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Dear John,
Art and culture are integral to the Iranian-American experience. We at NIAC are so grateful to the artists that performed at our virtual events since the pandemic began to help us virtually build community and celebrate our heritage. To show our appreciation, we are launching the NIAC Community Artist Series to spotlight singers, dancers, musicians, and other artists honoring our culture.
We will announce two new highlighted artists every week for the next four weeks. Today we will quick off with our very first artist spotlight: Zia Ghiasi!
Zia, a Chicago based musician, plays the piano as his primary instrument - but he actually started his musical journey by learning the setar and the tanbur. In addition to playing these instruments, Zia also lends his talent to music composition, with heavy influence from minimalist piano composers such as Ólafur Arnalds, Yann Tiersen, and the Polish film score composer Zbigniew Preisner. He is now working on one hundred melodies and plans to produce and release more singles in the near future! Read all about Zia and his work on our blog post.
Thank you for joining us in celebrating community artists! The pandemic hit the art and music industry very hard, yet local artists like Zia continued to produce and play music to bring us all light during joy to this dark time.
We look forward to sharing more artists with you in the weeks to come!
Sincerely,
Donna Farvard
Organizing Director, NIAC
PS. You can watch Zia’s performance for NIAC Los Angeles’ Norooz 1400 event here.
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