The
“Golestan Ensemble” was founded in 2006 by Zohreh Jooya, and the Persian composer and musician Athar
Torabi. The name “Golestan” literally translates flower
garden, but the mystical meaning is paradise. The aim of this group
is to interpret ancient mystical Persian poetry of Molana Rumi, Hafez
and Za’adi in classical music. A big but not the only part of
the repertoire is the compositions which the composer and virtuoso on
the Persian tar Master Majid Derakhshani recorded with Zohreh Jooya
in 2004 titled “Music of the Persian Mystics”. This group
pursues Zohreh Jooya’s idea to join artists and instruments of
different cultures into a homogenous entity -in a mystical sense “Where
ever we come from we are all part of one entity“.
Under the artistic guidance of Athar Thorabi