Bahar Movahed Bashiri: Difference between revisions

Bahar was born in Terhan/Tehran, (Iran) on March 27th27, 1979. She was raised in an environment which harmonized art and science; Herher father is a nationally recognized surgeon and [http://www.minamokhtarzadeh.art/ her mother] is a well-known artist in Iran.<ref>[http://www.minamokhtarzadeh.art/ Baharwww.minamokhtarzadeh.art]</ref> was born in Tehran, Iran andBahar started learning music as a young child first on the piano. Later on, she learned how to play the Tanbour[[tanbour]] through lessons with Maestro Seyed Amrollah Shah Ebrahimi. She quickly developed an interest for Kurdish lyrics and classical Persian vocal radifs. Simultaneously she learned to play Tar with Keyvan Saket and Mohamad Reza Ebrahimi and began intense vocal training in 1998 with the acclaimed classical Iranian singer Mrs. Parissa. During this period, Bahar was a dedicated dental student and went on to earn her DDS degree in Iran in 2003 from Tehran Azad School of Dentistry. While practicing as a dentist, she continued studying vocals with renowned Iranian vocalists Shahram Nazeri and Hamid Reza Noorbakhsh, and eventually the legendary Mohammad -Reza Shajarian. In her free time, she taught at a number of music institutes and recorded her own music before she left Iran.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baharmovahed.com/ |title=Home |website=baharmovahed.com}}</ref>

In 2010, Bahar immigrated to the United States to further her education and pursue professional opportunities. Since women in Iran are only allowed to perform and produce music as “co"co-singing”singing" vocalists to mask their own voice, Bahar was eager to present her art in the USU.S. as a solo vocalist. In 2012, she released her debut album in collaboration with Maestro Ali Akbar Moradi, a well-known Iranian-Kurdish tanbour virtuoso. ThisThe album “Goblet''Goblet of Eternal Light”Light'' was published by Traditional Crossroads and USU.S. media deemed it “one"one of the most hauntingly beautiful albums of the year in any style of music”music". To date, Bahar has held multiple sold-out concerts across the US.<ref>{{cite web |title=New York Music Daily |date=3 July 2012|url=https://newyorkmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/bahar/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Wordpress |date=18 April 2013|url=https://newyorkmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/baharmovahed/}}</ref><ref name="lucidculture-2013-04-05">{{cite web |title=Lucid Culture |date=5 April 2013|url=https://lucidculture.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/bahar/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Traditional Crossroads |url=https://www.mcssl.com/store/traditionalcrossroads/georgia/digital-audiophile-series/4345-bahar-movahed-and-ali-akbar-moradi---goblet-of-eternal-light}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=New York Music Daily |date=18 April 2013|url=https://newyorkmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/baharmovahed/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Events |url=https://events.kodoom.com/en/berkeley-ca/bahar-movahed-ali-samadpour-a-restoration-of-the-persian-traditional-music/65677/e/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Town Hall Seattle |url=https://townhallseattle.org/event/moonrise-ensemble/}}</ref><ref name="bahar_concerts">{{cite web |title=baharmovahed.com |url=http://www.baharmovahed.com/concerts-en.html |access-date=2018-12-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504203512/http://www.baharmovahed.com/concerts-en.html |archive-date=2019-05-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Bahar continued her dentaldentistry education in the USU.S. and earned her second DDS degree from the University of California, San Francisco. Soon after, she gained a specialty in Orthodontics and a MS in Kinesiology at the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}} Bahar is currently practicing orthodontics in Southern California.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}} While her career as an orthodontist brings her joy, her endless passion for Persian classical singing cannotcan not be quenched. Her well-rounded background has given her media recognition as a “[https://"Renaissance Woman".<ref name="lucidculture.wordpress.com/-2013/-04/-05" /bahar/ Renaissance Woman].”>

* First Prize and Gold medal, 5th International FCW Cartoon Festival, China, 2005

* Special Prize, 1st International IACC Animation & Cartoon Festival, China, 2004

=== Translated tointo [[Persian language|Persian]] ===

* “Medical''Medical Emergencies in the Dental office”office'', 6th Edition, (Stanley F. Malamed), Shayan Nemoodar Publishing House, 2009.

* “Medical''Medical Emergencies in the Dental office”office'', 5th Edition, (Stanley F. Malamed), Shayan Nemoodar Publishing House, 2006.

* “Essential''Essential Handbook of Local Anesthesia”Anesthesia'', A translation and summary of “Handbook''Handbook of Local Anesthesia”Anesthesia'', 5th Edition, (Stanley F. Malamed), Shayan Nemoodar Publishing House, 2004.

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