Music
The Iranian composer/setarist Anoosh Jahanshahi, first performed his compositions of new settings of poems from Hafez, in the classical Persian style (musighi-e assil), at the Glasgow Print Studio on 4 September 2005. He has subsequently been invited to perform his music at the Lewes Live Arts Festival in October 2006 and at St Thomos' Cathedral Portsmouth on 17 September 2007.
His music forms the sound track for the animation film, Tongue of the Hidden.
“ Anoosh's visit from Iran leaves pupils spellbound ”
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/people/Anoosh39s-visit-from-Iran-leaves.3223791.jp
Sally Beamish and Jila Peacock's first music/image collaboration was The Seafarer, an Anglo-Saxon poem that inspired a muliti-media piano trio with voice and visual projections. This music became the basis for Beamish's 2nd Viola Concerto, The Seafarer.
Her setting of the poems, Four Songs from Hafez, for Mark Padmore, tenor, and Roger Vingoles, piano, was first performed at the Leeds Lieder Festival on 12 October 2007. The Lion &the Deer, an oratorio for counter-tenor Michael Chance with choir, orchestra and children's voices was premiered at St Thomos' Cathedral Portsmouth on 11 November 2007.
“ Beamish premiere/ Leeds Lieder Leeds ”
http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/livereviews/story/0,,2191280,00.html
“ Music/ Poetry /Art outreach project at Portsmouth Grammar school September 2007. Anoosh Jahanshahi and Jila Peacock ”