Duo Hamdelaneh with Alireza Mortazavi at Tolmezzo, Museo Prato D’Arte Marzona

Markus Stockhausen I Trumpet and Flugelhorn
Alireza Mortazavi I Santur

Since 2015 Alireza Mortazavi and Markus Stockhausen have been performing together. East and West meet in an intimate musical dialogue. The music of Alireza and Markus invites the listener to explore expansive sound terrain, is very sensitive but also includes outbursts of intense expression. Alireza, born in Iran, lives now in Italy and has quickly established an international career.

The two outstanding improvisers met at a concert for the Iranian Nouruz Spring Fest in Erftstadt, Germany. Soon an invitation followed to the Mittelfest in Cividale del Friuli, Italy, where also the first CD recording HAMDELANEH was recorded live. This music has been published by Dark Companion Records in Italy in March 2019. The title of this publication also became the motto for their duo performances: HAMDELANEH – „With the same heart“.

In 2022 the CD „Free Spirits“ was released also by Dark Companion Records, mainly a duo production of markus Stockhausen together with the percussionist Lino Capra Vacchina, but here also Alireza contributes his colourful playing on some tracks.-

Occidente e Oriente si incontrano in Hamdelaneh (in persiano “con lo stesso cuore”) per un dialogo musicale intimo e ispirato tra Markus Stockhausen e Alireza Mortazavi.
Lo fanno in un luogo, il Prato d’Arte di Egidio Marzona, aperto sul Mondo tra opere d’arte e legami che uniscono Verzegnis, Berlino e Dresda.
Ad anticipare il concerto ci sarà lo stesso Marzona, collezionista tedesco di origine carnica, a raccontare la sua esperienza tra avanguardie artistiche e incontri con grandi personalità internazionali, tra le quali, non a caso, Karlheinz Stockhausen, celebre compositore e padre di Markus.
Un viaggio attraverso paesaggi sonori vasti e cangianti, dove la delicatezza si alterna a momenti di intensa e vibrante espressività, incontrando, in un pomeriggio d’estate, un luogo dedicato all’universalità dell’Arte.

Video Markus Stockhausen & Alireza Mortazavi – Hamdelaneh: Love without Boundaries

Link to the project Hamdelaneh