16th place in national university entrance exam (concours) from 35,000 applicants.ġ994 School of Drama, Art University of Tehran, Iran.ġ995 Department of Fine Arts, Tehran University, Iran.Ģ008 Prayner Conservatory, Vienna, Austria.Ģ009 Artist in residency, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, California, USA.Ģ010-2011 Fellow, Department of Music, Stanford University, California, USA. Educationġ993 Diploma in Mathematics, Jabbarian High School, Mashhad, Iran. His latest album, Motantan (Grandiloquent) is released on March 4 2020. Mohsen Namjoo has released 13 albums and over 20 singles. He is one of the few middle eastern artists who has following all across the world from Tehran to New York to Melbourne to Istanbul to Berlin and many more cities.
in 2009, Namjoo has been touring the world to sold out concerts at prestigious halls including Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco Conservatorio Sala Verdi, Milan, Italy Disney Hall and Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Barbican Hall, London, Symphony Space NYC, Volkswagen Arena Istanbul and many more. His unique style of singing and effortless mixture of music from east and west has made him an iconic persona in contemporary world music. Seamlessly blending the Classical Persian music and scales with electric guitar,Rock and Blues vocal techniques with Persian Avaz (singing).
Featured on many world renowned press such as NY Times, The Guardian, BBC, LA times and many more Namjoo is considered a visionary artist who speaks for the youth in Iran.
Born in 1976 in Khorasan province, one of epicenters of poetry and music north east of Iran, Mohsen Namjoo is a Singer Songwriter, Music scholar and Setar (traditional Persian lute) player currently based in New York City.
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