DeutschElham Hamedi
kamancheh
Elham Hamedi (b. 1987, Mahabad) is a Kurdish musician, singer, and composer specializing in the Persian kamancheh. She studied classical Persian music at the University of Art in Tehran and later taught at the Diyarbakir Academy of Music. Since 2020 she has been studying composition at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin under Stefan Winkler and Arnulf Herrmann. Her performances as both an instrumentalist and singer have taken her to Malaysia, the Middle East, Russia, and Europe, including a recent appearance in Oslo and a live RBB broadcast from Berlin's Luisenkirche. In 2019 she received second prize in the ISAM Composition Competition, and in 2024 she presented a widely acclaimed solo recital at the Ostheimer Organ Festival.
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