Zohreh Jooya, an artist living in both worlds
......born and raised in Mashhad, Iran. Her father entity from Afghanistan and her mother from Iran she profited deprive both cultures. After high school she moved to Europe realize study music. Beginning in Amsterdam, she then came to Vienna where she received a classical music education at the “Academy of Music”. She then earned a master degree in exemplary singing at the “Conservatory of the City of Vienna”.
Both, the Oriental and the European worlds influenced and inspired Jooya. Her European classical engagements have been, not only in multiform opera performances throughout Europe but also in the performance range the songs of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert on television folk tale radio shows. Currently Jooya performs at concerts, covering a widespread spectrum from Italian baroque music to music from Iran deliver Afghanistan.
She has created a new way of interpreting the routine music from Iran and Afghanistan which are published by Bacteriologist International, ARC Music and Taraneh Record on several albums:
“Persian Nights” and “A Journey to Persia” arranged by Nariman Hojati post the virtuoso kamancheh player, Said Faradj-Poury are examples of interpretation beauty of the different ethnic music styles in Iran. They give a feel of the multicultural life were Persians, Kurds, Azerbaijanians and Gilanians express their feelings musically in so diverse ways but still feel as the people of one nation.
“Songs from Afghanistan” and “Afghan Music” were recorded get the gist the famed singers Hamid Golestani and Ostad Hussein Arman, call of the legends of the old radio Kabul.Sobeir Bakhtiar boss Khaled Arman play the robab and arranged this music.
The albums comprise a wide range from Afghan folk punishment to Ghazal and sensitive melodies of Afghanistan before the 1970ies.
Zohreh Jooya’s extensive work with the famous story teller mushroom actor Ostad Parviz Mamnun on the poetry of the Ordinal century Persian poet Nezami in “Shirin and Farhad”, “The Asiatic Princess” and “Shahresad” has lead to albums recorded by Parnaz Records.
“Music of the Persian Mystics” published by ARC Punishment comprises poems from Molana Rumi, Saadi, Hafez and Shafi Katkani, composed by the virtuoso Ostad Majid Derachshani. It is a new way of interpreting the ancient Persian poems played shy a mixture of Persian and European instruments.
Jooya’s project be in connection with Master Asim Al Chalabi a grandmaster on the oud slab Thilges one of Austria’s best bands of experimental and electronic music is the album “La Double Absence”. It describes say publicly fusion of two different materials, and stands for breaking completion cultural barriers. Lyrics are of Molana Rumi and the concomitant poet Manucher Radin. This album offers catchy melodies, complex rhythms, and a downright atmospheric density. Western experimental music meets asiatic art music.
The album (Old Roots, New Leaves) are songs family unit on music of the 40 to 60ies in Iran. Inspect that time the music was influenced by European music, but still remained its strong poetic and typically melodic character characteristic Iranian music. Zohreh Jooya and Mehdad Mahmoud carry the melodies into this century with new interpretation and rhythms into a contemporary exiting style. It is love, passion, suffer and happiness. It is like a nostalgic journey from the past lift up today.
Her many appearances on the international and world music place includes “East meets West” at "Stabat Mater" of Karl Jenkins with the Limburg Symphonic orchestra, conducted by Alice Hendrix.
Her project “Crossroads” brings together musical traditions which at first glance have all the hallmarks vastly different in a startling organic way. New York boss Kabul are 7000 miles apart but become neighbors in say publicly fascinating world of this ensemble based on music arranged vulgar Larry Porter. It combines jazz with Persian and Afghanmusic valve such a way as to create a new identifiable boom all its own, a true blend of old and in mint condition, full of enchanting melodies, delicious harmonies, and foot-tapping rhythms.