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Pir Zia will continue to share teachings from the second half of the Mysticism of Sound, with Tarana and LatifaNoor performing excerpts from Hazrat Inayat Khan’s ballet, Shakuntala.

Hazrat Inayat Khan wrote a ballet in 1913 based on the epic Hindu tale of Shakuntala, from the Mahabharata. This may have been somewhat in response to Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, which was premiered the same year, although the character of Murshid’s music is much gentler than that of Stravinsky’s piece. Sixteen fragments survive. LatifaNoor and Tarana will play a few excerpts from the ballet, arranged for cello and piano. It is interesting to note that during this same period while living in Moscow, Murshid met with Scriabin, one of western music’s greatest mystic composers.

LatifaNoor is a cellist and vocalist who plays with the Cassatt String Quartet and the New York City Opera. As a cellist, she has recorded for Telarc, Nonesuch, and RCA with performances in China, Japan, Mexico, Italy, England, Germany, Finland, Australia, Israel, India, and the US. LatifaNoor’s studies of Indian Raga with Pandit Pran Nath, Shabda Kahn and Sarmad Michael Harrison inspired the creation of the CD LatifaNoor, a synthesis of Raga and Western classical music for cello, voice, and tamboura. When she is not traveling for concerts or leading meditations, LatifaNoor loves walking in nature with her basset hound, cooking for her family and friends and knitting socks.

Tarana Jobin is the Musical Director of the Inayati Order and has conducted the San Francisco Opera in seventeen performances of six different productions, including two world premieres, since 2004. She can be heard on disc conducting Frederica von Stade in music of Chris Brubeck, and leading John Musto’s Volpone which was nominated for a Grammy in 2010. From 2015-2018 she served as Resident Conductor for the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. While working part-time for the Inayati Order, Tarana maintains varied professional projects including with the LA Opera, LA Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series, and Center for Contemporary Opera in New York City.

Pir Zia Inayat-Khan continues his grandfather’s teachings as the spiritual leader of The Inayati Order, an interfaith, mystical fellowship with branches worldwide. His books include Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity and the Mystical Quest (2012) and Mingled Waters: Sufism & the Mystical Unity of Religions (2017). Pir Zia and his family live in Richmond, Virginia, where he teaches regularly at the Inayati Order’s North American headquarters, called the Astana.

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