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Photographs from Parissa’s career drawn from the Timeline archive — performances, portraits, and teaching, from the most recent events back through the formative years.

Parissa singing in a white embroidered robe, microphone at Royce Hall — LIGHT ALWAYS PREVAILS, Farhang Foundation
Parissa with ensemble on stage at Tirgan Festival, Toronto — kamancheh, oud, tar, and tombak on Persian rugs, July 2019
Parissa with tar and tombak on Persian rugs — 8th Konya International Mystic Music Festival, Mevlana Culture Center, September 2011
Parissa — portrait from Nansa Intercultural festival program, Cantabria, 2006
Parissa in patterned vest — still from Sept jours en Perse (1979), Poésie, musique et peinture Persanes
Parissa singing — close-up from the NIRT television studio session, Tehran, 1977–78; Avaz-e Afshari, Dastgah-e Mahur, and Dastgah-e Chahargah with the Center for Preservation and Propagation of Iranian Music ensemble
Young Parissa singing in a Radif lesson with Mahmoud Karimi at the setar — National Music Conservatory, Tehran, late 1960s
Parissa singing at rehearsal with the Iranshahr Orchestra — Spectrum News 1 Los Angeles coverage of Light Always Prevails, March 2026
Parissa holding the Bita Prize crystal award — Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies, Stanford, 2018
Parissa in interview — white jacket, pearl necklace; Radio Zamaneh, Konya Mystic Music Festival, September 2011
Parissa and Daryush Tala'i performing Persian classical music on stage at the Honolulu Academy of Arts — Parissa at microphone, Tala'i on tar, 2002
Parissa singing — Bayat-e Esfahan, Tasnif-e Ab-e Hayat; live at Bagh-e Ferdows with Ensemble Darvish (Reza Shafieian), 1978
Parissa (Fatemeh Va'ezi) — portrait on back cover of Lloyd Miller's 1977 Center booklet, National Iranian Radio and Television era
Parissa in a cream high-collared blouse against a blue studio backdrop — portrait from the NIRT / formative years
Parissa — portrait accompanying Sama Babayi's Gathanik essay «Az Sokut ta Erfan» (From Silence to Mysticism), December 2024
Parissa — visiting professor at UC San Diego, Roghieh Chehre-Azad Distinguished Professorship, spring 2017
Parissa with tar and tombak on a Persian rug — Concert de Parissa à Paris, November 2008
Parissa with Behdad Shahideh (tar) and Dara Afraz (daf) on stage — Voix Sacrées du Monde, Lausanne, 2001
Parissa (Fatemeh Va'ezi) — portrait from the Zan-e Rooz era, late 1970s
Parissa with the Hossein Alizadeh ensemble on stage — Dastgah-e Nava, University of Tehran, c. 1977; santour, tar, kamancheh, and tombak
Parissa outdoors in a magenta turtleneck and light coat — portrait from her formative and early professional years, 1970s
Parissa and Hamnavazan on Persian rugs at Royce Hall — kamancheh, oud, setar, tombak, and daf; monumental tiled-arch projection; Farhang Foundation 11th Annual Nowruz, March 10, 2019
Parissa with Meshk Ensemble on stage at the Barbican Centre, London — Rumi anniversary concert, kamancheh, tar, and tombak, 2016
Parissa and Dastan Ensemble on stage at the Batha Museum courtyard — Barbary oak overhead, horseshoe arches, Fes Festival of World Sacred Music, June 2007
Parissa (Fatemeh Va'ezi) — portrait plate from Lloyd Miller's Music and Song in Persia, documenting her early career in the 1970s
Parissa seated in traditional tan robe, hands clasped — Asian Traditional Performing Arts Festival, Japan, 1978
Parissa with Hossein Alizadeh — Dastgah-e Nava, Shiraz Arts Festival, night two, 1976
Young Parissa in profile — early portrait from the years of vocal Radif study under Mahmoud Karimi
Parissa seated at the lecture table with Stanford University branding — Bishop Auditorium, Stanford Festival of Iranian Arts, 2019
Parissa and Hamnavazan Ensemble in concert — Vancouver, June 10, 2012; santur, oud, kamancheh, and daf on stage with floral arrangements
Parissa — portrait accompanying Shahrokh Golestan's BBC Persian report on the Dastan Ensemble concert, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, December 2006
Parissa singing — Women In Traditions / Tale of Love tour with Hossein Omoumi, 1998
Parissa with Ensemble Darvish before arched window — Dastgah-e Mahur studio session; footage reused in Sept jours en Perse, 1979
Parissa and ensemble at Hafezieh — Shiraz Arts Festival, 8th edition, 1974; columns of the tomb pavilion behind the stage
Parissa with Mohammad Heidari (santur), Hooshang Zarif (tar), and Mohammad Esmaili (tombak) — Tehran, 1355 / 1976–77
Parissa and ensemble on stage — kamancheh, oud, tar, and tombak; Recitals of the Nightingale, Stanford Festival of Iranian Arts, 2019
Parissa and Hamnavazan Ensemble in concert on stage in Sacramento — Persian classical music performance, 2012 tour finale
Parissa and Dastan Ensemble on tiered platforms with Persian rugs — kamancheh, tar, barbat, and daf; Los Angeles, September 30, 2006
Parissa with Hossein Omoumi and Saam on patterned rug — ney, frame drum, and book stand; Tale of Love performances
Parissa and the Center ensemble at Bagh-e Ferdows, Tehran — Parviz Meshkatian on santour, Dariush Tala'i (tar), and Parissa in blue; NIRT concert, Dastgah-e Mahur, c. 1977–78
Parissa during her historic television interview with Zhaleh Kazemi on Shoma va Television (NIRT), 1970s
Parissa in her teens — early portrait photograph, among the earliest known images
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