More than 3 months before the grand tour of Alireza Ghorbani in Australia, a collaboration formed in early November between N I M A and maestro Alireza Ghorbani's artistic director; Mr. Hesam Naseri. Due to the previous establishment of N I M A within the Persian community as a rising artist and his known links to the classical music industry of the western world in Australia, he was chosen as a key member in sourcing and forming a professionally tailored music ensemble consisting of strings, woodwind & brass instruments. Of course maestro Alireza Ghorbani being one of the greatest Persian artists of all time meant N I M A's team was tasked with sourcing world class level musicians; some of the country's best! These musicians would then go on to tour in January.

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 Seeing just how challenging this would be, N I M A sourced help from no one better suited to the position; maestro Brett Kelly - whom he had known from years of being co-principle of Melbourne Youth Orchestra (MYO) which was being led by Mr. Kelly as artistic director & chief conductor at the time. Together with the help of each other; Maestro Brett Kelly sourcing the right musicians & N I M A ensuring fast & effective communications of procedures/requirements from Hesam Naseri & back, this project was completed successfully.

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   12 musicians of world-class standard were chosen including N I M A to accompany Mr. Ghorbani on the stages of Australia's most prestigious concert halls including Sydney Opera House & Palais Theatre in Melbourne. This was the line up:

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1st Violins     Erica Kennedy (Orchestra Victoria, MSO, Flinders Quartet)

                        Kathryn Taylor (Acting Principal Violin - MSO)

                        Nima Alizadeh (independant artist)

2nd Violins     Sophia Kirsonova ( Soloist, Leader - Melbourne Strings)

                                             Jos Jonker (Orchestra Victoria, Berlin Symphony Orchestra & Melbourne Chamber Orchestra)

                        Meg Cohen (ANAM, OV, MSO & ARCO)

Violas          Matthew Liang (ANAM, MSO, OV, ASO)

                        Molly Collier-O’Boyle (MSO, OV, ANAM & QSO)

Cellos          Zoe Knighton    ( Flinders Quartet, OV, MSO, TSO)

                        Joseph Kelly     (MSO, ANAM & 2024 SSO Fellow)

Flute           Eliza Shepherd (Soloist - ABC Young Performer of the Year 2022)

 

Horn            Josiah Kop (MSO, SSO, ANAM)

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"It's true, there were many trials and tribulations throughout these three months, periods of dangerous uncertainty, periods of draining urgency & multiple unexpected 11 pm calls but I would not trade the experience with anything else" are N I M A's words regarding working on this project. The collaboration had it all and it finally ended with a grand 'bang' with the success of the last concert in Perth!