Nejad World Music Center
The Nejad World Music Center, established in 1997, teaches youth and adults in the community and brings world-renowned artists to the United States for collaborations and performances. During the past year Nejad World Music Center Youth Orchestra, the largest traditional youth orchestra outside of Iran, presented traditional music as featured performers at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Cowell Theater, and the San Francisco World Music Festival.
Mr. Nejad is a Persian-born master multi-instrumentalist with an international reputation as a composer, performer and recording artist. Ostad Nejad holds a degree in Fine Arts for Musicianship and Performance from Tehran University and is proficient in both the Western and Persian musical styles. Ostad Nejad plays 26 different types of traditional and western musical instruments.