Mahan Esfahani

Born in Iran, trained largely in the U.S., active in Britain, and resident in Prague, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani has helped bring the solo harpsichord into the concert mainstream. In 2011, he became the first keyboardist to perform an all-harpsichord recital during the BBC Proms festival. Esfahani was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1984 but was raised mostly in the U.S. His father gave him lessons on the piano, and as a teenager, he discovered the harpsichord. Esfahani was admitted to Stanford University in California, where he studied musicology and music history under George H...