Hossein 'Oumomi - Persian Classical Music (1993)

Hossein Omoumi was born in Isfahãn, Iran, and began his musical education singing with his father. At age 14 he began to study the Ney, the traditional reed flute of Iran. In 1962, Omoumi entered the National University of Iran to study architecture, but also played the ney in musical competitions, later entering the National Conservatory of Music in Tehran.
His performance career has included appearances at many of the major festivals and concert halls in Europe and the United States, including San Francisco’s World Music Festival, UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall and Wadsworth Theater the Getty Center, in Los Angeles, the World Music Institute and Asia Society in New York, and Theatre de la Ville in Paris.
Omoumi is a noted scholar and teacher of Persian music, having served on the National Conservatory and Tehran University in Tehran, Center for Oriental Music Studies of Sorbonne University in Paris, UCLA in Los Angeles and the Ethnomusicology department of the University of Washington in Seattle. He is now Maseeh Professor in Persian Performing Arts of music at the University of California, Irvine, UCI. He is also an architect, having received his Doctorate from the University of Florence, Italy.
His research on the making of the Ney and percussion opened new possibilities and introduced significant innovations to the Ney, Tombak and Daf.

01-07. Dastgâh-e Homâyun
08-12. Avâz-e Dashti
13-21. Dastgâh-e Châhârgâh

Hossein 'Omoumi - ney
Madjid Khaladj - tombak, daf

Recorded in 24-25 June 1992
Released by Nimbus Records in 1993

Humbly dedicated to Chris Kenmo.

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Shivkumar Sharma & Zakir Hussain - Rag Madhuvanti, Rag Misra Tilang (1988)

"Shivkumar Sharma is accompanied on this album by Zakir Hussain. Nimbus's importance as the first CD pressing plant in Britain meant that its recording wing had developed a keen and early appreciation of the technology and potential of CD production.
A beautiful, sensitively played pairing." ~ Ken Hunt, All Music Guide

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"Pandit Shivkumar Sharma and Zakir Hussain are two titans of the Indian classical tradition. They have collaborated together since the 1980s, and are now acknowledged as the living masters of Indian music on the world stage.

A Grammy winner, National Heritage Fellowship recipient, Hussain is one of India’s most renowned cultural ambassadors and among the leading musicians of his generation. He is a master of the tabla, a classical percussion instrument made of hardwood, natural hide, and silver. At Duke, Hussain will appear with Sharma, who has enraptured audiences for over 50 years with his mastery of the santur, a hammered dulcimer famous for its lush, shimmering sound and known in India as the Shata Tantri Veena or “hundred-stringed lute.” Hussain and Sharma are simply the most accomplished instrumentalists of their kind in the world, musicians whose dazzling art remains deeply engaged in a national culture even while reaching beyond it.



Their performance, showcasing the intricate compositions from the North Indian classical tradition, is a fit end to a Duke Artists Series aimed at honoring the depth and reach of classical music today." in duke performances

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Shivkumar Sharma : santur
Zakir Hussain : tabla
Varatha Luxmie : tambura

Recorded at Wyastone Leys, 11 June 1987

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1. Rag Madhuvanti (35'31'')
2. Rag Misra Tilang (35'37'')

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