Shahriyar Jamshidi

• Name — Shahriyar Jamshidi • Born — 1971 • Birthplace — Kermanshah, Iran • Genre — * Kurdish music • West Asian Music • Occupation — * Kamancheh player • composer • Instrument — Kamancheh • Years Active — 1990–present • Associated Acts — * Windsor Symphony Orchestra • Dilan Ensemble • Kamancello • Website — shahriyarjamshidi.com

Shahriyar was born in a Kurdish family in Kermanshah, the Kurdish city in the west of Iran. Due to limitations following the Iranian Revolution in 1978, he was not able to study music until age 17. He received private music lessons under the supervision of Mahmoud Merati for two years before studying music at Tehran University of Art. He continued his music studies under various teachers including Ahmad Pejman, Houshang Kamkar, Ardeshir Kamkar and Taghi Binesh. He also worked under the directorship of the well known Kurdish Kamancheh player Mojtaba Mirzadeh.

• As a Kamanche soloist, Jamshidi has been participating at International Security for Improvised Music Conference in Château-d'Œx, Switzerland; Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada; Ontario Contact Conference; 33rd World Conference of International Society for Music Education in Baku, Azerbaijan in July 2018; University of Glasgow in 2023, and the biennial Canadian Sound Symposium (XXI) in St John's, Newfoundland in 2024. • He established Dilan Ensemble in the memory of the Kurdish composer Qadir Dîlan in 2003; had performances in several Iranian cities including Roudaki Hall Tehran; Tirgan Festival; High-Fest Festival in Yerevan, Armenia in 2015; and McMaster University in 2018. • Jamshidi also as a co-founder and performer of the Canadian Kamanche / Cello Duo Kamancello, has performed at Festival du Monde Arabe de Montréal in 2015; Cello Biënnale Amsterdam in 2018; collaborated with Maestro Robert Franz in 2019 and Windsor Symphony Orchestra playing "Convergence Suite for Kamancello"; and performed with Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in 2024. • He had musical collaboration with Richard Robeson in recording his album Meet me in Tangier in 2016; and with a music professor Alex Lubet in University of Minnesota School of Music in 2018. • Jamshidi has been working individually and with different groups including Chakad Ensemble under the direction of Alireza Javaheri to collaborate with Bahman Rajabi at Farabi Amphitheater in 2000.