The Brooklyn Rail
“The Sinfonietta strings bloomed and enveloped, their celestial aura suspended. Shayesteh bowed with a microscopic intimacy…”

Rolling Stone
On Seminar and Performance at ‘Punkt Festival’

cdm
“nhA instantly conjures imagery and narratives even without a visual cue. He plays the kamancheh, and it can be heard mournfully crying atop raw electronics and woven into reverberations and stretched textures.”

nrw jazz
On Collaboration with Nils Petter Molvaer

Het Parool
“spelen voor mensen die normaal niet met live symfonische muziek in aanraking komen. Deze zomer touren ze met solist Soheil Shayesteh door het land”

Nieuwe Noten
“The fourth piece ‘žhâ’ by Shayesteh will ultimately win completely and rightly. It is what the Germans call a real “Gesamtkunstwerk””

JAZZINORGE
“When Soheil takes out his kamancheh, the music bends back in time and the duo’s journey is taken on a new turn. It sounds both blue and delicious, and the sound falls down with a feather-light weight.”

FOXYDIGITALIS
“Shayesteh wrings entire worlds from the Kamancheh, each drawn-out passage an invitation to search for inner transformation.”

AHK
“Alumnus Soheil Shayesteh won the Tera de Marez Oyens Prize 2021 on September 10 with his composition ‘Žhâ’“