2008

September 21 to October 5

Namad Ensemble California Tour - Ossyan

Irvine 9/21

San Diego 9/27

Los Angles 9/28

San Francisco 10/02

Berkeley 10/05

July 19

Tirgan Festival

Namad Ensemble & Shiraz Ensemble

Toronto, Canada

June 03

Lecture Demo at Cal State Fullerton

Kourosh Taghavi & Khosro Ansari

April 05

Celebrating Norooz 1387

Torrance Cultural Center

Kourosh Taghavi & Neyreez Ensemble

Torrance, CA

March 14

CSU Fullerton Middle East Music Series

Namad Ensemble

Fullerton, CA

2007

October 20

Fire of Love

University of California Irvine
Clair Trevor Theater

Irvine, CA

September 29

The international conference on Rumi

Concert at the University of Maryland

Hossein Omumi, Kourosh Taghavi, Mehrdad Arabi

Adelphi, MD

September 21

RUMI 800th Birthday

La Jolla Public Library
Kourosh Taghavi and Ali Sadr
La Jolla, CA

August 24

Celebration of Poetry & Music

Forum Hall at UTC - La Jolla, CA

August 11

Angels Knocking at the Tavern Door

An evening of poetry and music by Coleman Barks and Robert Bly with musical accompaniment by Kourosh Taghavi and Mundi

Austin, TX

June 24

Seda Ensemble

San Diego, CA

June 15

A Night of Persian Art for All the Senses

San Diego Museum of Art

San Diego, CA

June 3

Celebration of Poetry & Music

Musical improvisation and poetry declamation on H.A. Sayeh and M. Akhavan Sales works

San Diego, CA

April 7

Nowruz Celebration at University of California San Diego (UCSD)

Classical Persian Music

Kourosh Taghavi and Darvak Ensemble

San Diego, CA

March 28

Nowruz Celebration at Poway Public Library

Introducing the Classical Persian Music, Improvisation in “Chahargah”

Kourosh Taghavi and Ali Sadr

San Diego, CA

March 4

Celebration of Poetry and Music of Iran

Poetry and Music - Forough Farrokhzad

Celebrating the life and poetry of Forough Farrokhzad Original compositions with Namaad Ensemble Listen

La Jolla, CA

2006

December 2

Celebration of Poetry and Music of Iran

Musical Improvisation and Poetry Declamation

Kourosh Taghavi and Darvak Ensemble

Forum Hall at UTC

La Jolla, CA

April through June

Touring with Seda Ensemble performing Master Pieces of Contemporary Persian Classical Music

Los Angeles , Berkeley and San Diego Pictures

June 16 & 17 - Seda Ensemble - Morgan-Wiston Theater - Santa Monica, CA

June 11 - Seda Ensemble - Julia Morgan Theater - Berkeley, CA

June 3 - Seda Ensemble - Irvine United Congregational Church - Irvine, CA

May 31

Lecture at Association of Iranian American Professionals

Forms New approaches in Classical Persian Music”

San Diego, CA

April 8

Original Compositions for “The Butterfly” a play by Bijan Mofid

Original composition and live performance Javaneh website

San Diego, CA

2005

October through December

Raak concert, Original compositions by Kourosh Taghavi Touring with Namaad Ensemble

Santa Monica, Berkeley, Santa Cruz and San Diego

August 27

The Fusion of Persian Melodic Rhythms at the Caravan Festival

Anaheim, CA

May through June

Melodic Rhythms Original compositions by Kourosh Taghavi, Pejman Hadadi, Greg Ellis California Tour

May 7

Lecture at UC Berkeley “A Brief History of the Repertoire of Iranian Classical music the "Radiff" from Qajar through Pahlavi Period”

April 8

An Evening of Persian & Kurdish Music, Neurosciences Institute

The Art of Tasnif & Chahar Mezrab

San Diego, CA

Other Performances

Sufi poetry and Classical Persian Music Touring with Hossein Omoumi and Mehrdad Arabi Seattle

Berkeley , Los Angeles and San Diego

Ancient Songs of Iran

Goosheh Ensemble

Stanford University

Palo Alto, CA

Original Compositions for “The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad” a play by Braham Baize

Berkeley Original composition and live performance

Original Compositions for “ Seven Valleys ” a play by Mansour Taeed

Original composition and live performance

Berkeley, Chicago , Seattle and Irvine