Salar Nader News

Starting with tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, A 75th Birthday Celebration of Rhythm, Genius, and Joy will take place at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, presented by World Music Institute.

World Music Institute will continue celebrating 40 years of presenting the finest global music and dance in New York City with a brand-new Spring-Summer season full of new discoveries, old favorites, and special events.

The GRAMMY Award-winning Chicago-based percussion quartet Third Coast Percussion (TCP) has announced its Chicago and touring schedules for the 2025-2026 season. As the first percussion ensemble ever to win a GRAMMY in the classical genre,

Celebrated kathak artist Rukhmani Mehta, Founding Artist and Co-Artistic Director of Leela Dance Collective, will perform Sandhi on Thursday, November 13 at 7:30 p.m. at The Wende Museum in Culver City.

The SFJAZZ Gala 2025 raised $1.5 million to support the organization’s artistic and education programs with the goal of advancing jazz in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Learn more!

GRAMMY Award-winning Third Coast Percussion will release its 20th anniversary full-length album, Standard Stoppages. Learn more about the album and see when and where to purchase.

The 2025–2026 concert season at Emory University's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts is a celebration of timeless excellence with the legendary violin mastery of  Itzhak Perlman, the Sphinx Virtuosi with cellist Sterling Elliott, the groundbreaking originality of organist Cameron Carpenter, and the classic virtuosity of pianist Víkingur  Ólafsson. 

While continuing to mourn the passing of tabla master Zakir Hussain, Third Coast Percussion revealed that the collaborative tour and recording projects they had planned together will go forward as tributes to Hussain. Learn more.

The North American tour of The Kite Runner opened on April 9 at ASU Gammage in Tempe, AZ before moving on to nearly 20 cities.  Read the reviews here!

Today’s subject Salar Nader is currently living his theatre life as the Tabla Artist in the national tour of The Kite Runner. The show will conclude it’s tour in the Eisenhower Theater at Kennedy Center starting on June 25th and playing through June 30th.

Fans of the novel may be enthralled at seeing the characters and events of THE KITE RUNNER brought to life before their eyes, largely through moving performances and clever stagecraft. But this dramatization feels unsatisfying, an adaptation that ultimately fails to convince audiences that it is necessary much less an improvement on the original.

Experience the powerful stage adaptation of THE KITE RUNNER, now playing at Broadway In Chicago. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

THE KITE RUNNER, a play with music based on Khaled Hosseini's internationally best-selling novel, will play at Overture Center's Capitol Theater from Friday, May 24 to Sunday, May 26 for five performances.

All new photos have been released from the North American tour of THE KITE RUNNER, a play with music based on Khaled Hosseini’s internationally best-selling novel.

State Theatre New Jersey will present The Kite Runner, a play with music based on Khaled Hosseini’s internationally best-selling novel. Learn how to purchase tickets.

THE KITE RUNNER, a play with music based on Khaled Hosseini's internationally best-selling novel, will play at Overture Center's Capitol Theater from Friday, May 24 to Sunday, May 26 for five performances.

The Kite Runner, a play with music based on Khaled Hosseini’s internationally bestselling novel, returns home to San Jose’s Hammer Theatre in two weeks.

The full cast has been revealed for the North American tour of THE KITE RUNNER, a play with music based on Khaled Hosseini's internationally best-selling novel. Find out who is starring in the show here!

THE KITE RUNNER, a play with music based on Khaled Hosseini's internationally best-selling novel, will be on the MainStage at Proctors Wednesday, May 1- Thursday, May 2, 2024 for two performances.

The producers of THE KITE RUNNER, a play with music based on Khaled Hosseini's international best-selling novel, are pleased to announce that a North American tour of the acclaimed Broadway and West End production will launch in Spring 2024.