Behfar Bahadoran – Past Concerts

Behfar Bahadoran, born in Tehran, Iran, studied under Iranian classical and folkore music masters including Homayoun Khorram, Ramin Rahimi, Ali-Akbar Moradi, Darioush Talaei, and Hamid Motebassem. Behfar is a visual arts graduate from Maryland Institute College of Art and is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and a multidisciplinary visual artist. He founded Pezhvak Ensemble in 2008 and currently works as the band leader and cofounder of Sorvad Ensemble. He worked and performed alonaside notorious international musicians and artists such as Majid Derakhshani, Alireza Shahmohammadi, Pejman Hadadi, Pezhham Akhavass, Dawn Avery, John Wubbenhorst, Larry Mitchel, Kazem Davoudian, Susan Deyhim, and Mogan Shajarian. Behfar has performed regularly at many prestigious venues in the United States including the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco; Lincoln Center and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Kennedy Center and the Freer Shackler Gallery in Washington D.C.