CLANDESTINO FESTIVAL Thursday 4th of July - Kulturhuset Bergsjön

Khorshid Dadbeh [Rotterdam]

As a seven-year-old in her native Iran, Khorshid Dadbeh started playing the string instrument setar together with her father. This eventually led to her embarking on a career as a professional musician at the age of sixteen, joining international tours to Europe and North Africa.  

In parallel she studied at the Tehran Conservatory of Music, specialising in two other long-necked lutes besides the setar: tar – a relatively young instrument – and tanbour, which is associated with ancient sufi music and has a history stretching back thousands of years. The tanbour is sometimes said to be the origin of both the Indian sitar, the Greek bouzouki and the Spanish guitar. 

Later Khorshid Dadbeh continued her studies in the Netherlands, where she added the Turkish string instrument bağlama to her tool box. Together with her brother Sepand Dadbeh she leads the music collective Jansouz, incorporating several different constellations that let her pursue her many musical visions. But as the opening act of Clandestino Festival 2024 she will perform solo.

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