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Donya Kamali

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Donya Kamali[1] was born in 1991 in Kermanshah[2]. She is a talented instrumentalist and a vocalist with a magic voice.

Donya Kamali ‎
 
Born13/04/1991

Biography

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She learnt how to play Tanbour from great Tanbour players such as Darvish Ali Morad Kamali, Darvish Sheykh Morad Kamali and his father, Fereydoun Kamali and her uncles. She started singing at a very early age and mesmerized everyone with her magic voice.


She has achieved several awards since 2001 from Kurdish[3] Music Festivals at the time that she was only a teenager. Donya soon became the main vocalist of the Nishtiman Ensemble founded by the renowned composer and instrumentalist Sohrab Pournazeri[4]. She cooperated with the "Nishtiman 2" project and was the vocalist of the album called "Kobane[5]" composed by Sohrab Pournazeri. She had several performances alongside Sohrab Pournazeri with Nishtiman Ensemble around the world at famous festivals including Forde Festival and Au Fil Des Voix[6][7]. She has also worked with Tahmoures Pournazeri,[8] who is also a great composer and musician, in well-known projects such as Female Voices of Iran which was held in Gutenberg.

She has played Tanbour alongside Kaykhosro Pournazeri in a Sufi music ensemble called the Shams Ensemble[9] and had performed and sang in numerous music festivals including Barana Music Festival (2016, Kermanshah, Iran) and Konya Sufi Music Festival[10] (2018, Konya, Istanbul).

  • Saint-Malo Festival 2016
  • Festival au Fil des Voix 2017[11][12]
  • Forde Festival 2016[13][14]
  • Rudolstudt Festival 2017
  • Pau Festival 2016
  • Rosie 2016
  • Female Voices From Iran 2017
  • Festival des 5 Continents 2017
  • Female Festival Mpscow 2017
  • Calvi Corsica Concert 2017
  • Trondheim Concert 2017
  • Par Gums Musigues 2018
  • Konya Sufi Music Festival 2018

References

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  1. ^ "Donya Kamali". Barana Art. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  2. ^ "Kermanshah", Wikipedia, 2023-07-14, retrieved 2023-07-25
  3. ^ "Kurds", Wikipedia, 2023-07-25, retrieved 2023-07-25
  4. ^ "Sohrab Pournazeri | Composer, Music Department". IMDb. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  5. ^ "KOBANE". Accords Croisés. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  6. ^ "Musiques : l'actu, les critiques et nos sélections d'albums, ainsi que des concerts vidéo - page 1". www.telerama.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  7. ^ "La soirée". Institutkurde.org (in French). Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  8. ^ "Tahmoures Pournazeri". Tahmoures Pournazeri. 2021-02-28. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  9. ^ "Tahmoures Pournazeri". Shamss Ensemble. 2021-02-28. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  10. ^ "12th Konya International Mystic Music Festival – Mystic Music". mistikmuzik.org. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  11. ^ "Festival Au Fil des Voix 2017". ACCENT PRESSE (in French). Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  12. ^ Festival Au Fil des Voix - Paris 2017 - 10ème édition | Teaser, retrieved 2023-07-25
  13. ^ Rao, Madanmohan (2016-07-26). "Forde Festival 2016: World music, human rights and cultural preservation | World Music Central". Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  14. ^ "Ford Festival", Wikipedia, 2023-03-27, retrieved 2023-07-25