وب سایت صنم پاشا آموزش موسیقی فستیوال موسیقی جز گروه ارته «فرزین طهرانیان»، «عرفان خطایی»، «مهراد نجفیان» و «صنم پاشا» تشکیل می‌دهند؛ این گروه که موسیقی تلفیقی ارائه می‌دهند در آثار خود از اشعار مولانا، حافظ، سعدی، سایه و ملک الشعرا بهار استفاده کرده‌اند.
شایان ذکر است فرزین طهرانیان سرپرست این گروه، نوازنده گیتار کلاسیک و استاد دانشکده هنر و معماری تهران است.
فستیوال موسیقی جز قفقاز هرسال در ماه ژوئن در کشور گرجستان برگزار می گردد
TBILISI, GEORGIA – Late on the second night of this year’s Kavkaz Jazz Festival
a fixture on Tbilisi’s summer arts calendar – Maria Shirshova. One of the festival’s organizers. She whispered in my ear that something special was about to happen
Plenty of special things had already happened. The festival opened the night before in the packed Grand Hall. A venue that graduated and presented generations of musical luminaries during the 20th century.
Saxophonist Michael Tracy – guitarist Craig Wagner, both University of Louisville faculty members–
played finely honed duos on opening night. Exploratory set with a Tbilisi group headed up by Reso Kiknadze, whose varied career includes success as a composer of contemporary music . And a busy schedule as a jazz saxophonist who performs regularly in Tbilisi’s clubs and cafes.
Nearby Iran has only just begun to re-engage with the West after decades of economic isolation. And in early April, a long-standing border dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia flared up in a burst of violence, now dubbed the Four Day War. According to the U.S. State Department led to some 350 military and civilian casualties.
But on stage, two keyboard players,from Armenia and Azerbaijan were standing side-by-side sharing two stacked keyboards. It was an indelible and moving image of friendship that riveted and delighted the audience.
That collaboration through music is exactly what inspired Mechitova, Shirshova, and Nino Tsitlanadze, to create an international pan-Caucasus jazz festival that this year featured ensembles from all the nations in this complex region.
Throughout the festival, electric keyboards and amplified guitars matched up with traditional string instruments like the Persian tar and the Georgian fanduri. Drum kits with the Iranian hand drum called a tombak, and saxes with reeds and flutes like the duduk, pku, zurna and shvi.