{"id":51232,"date":"2022-07-22T11:01:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T06:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=51232"},"modified":"2022-07-22T11:01:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T06:31:13","slug":"iranian-musicians-honored-at-global-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/51232\/iranian-musicians-honored-at-global-music-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian musicians honored at Global Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Puya Sarai won a silver medal in the well-known American international music competition which celebrates independent musicians, the organizers announced Saturday.<\/p>\n

Sarai received the medal for his composition \u201cBoghz\u201d, a single that features Salar Aqili on vocals.<\/p>\n

Four Iranian musicians also won bronze medals.<\/p>\n

The Saeidi Bothers, the traditional Iranian song duo of Ali and Mohammad Saeidi, were given a medal for their single \u201cYouth\u201d composed by Hamid Lali. Santur player Amir-Hossein Moallem also contributed to the piece.<\/p>\n

Composer Arman Mansha\u2019i was honored for his new-age piece \u201cDreams\u201d.<\/p>\n

A bronze medal was awarded to Hesam Sadafinejad for \u201cPlasco\u201d, a piece he released in January in memory of 16 firefighters and a number of citizens who were killed in the collapse of Tehran\u2019s 17-storey mega mall Plasco on January 19, 2017.<\/p>\n

Iranian musicians failed to receive a gold medal in any category of this edition of the Global Music Awards.<\/p>\n

In the previous edition held in January, Iranian composer Farhad Harati won a gold medal for his cinematic choral music, \u201cThe Sacred Earth\u201d.<\/p>\n

The album featuring eleven tracks has been recorded at Zang Records with Naamira, a choral ensemble of young musicians.<\/p>\n

In 2021, the Iranian crossover classical new age band Lyra Duet won a gold medal for their debut album \u201cTehran-Mars\u201d, which was released in 2016, and went on to win the Iranian Music House Award for the classical\/new age album of the year.<\/p>\n

Among the latest edition\u2019s gold medal winners is American musician Heidi Breyer who received the prize for her classical piece \u201cAmor Aeternus: A Requiem for the Common Man\u201d.<\/p>\n

Italian jazz instrumentalist Jacopo Ferrazza was honored for his contribution to \u201cFantasia\u201d, and the gold medal for female vocalist went to American jazz singer Lyn Stanley for her \u201cNovel Noel\u201d.<\/p>\n

Venezuelan singer Eleazar Mora won the gold medal for female vocalist for his \u201cJavier Solis una Orquestra y una Voz, Vol. 2\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Ensemble for These Times from America won a gold medal for \u201cThe Guernica Project\u201d, while Skyline Jazz Band from Taiwan was honored for their \u201cCity Silhouette\u201d.<\/p>\n

Elisabet Franch from Spain for \u201cFranch Plays Franck\u201d, Larry Mitchell from America for \u201cThe Light Within\u201d and Jessica McMann from Canada for \u201cIncandescent Tales\u201d also won gold medals.<\/p>\n

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Puya Sarai won a silver medal in the well-known American international music competition which celebrates independent musicians, the organizers announced Saturday. Sarai received the medal for his composition \u201cBoghz\u201d, a single that features Salar Aqili on vocals. Four Iranian musicians also won bronze medals. The Saeidi Bothers, the traditional Iranian song duo of Ali and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7131,1],"tags":[9992,10009],"class_list":["post-51232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-en","category-others","tag-iranian-music","tag-iranian-music-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}