Yalda Yazdani is an ethnomusicologist, curator and filmmaker born in Iran. A PhD candidate at the University of Siegen, she researches female vocal music in Iran. She founded the festival «Female Voices of Iran» with the Contemporary Opera Berlin. At Nowruz 2024 she gave the keynote «Music of Resilience».
With jazzhane
- 17.03.2024 Nowruz Festival, Moods Zurich
About
Yalda Yazdani is an ethnomusicologist, curator, and filmmaker. She was born in Iran. A Ph.D. student at the University of Siegen in Germany, Yalda received a full scholarship from the House of Young Talents Academy, won the DAAD award (German Academic Exchange Service), and has been conducting fieldwork research about female vocal songs and music in different regions of Iran. For more than 8 years, Yalda has been organizing intercultural projects, documentaries, music workshops, and concerts across Iran and Europe, thereby creating bridges between European and SWANA musicians and artists. In 2017 and 2018, she founded and curated the "Female Voices of Iran" festival in collaboration with the Contemporary Opera Berlin. The festival continued with later editions covering "Female Voices of Afghanistan and Kurdistan". She is currently working on various documentary productions focusing on music and its potential to cross cultural borders.