Shadi Vahidi
Shadi Vahidi () is an Iranian musician and composer.

Early life and education
Vahidi commenced to learn playing the ‬‬Piano under her father's supervision since childhood. In her teens she chose the Setar and tar as her professional Iranian musical instruments, so she studied Radif Mirza Abdolah(; under supervision of Azar Zargarian at the University of Arts, simultaneously studied solfeggio and gained knowledge of Avaz techniques and voice-producing and also she learned Persian traditional vocal Avaz and Radif. Then she was tutored by Dariush Pirniakan to learn Radif of Mirza Hossein-Qoli and Ali-Akbar Shahnazi and composition of Iranian forms for ten years. After that she attended the Master classes of maestro Mohammad-Reza Lotfi ,at the same time accompanied Shayda Ensemble under supervision of maestro Lotfi.

Career 
Shadi has been collaborating with many musicians and ensembles during her working years.
The most important work of Shadi is " Instant of love " (2009) studio album. In this album, which is based on the lyrics of Saadi Shirazi, she has performed as a singer ,composer,Tar and Setar instrumentalist. 
Shadi has emigrated to Armenia in 2015 and has many collaborations and accompanying with Honored Artist of Armenia such as Levon Tevanyan, Vardan Baghdasaryan, Karen Avagyan,
late Georgi Minasov and created a lot of combinatoric songs of Armenian and Iranian music.
Shadi is also an Orff Schulwerk teacher and she has published a book for children (The songs of animals) which is involves nursery rhyme with sheet music.

Discography

Studio albums

 Instant of love (2012)

Collaborative albums
 Honare-game-zaman  (2010) (with Mohammad-Reza Lotfi)
 Zakhme-saz  (2014) (with Mohammad-Reza Lotfi)
 The-magic-of-silence (2011) (with Hamidreza Mortazavi) 
 Arash-Kamangir  (2020) (with  Hamid Soltanie )
 Del-e-puladam  (2022) (with Hamid Soltanie)

Singles

 Journey (2016)
 sorrow of love (2017)
 Melody of spring (2018)
 Delight of trance (2018)
 Fale Hafez (2018)
 Spring’s-odor (2019)
 Nava waltz (2020)
 The secret of autumn (2021)
 Somnolent (2022)
  Hope (2023)

 Cover of Hov arek          Komitas (2016) 
 Cover of Goftam ghame to daram song  Mohammad-Reza Lotfi (2017)
 Cover of Marmare-roya      Marzieh (singer)   (2015)

References

External links
https://shadivahidi.com
https://www.youtube.com/@SHADIVAHIDI
https://ir.voanews.com/a/shadi-vahidi/3987686.html
https://ir.voanews.com/a/4564012.html
https://ir.voanews.com/a/music/4953176.html

Living people
Persian classical musicians
People from Tehran
Musicians from Tehran
Iranian singers
Iranian setar players
Iranian tar players
Iranian composers