Press:
Süddeutsche Zeitung :
...the intimate, Kurdish-Armenian music duo of percussionist Hadi Alizadeh and singer Gayané Sureni are the winners of the Bavarian Creole World Music Competition. They came out on top against four other competitors at the Künstlerhaus in Nuremberg and can now perform at the Bardentreffen in July and represent Bavaria at the Creole Festival in Hanover in November.
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Especially when you pay so much attention to quality. In the round tent at the market, Iranian Hadi Alizadeh, who lives in Nuremberg, almost brought his Kurdish frame drum Daf and the Persian Tonbak to life with his virtuoso finger playing, resulting in storms of enthusiasm from the audience.
Music and stage
Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 162, Monday July 16, 2012 "Passion theater":
...What Hadi Alizadeh does. He drums on stage, rhythms the scenes, the language, very finely, very discreetly...

• Augsburger Allgemeine:

The musical interplay is not only fascinating, but sometimes it takes the cruelty out of the story.
other times the Persian musician literally drums the tension out of the audience. Nobody is afraid here, but the audience sits spellbound
the audience sits and listens to the story of Krabat.
B5 News:
while Iranian percussionist Hadi Alizadeh tenderly worked the Daf flat drum. Some members of the audience were amazed at the sounds he was able to elicit from the inconspicuous "wooden lid" - and were increasingly driven to ecstasy.....
Hadi Alizadeh, who plays the Persian tonbak drum and the frame drum daf with incredible virtuosity and shows how meditative and yet rhythmically stimulating the music of the Orient can be.
It is the music that reflects people's feelings and Hadi Alizadeh's fingers made them audible. His virtuoso playing on the Persian drum Tonbak and the frame drum Daf filled the Dark Box...
the drum creates an eerie atmosphere" .....
If you can play like this, you don't need a stylish stage, an elaborate light show or big words....

"A driving groove, sophisticated melodic accompaniment and free improvisation preserve the tried and tested while elevating it to a new artistic level. The evening is captivating to the very last note and the audience experiences how unifying seemingly inaccessible music can be."
Münchner Merkur on 07.02.2012
"...The tenderness that drummer Hadi Alizadeh achieves with his playing is unbelievable." "...and so the eyes of the audience are always glued to this exotic instrumentalist, who gives them such fascinating views of musical landscapes and threatens to notize them."
Allgäuer Anzeigenblatt- Allgäuer Zeitung: No. 23 Saturday January 29, 2011
"Hadi Alizadeh's virtuosity on the classical Persian "Tonbak" and the Kurdish ("Daf") frame drums truly amazed the numerous visitors to the Kulturwerkstatt.