Sina Bathaie — CBC Music Live, 2026

Live concert film of Sina Bathaie for CBC Music Live, in Canada, in 2026. A composer and santur player of Iranian origin based in Toronto, Sina Bathaie learned the santur, a Persian hammered box zither, from his father at the age of seven, before training in composition and orchestration. His music fuses traditional Persian melodies with ambient, post-rock and electronic textures, in a meditative, cinematic and often hypnotic world. His track “Seven Ponds” was ranked by CBC Music among the best Canadian songs of 2024, a sign of his growing recognition. This live session, recorded by the Canadian public broadcaster, documents a performance where santur, string instruments and electronic pads converse with finesse, representative of contemporary world music and of a Persian fusion scene thriving in Canada and Europe alike. With no official setlist published, the song order is not reliably documented. Keywords: Sina Bathaie live, CBC Music 2026, santur, Persian music, world music, ambient, fusion, live concert film.