The Gāthās for Piano by Saman Samadi

This exposition represents a series of piano compositions of which the rhythmic structure is derived and developed from the language of Zarathustra's homonymous book of poems (The Gāthās), Gāthic or Old Avestan which belongs to the ancient Iranian language group that is a sub-group of Eastern families of the Indo-European languages. These pieces were formed by applying the poem's meter which is historically related to the Vedic tristubh-jagati family of meters. This project, in content, was inspired by the poems expounding on the divine essences of truth (Asha), the good-mind (Vohu Manah), and the spirit of righteousness.

"Ahunavaiti Gāthā no.1, stanza III” was dedicated to Jonathan Powell, in honor of his 50th birthday, by whom it was premiered at NeoArte Festival, Gdansk, Poland, on Saturday, October 26, 2019. This is the recording of the Czech premiere of the piece, by the pianist, at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague's Music Faculty (HAMU) on Friday, November 15, 2019. He will be performing this composition in Setkávání Nové Hudby Plus (Meetings of New Music), at Janáček Academy (JAMU) of Brno, in an online (live-streamed) concert, on December 8, 2020.

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