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Featured Presenters are:
Dr. Kambeze Etemad
Kambeze B. Etemad, M.D. was born and raised in Philadelphia by immigrant Iranian parents and is a 5th-generation Bahá’í. His involvement with the Bahá’í Faith community has at times included personal and family participation and service, administrative service, public education and representation, teaching and delegational capacities, internal advisory and educational services, curriculum and systems development and interfaith initiatives – on the local, regional, national and international levels. Kambeze attended Brown University, both as an undergraduate and as a medical student and completed his Residency in Psychiatry at Temple University Hospital. He was Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Attending Psychiatrist in its Outpatient Clinic. Earlier in his career his avid calling in education led him to Switzerland where he spent three years helping to develop a newly-formed international college. More recently Dr. Etemad participated in the Children and War Project at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Currently he works as an addiction psychiatrist at Eagleville Hospital in Eagleville, PA. He loves to write and is an amateur folk pianist and vocalist.
Tom Price
Tom Price, a professional composer, conductor and arranger, is best known for his work in choral and orchestral music. As director of the international choir, The Voices of Bahá, he has directed public concerts in more than forty countries over the past fifteen years, including performances in Carnegie Hall in New York, the Mozart Concert House in Vienna, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow and dozens of fine auditoriums throughout the world. Price has conducted such orchestras as The Warsaw Philharmonic, The Czech National Symphony, The Budapest Symphony, The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, The Maly Moscow Symphony, and others.
For fourteen years, he was musical director of the Sydney Bahá’í Temple Choir in Australia, and from 1989 to 1996 was musical director at the Bahá’í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois.
In 1986 he collaborated with renowned Indian Composer Ravi Shankar in combining Indian and western musical elements for the opening and dedication of the Bahá’í House of Worship in New Delhi. He was the director of the 420-voice choir and 90-piece symphony orchestra for the second Bahá’í World Congress in New York in 1992.
Price studied music composition at the University of Sydney in Australia, where he lived for 18 years, working as a composer, arranger and conductor of music for film, television and commercial recordings. He was responsible for several hit recordings in the pop and jazz fields in Australia, including producing and co-writing the number one double-platinum recording Bad Habits by artist Billy Field which was the largest selling album in Australia in 1981. In 1983 he won the Gold Prize in songwriting at the 12th Tokyo Music Festival.
Since moving to the U.S. in 1988, he has produced several fine choral recordings, including Songs of the Ancient Beauty, Songs of the Ancient Beauty Volume II, We Have Come to Sing Praises, The Voices of Baha in Concert, and several others.
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