Darya Dadvar''Daryā'' (دريا) ( Old Persian: ''Drayah'',

Middle Persian Middle Persian or Pahlavi, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg () in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire. For some time after the Sasanian collapse, Middle ...

: ''Drayā'',

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: ''Jrayaḥ'') is the Persian word for ''Sea'', or ''Ocean'' (similar to ''the'' sea), and ''Dādvar'' (دادور), a combination of ''Dād'' (داد), Justice, and ''var'' (ور), a suffix indicative of one's profession or vocation, for ''Jurist'' or ''Chief Justice'' (in general, someone whose main business is judicial administration of law and equity). For comparison, ''Dāneshvar'', a combination of ''Dānesh'', Knowledge, Science, and ''var'', is the Persian word for ''Scientist''. The word ''Dādvar'' is archaic, if not obsolete, and it is conceivable that the contemporary word ''Dāvar'' (داور), Arbiter, Arbitrator, Judge, or sports referee may be ''Dādvar'' itself, abbreviated through its frequent use over perhaps millennia, or is a direct descendant of it. The "''v''" in ''Dādvar'' should be pronounced as "''w''" and the "''a''" as "''aa''".
Roland G. Kent, ''Old Persian Studies'', Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 266-277 (1942). ( fa, دريا دادور , born in Mashhad,

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) is an

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soprano soloist and composer living in

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Education

Darya was born in Mashhad in 1971, but she grew up in

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in a Gilak family. In 1991, at the age of twenty, she left Iran for France where she studied music. She is a graduate of The National Conservatory in

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, France. She earned her ''Diplôme d'Etudes Musicales'' in voice in June 1999, and, subsequently, completed a four-year professional course in the Baroque style at the Conservatory of Toulouse in 2000. Darya also holds a postgraduate

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degree from School of Fine Arts of Toulouse (''Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse'').

Career

Darya has given concert performances in

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, France,

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, Sweden, the

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and

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. In 2002, Darya was a guest performer in Tehran with the

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n Symphony Orchestra in the role of Tahmineh, in a work composed and directed by

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based on the tragedy of

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, one of the most fascinating tales of Ferdowsi's ''

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'' (The Book of Kings). Apart from singing in

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, French,

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and

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, Darya performs in various native languages of Iran, such as

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, Gilaki,

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and Mazandarani.

Notes

External links

Darya Dadvar's official website
* *
Darya Dadvar
on

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* Interviews with Darya Dadvar: Friday 4 March 2005
BBC Persian
and Saturday 19 May 2007
BBC Persian
. * ''Rostam and Sohrab'', by Hakim Abol-Qasem Ferdowsi Tousi, translated into English by Helen Zimmern
Iran Chamber Society
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