TEHRAN, Feb. 08 (MNA) � An Iranian soloist will be in a tour of US states for performing his potpourri of Iranian classical music and Spanish flamenco.


Mohammad Motamedi will give concerts in some US metropolitan cities his �Ode� (�qasideh� in Persian). The mixture of Iranian music and Spanish flamenco makes the best use of both musical forms and their capabilities. Along with Motamedi, who is composer of Iranian part of the �Ode,� Sina Jahanabadi and Habib Meftah also will participate as Iranian instrument players.

The concerts will be reportedly hosted by New York�s Carnegie Hall, Cleveland�s Museum of Art in Ohio, Lisner Auditorium in in Washington DC, and Berkley�s Art House Gallery and Cultural Center.

The �Ode� has been performed in Jeres Flamenco Festival (southern Spain), Seville Flamenco Festival, Morgenland Festival (Osnabr�ck, Germany), Amsterdam Flamenco Festival in Raza Theatre (Utrecht, the Netherlands), Madrid Flamenco Festival, Rome Flamenco Festival, Amsterdam�s Great Music Hall and Austrian Krems Festival.

By Mehr News Agency