Jazmourian Ensemble

Jazmourian Ensemble was formed in 2019 by two musicians from Iran and Australia, who were inspired by the question, “What do the music of the east and west have in common?” Malek Mohammadi Nejad, a setar master native to Iran, together with Anna McDonald, an internationally renowned baroque violinist who now plays the kamancheh, created their new idea of an ensemble while travelling together in Iran and Armenia for three years. 

In 2021 they recorded their first music CD, “Karavankosh”: four original compositions written for the unusual but beautiful combination of Iranian setar and kamancheh. This is their first performance in Braidwood and we look forward to welcoming them and you, our audience, to what promises to be an enigmatic and entrancing performance.

“This is a new creative space from an encounter between two musicians from east and west.  We believe that our worlds are reflected in each other, and that by bridging the past and the future we create an enchanted world in the present.” Jazmourian Ensemble