Releases

Currently available aboard Virgin America flights. Tara's debut classical album, released on the Delos label and distributed worldwide through Naxos. Now available on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon, ArkivMusic, and more
Review: www.wqxr.org

Tara on National Public Radio
"Classical pianist and composer Tara Kamangar's new album, East of Melancholy, guides us along the border between Iran and Russia....Kamangar performs the works of Russian, Armenian, and Iranian composers and talks about what classical piano music can communicate that other music forms cannot."
Featured in Documentary Kiosk: A Generation Destroyed by Madness
Directed by Ala Mohseni/ Produced by Maziar Bahari

Kiosk's live album "Triple Distilled," recorded at Yoshi's Jazz Club, chosen by presenter Mark Coles from BBC World's "World of Music" as one of the ten best world music albums of the year. Kiosk tracks featured in the films Jimmy Vestvood, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, and Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown (Iran Episode).
Triptyq: The Triptyq Sessions
Released at No. 1 on the classical iTunes chart and No. 8 on the classical Billboard chart; Videos exclusively premiered by Billboard and Yahoo Music.
Original Music Score for Fifi Howls from Happiness
Official Selection- New York, Berlin, and Telluride Film Festivals; Winner, Buenos Aires International Film Festival. “Addictively fascinating...The lovely meeting of artistic sensibilities makes this doc sing"--Village Voice "Thoughtful, moving"--New York Times "When a film about an artist becomes itself a transcendent work of art”--Peter Sellars
Presentation for TEDx Kish
On the lessons of the legendary piano pedagogue, Heinrich Neuhaus (1888-1964)
Featured in Persian Square by Iran Davar Ardalan
Rich with evocative images and vignettes, The Persian Square spans the extraordinary range of Iranian-American self expression, chronicling the myriad and indelible contributions Iranian emigres have made over their decades, fashioning American lives out of Persian identity and traditions."
Featured in Jewels of Allah by Nina Ansary
"An incisive, intellectually robust look at the feminist movement in Iran"--Publisher's Weekly
Mohsen Namjoo: Useless Kisses Arranged and recorded piano throughout album; Composed "Melancholy of a Beautiful Day Kiosk: Condition Orange Violin throughout album