ROMAbaron - NO G**** BARON
Music Theatre
11. Apr - 13. Apr 2025
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Golnar Shahyar, an Iranian-Canadian singer, poet, composer and multi-instrumentalist, came to Vienna in 2008 to study voice and guitar at the University of Music. At a time when boundaries between ‘serious’ and ‘popular’ music and Eurocentrism were being overcome, Golnar's musical endeavours fell on fertile ground. Today she is widely known as one of the most accomplished vocal artists in European contemporary and improvised music, as a composer and producer of her own music and as a performer in dance, theatre and opera productions. Her work, with groups such as Choub, Gabbeh and the Golnar & Mahan Trio and as a solo artist under the name GolNar, is an extraordinary prism of languages and styles that draws equally from the traditions of West Asia and North Africa and from contemporary European and American music. Her debut album Tear Drop was nominated for the German Jazz Award as the best debut album of 2022. There is no meaningful separation between her music and the social issues she addresses; she grew up in a culture where women have struggled for decades to have a public voice. Many of her songs carry the weight of tragedy: of war, oppression, the personal struggles we all share... yet despite all this, there is nothing negative in her music.
Golnar Shahyar, an Iranian-Canadian singer, poet, composer and multi-instrumentalist, came to Vienna in 2008 to study voice and guitar at the University of Music. At a time when boundaries between ‘serious’ and ‘popular’ music and Eurocentrism were being overcome, Golnar's musical endeavours fell on fertile ground. Today she is widely known as one of the most accomplished vocal artists in European contemporary and improvised music, as a composer and producer of her own music and as a performer in dance, theatre and opera productions. Her work, with groups such as Choub, Gabbeh and the Golnar & Mahan Trio and as a solo artist under the name GolNar, is an extraordinary prism of languages and styles that draws equally from the traditions of West Asia and North Africa and from contemporary European and American music. Her debut album Tear Drop was nominated for the German Jazz Award as the best debut album of 2022. There is no meaningful separation between her music and the social issues she addresses; she grew up in a culture where women have struggled for decades to have a public voice. Many of her songs carry the weight of tragedy: of war, oppression, the personal struggles we all share... yet despite all this, there is nothing negative in her music.
