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Once the Dean of Fine Arts at Tehran University, Mohammed Reza Lotfi was forced to leave that position by the post-shah government and banned from performing or publishing in newspapers or on Iranian television and radio. He made private appearances at cultural organizations until this, too, was prohibited.
Since then, this tremendously accomplished musician has toured Europe and the United States, teaching seminars in Rome, Bologna, Florence, Hamburg, Cologne and Paris. He’s been based in Washington, D.C., since 1987, and has performed and taught by invitatipn in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, New York, Atlanta, San Francisco and Dallas.
Now to his list of world cultural centers, Lotfi can add the Gay Street Theater. By a special arrangement made with the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community after visiting the county, the international recording artist will present a concert in Washington, Va., on Friday, March 10 at 8 p.m.
The veteran musician’s concert will reflect his life’s work: the establishment of the Farabi Cultural Institute to revive and re-invigorate traditional Iranian music.
The artist plays all the traditional Persian instruments and his
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