VOA Live Interview (in Persian/Farsi), November 2008
Rumi Forum Interview, February 2008, featured on Matter & Beyond TV programs on Music Healing & Spirituality
The album ‘Roya’, featured here, was released in August 2007, represents Roya Bahrami's second album with all her original compositions including her continued work in Persian-flamenco fusion and one in which she sings and plays all the instruments.
Roya performs regularly at educational and cultural institutions in Washington D.C. area, such as the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution's Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Library of Congress. She has also performed at similar venues in New York, West Virginia, Oregon, and the state of Washington. In 1999, she appeared on Spain’s national television Program “Imaginaria” broadcast live from Granada, Spain, and later that year released her first CD entitled Probe, in which she explored the melding of Persian melodies with other musical traditions. In 2004 Roya composed santur pieces for the celebrated flamenco dancer, Carmela Greco, and accompanied Ms. Greco on her 2004-2005 U.S. tour. With her recent work in Persian-Flamenco, in March 2008 she appeared in concert at the Museum of Flamenco Dance in Seville, Spain, accompanied by Seville's great percussionist Antonio Montiel.
Roya regularly offers lecture-recitals on: “Classical Music of Persia,” “Music and Spirituality,” “Understanding Multi-Cultural Identity through Artistic Expression,” and “Traces of Ancient Persian Melodies in Andalusia.”
Roya was born and raised in Iran and moved to the US in 1977. She has studied the Persian Classical repertoire (radif) with the leading masters of the art form on the Persian instruments: santur, setar and tar with Maestros Lotfi, Alizadeh, and Talai.
She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.
