. “The reality” and “the dream” were the same. I get up and get ready to face the real reality, but I die, and face another reality. And again I was tricked to perceive the life as real. ***