A Piano Journey Along the Caucasus

This lecture-recital by Dr. Maryam Farshadfar, features piano works from Azerbaijan, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, and Iran. The program explores how traditional melodies and cultural heritage shape classical piano music across the region through both lecture and solo piano performance consisting of:

Düşüncə — Vaqif Mustafazadeh
Étude-Tableau, Op. 39, No. 5 — Sergei Rachmaninoff
Nocturne — Arno Babajanian
When Almonds Blossomed — Giya Kancheli
Rhapsody in Isfahan — Javad Maroufi, arr. Maryam Farshadfar

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Maryam Farshadfar is a pianist and ethnomusicologist whose musical journey began at the age of six. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Montreal, where her award-winning dissertation on the history of the piano in Iran was recognized as an original contribution to the field.

She has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician at venues such as Niavaran Hall in Tehran, the Konzerthaus Freiburg in Germany, and Carnegie Hall. Dr. Farshadfar is currently a full-time music faculty member at San José–Evergreen Valley College, where she established the music associate degree program and founded—and continues to direct—the Evergreen Valley College Ensemble. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.