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Elana Sasson: In Between

by Katchie Cartwright
October 19, 2025

Elana Sasson's work is singularly intercultural and cosmopolitan, by heritage, training and aesthetic preference. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she was naturally steeped in American music of various sorts and learned fundamentals of Western classical music in school. At home, though, especially with her grandfather and through years of private lessons with the contemporary vocal duo Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat, she listened to and studied the Kurdish and Persian classical music of her ancestry. ...