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Darya Dadvar دريا دادور | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | February 20, 1971 |
| Origin | Mashhad, Iran |
| Genres | Classical, World music[1] Persian classical music |
| Occupation(s) | Soprano, Composer |
| Website | www |
Darya Dadvar[2] (Persian: دريا دادور, born in Mashhad, Iran) is an Iranian soprano soloist and composer living in Paris, France.
Education[edit]
Darya was born in Mashhad in 1971, but she grew up in Tehran in a Gilak family. In 1991, at the age of twenty, she left Iran for France, where she studied music. She graduated from The National Conservatory in Toulouse, France. She earned her Diplôme d'Etudes Musicales in voice in June 1999 and, subsequently, completed a four-year professional course in the Baroque style at the Conservatory of Toulouse in 2000. Darya also holds a postgraduate Master of Arts degree from the School of Fine Arts of Toulouse (Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse).
Career[edit]
Darya has given concert performances in Canada, France, Germany, Iran, Sweden, the United Kingdom and United States of America. In 2002, Darya was a guest performer in Tehran with the Armenian Symphony Orchestra in the role of Tahmineh, in work composed and directed by Loris Tjeknavorian based on the tragedy of Rostam and Sohrab, one of the fascinating tales of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh (The Book of Kings). Apart from singing in English, French, German, Italian and Persian, Darya performs in various native languages of Iran, such as Armenian, Azeri, Gilaki, Kurdish and Mazandarani.
See also[edit]
- Music of Iran
- List of Iranian musicians
- List of famous Persian women
- Iranian women and Persian music
Notes[edit]
- ^ Maximillien De Lafayette (2013). The Greatest,the Most Important and the Most Powerful Women of the Middle East and the Arab World. Lulu.com. pp. 547–. ISBN 978-1-304-49145-9.
- ^ Daryā (دريا) (Old Persian: Drayah, Middle Persian: Drayā, Sanskrit: Jrayaḥ) [1] is the Persian word for Sea, or Ocean (similar to the sea), and Dādvar (دادور), a combination of Dād (داد), Justice, and var (ور), a suffix indicative of one's profession or vocation, for Jurist or Chief Justice (in general, someone whose main business is judicial administration of law and equity). For comparison, Dāneshvar, a combination of Dānesh, Knowledge, Science, and var, is the Persian word for Scientist. The word Dādvar is archaic, if not obsolete, and it is conceivable that the contemporary word Dāvar (داور), Arbiter, Arbitrator, Judge, or sports referee may be Dādvar itself, abbreviated through its frequent use over perhaps millennia, or is a direct descendant of it. The "v" in Dādvar should be pronounced as "w" and the "a" as "aa".
[1] Roland G. Kent, Old Persian Studies, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 266-277 (1942).
External links[edit]
- Darya Dadvar's official website
- Darya Dadvar on Facebook
- Darya Dadvar on Instagram
- Darya Dadvar on Spotify
- Interviews with Darya Dadvar: Friday 4 March 2005 (BBC Persian) and Saturday 19 May 2007 (BBC Persian).
- Rostam and Sohrab, by Hakim Abol-Qasem Ferdowsi Tousi, translated into English by Helen Zimmern (Iran Chamber Society).
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