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Kian Soltani: Tiny Desk Concert

Watch a young cellist on the rise, offering music of virtuosity, sweet lyricism and a little fire from his Persian roots.
Kian Soltani plays a Tiny Desk Concert on March 8, 2019 (Amr Alfiky/NPR).

It's not every day someone walks into our NPR Music offices and unpacks an instrument made in 1680. And yet Kian Soltani, the 27-year-old cellist who plays with the authority

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