Zoroastrian News – اخبار زرتشتیان

... In fact, however, Nasseri is still emerging, rather than emerged. He has yet to come under the wing of a major concert agent or presenter and thus has become adept at finding his own ways to get onstage, through sponsors or an organization like the one that presented him on Saturday, the Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Washington. ...

In a classical career, the line between “making it” and “struggling” can be virtually invisible to an outside observer. Soheil Nasseri, 29, is a classical pianist who has given a number of ambitious solo recitals in New York, to sometimes favorable reviews, and he played at the Kennedy Center on Saturday night with a program he will be taking on the road to Berlin and his London debut. Nasseri attended Richard Montgomery High School until he dropped out at 16 to pursue his piano studies, and the story line he would have liked to promote about the weekend’s concert is “Local Boy Makes Good.” Read More »