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Mahan Esfahani

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Mahan Esfahani at His Best!A Collection of Contemporary Works for Harpsichord!Mahan Esfahani is an Iranian-American harpsichordist born in Tehran in 1984. He was the first harpsichordist to be named a New Generation Artist by BBC Radio 3, and he is also the recipient of the Borletti-Buitoni Foundation Award and and was the first harpsichordist to be nominated for both the Royal Philharmonic Societys Instrumentalist of the Year award in 2014 and the Gramophone Awards Artist of the Year in 2014. In 2015, she was named Newcomer of the Year by BBC Music Magazine, and was nominated for Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Awards in both 2015 and 2017.This program showcases Esfahanis true worthhe has taken the world by storm with a repertoire spanning an astonishingly wide range, from the highly demanding music of 16th- and 17th-century English virginalists to the classic works of J.S. Bach and eve