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List Of Iranian Musicians
This is a list of Iranian (Persian people, Persian) musicians and musical groups. Classical Persian classical/traditional * Mirza Abdollah * Maryam Akhondy * Nematollah Aghasi * Salar Aghili * Azam Ali * Hossein Alizadeh * Hossein Khajeh Amiri , Hossein Khajeh Amiri (Iraj) * Aref Ensemble * Davood Azad * Pejman Azarmina * Gholam-Hossein Banan * Iraj Bastami * Hossein Behroozinia * Sima Bina * Delkash * Chemirani Ensemble * Mehdi Bozorgmehr * Alireza Eftekhari * Nur Ali Elahi * Reza Ghassemi * Akbar Golpayegani * Mohammad Mehdi Goorangi * Shusha Guppy * Hamavayan Ensemble * Hayedeh * Parvaz Homay * Sa'id Hormozi * Mirza Hossein-Qoli * Kayhan Kalhor * The Kamkars * Darvish Khan * Ruhollah Khaleghi * Fariborz Lachini * Lian Ensemble * Mohammad Reza Lotfi * Javad Maroofi * Marzieh (singer), Marzieh * Mastan Ensemble * Moein (singer), Moein * Mahasti * Rokneddin Mokhtari * Mohammad Motamedi * Hamid Motebassem * Shahram Nazeri * Hamid Reza Noorbakhsh * Hossein Omoumi * Parisa * Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. With a Ethnicities in Iran, multi-ethnic population of over 92 million in an area of , Iran ranks 17th globally in both List of countries and dependencies by area, geographic size and List of countries and dependencies by population, population. It is the List of Asian countries by area, sixth-largest country entirely in Asia and one of the world's List of mountains in Iran, most mountainous countries. Officially an Islamic republic, Iran is divided into Regions of Iran, five regions with Provinces of Iran, 31 provinces. Tehran is the nation's Capital city, capital, List of cities in Iran by province, largest city and financial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chemirani Ensemble
The Chemirani ensemble is a notable Persian classical music ensemble. The group is made of Chemirani family: *Bijan Chemirani *Djamchid Chemirani *Keyvan Chemirani *Maryam Chemirani In 1988, the Chemirani Trio (Bijan, Keyvan and Jamshid) was born and their special chemistry and peerless virtuosity has popularised the zarb. Djamchid Chemirani was born in Tehran in 1942. he has studied the zarb, also called the tombak, since the age of eight. His teacher was Hossein Tehrani. Under Tehrani's demanding tutelage, Chemirani made rapid progress and soon became a brilliant player. Since his arrival in Paris in 1961 he has taught at the ''Centre d'Etudes de Musique Orientale'' in the ''Paris Sorbonne Institut de Musicologie''. He has performed with eminent Iranian musicians Dariush Safvat, Daryush Talai and Madjid Kiani. Born in Paris in 1968, Keyvan Chemirani started learning the zarb at the age of 13. Taught by his father, he soon assimilated the traditional technique. He studied f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kayhan Kalhor
Kayhan Kalhor (, born on 24 November 1964) is an Iran, Iranian Kurds, Kurdish kamancheh and setar player, and a vocal composer. He has received three Grammy Award for Best Traditional World Music Album nominations. Kalhor has also earned two nominations and won one Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album as a member of the Silk Road Ensemble. Early life and education Kayhan Kalhor was born in Kermanshah to a Kurdish family. He began studying music at the age of seven. By the age of thirteen, he was playing in the National Orchestra of Radio and Television of Iran. Continuing his music studies under the supervision of various teachers, he studied in the Iranian radif (music), radif tradition and also travelled to study in the northern part of Khorasan province, where music traditions have Kurdish and Turkish influences as well as Persian. At a musical conservatory in Tehran, Kalhor worked under the directorship of Mohammad-Reza Lotfi who is from the northeast of Iran. Kalhor also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirza Hossein-Qoli
Mirza Hossein-Qoli (; 1853–1916), also known as ''Agha Mirza Hosseingholi Farahani'', was a musician and tar player of the Qajar era. He and his older brother Mirza Abdollah started learning music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ... from their father Ali-Akbar Farāhāni. Further reading *Haghighat, A., ''Honarmandan-e Irani az Aghaz ta Emrooz'', Tehran, Koomesh Publications, 2004. (in Persian) *Khaleghi, R., ''Sargozasht-e Musighi-ye Iran'', Tehran, Ferdowsi Publications, 1955. (in Persian) 1853 births 1916 deaths Musicians from Tehran Qajar courtiers 19th-century Iranian musicians 20th-century Iranian musicians {{string-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sa'id Hormozi
Ostad Sa'id Hormozi () (1898–1976) was an Iranian musician who is remembered for his efforts to "promote authentic Iranian music" and pass it to modern musicians. He was born in one of the old neighborhoods of Tehran called Sangalaj. He was a prominent radif master and virtuoso tar and setar player. He was a student of Darvish Khan (student of Mirza Hossein-Qoli, "one of the pioneers of Iranian music"), who awarded Hormozi with the medal of the "Golden Hatchet". That prize was given only to Khan's best students. He also studied musical ''color'' and ''rhythm'' with Haj Ali Akbar Khan Shahnaz (son of that same Mirza Hossein-Qoli). He was friends and regularly played with Soleiman Khan Amir Ghasemi, a "famous professors of Iranian song and music." In 1928 Hormozi founded a music school in Shapur street in Tehran. Later he cooperated with the "Center for preservation and propagation of Persian music" as a master teacher (Ostad) of setar, teaching musicians who were already pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parvaz Homay
Parvaz Homay (; born 9 February 1980) is an Iranian composer, lyricist, vocalist, and performer specializing in Persian classical-style music. Also known by his birth name Saeid Jafarzadeh Ahmadsargurabi (), he is the founder and leader of the Mastan Ensemble. Biography Homay was born in Gilan, a province located in the northwest portion of Iran, bordering the Caspian Sea. From an early age, Homay showed an interest in the arts. At the age of 15, he began singing and acting in theater. At 16, he entered art school, receiving his diploma in painting. At 19, he left theater school and decided to study musical harmonization and composition, focusing on piano and setar. He received his formal education in art studies and pursued his degree from The Conservatory of Music in Tehran, Iran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran Count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayedeh
Ma'soumeh Dadehbala (; April 10, 1942 – January 20, 1990), known professionally as Hayedeh (, ), was an Iranian singer with a contralto vocal range. Known for her wide range of voice, her career spanned over two decades, and she has been widely described as one of the most popular and influential musicians of Iran. Early life and career Ma'soumeh Dadehbala was born on April 10, 1942 in Tehran. She was the elder sister of another popular singer Mahasti. Her professional career began in 1968 as a singer on a Persian traditional music program in Radio Tehran called " Golhâye Rangârang" ( "Colorful Flowers") directed by Davoud Pirnia. Hayedeh studied '' Avaz'' (Persian vocal music) with the Persian violinist and composer Ali Tajvidi. "Azadeh" (1968), which was composed by Ali Tajvidi, with lyrics by Rahi Moayeri, was Hayedeh's first official hit and debut also. It was first performed in 1968 on Radio Tehran with the Gol-ha Orchestra. In this year she released another titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamavayan Ensemble
Hamāvāyān Ensemble () is a Persian music group. History Led by Iranian instrumentalist and composer Hossein Alizadeh, the Hamavayan Ensemble performs new interpretations of classical Persian music. The ensemble features male and female vocalists, tar and setar (ancient plucked lutes from Persia), and percussion. Maestro Alizadeh's most recent recording, Endless Vision, featuring the Hamavayan Ensemble with the Armenian duduk player Djivan Gasparyan, was nominated for a Grammy. Members *Hossein Alizadeh, tar, shourangiz (new lute) * Mohammad Motamedi, vocal * Afsaneh Rasaei, vocal *Majid Khaladj, tombak *Ali Boustan, setar *Pouria Akhavass, vocal *Nima Alizadeh, robab (lute) *Saba Alizadeh, kamancheh *Mohammad enshaie, kamancheh, gheychak Discography * ''Razé No'', Mahoor Institute Of Culture And Art, 1998. * ''Ode To Flowers,'' Bâ Music Records, 2007. * ''If Like Birds And Angels, I Could Fly…,'' Traditional Crossroads, 2010. * ''Badeh Toei,'' Iran Concert, 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shusha Guppy
Shushā Guppy (; née Shamsi Assār (; 24 December 1935 – 21 March 2008) was a writer, editor and a singer of Persian and Western folk songs. She lived in London from the early 1960s, until her death in 2008. Early life Her father, Sayyed Mohammad-Kāzem Assār, was a Shia theologian and Professor of Philosophy at University of Tehran. At age 16 in 1951, Shusha was sent to Paris, where she studied French Literature and philosophy at Sorbonne, and also trained as an opera singer. In Paris she encountered artists, writers and poets such as Louis Aragon, José Bergamín, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. She was encouraged by Jacques Prévert to record an album of Persian folk songs. She married British writer, explorer, and art collector Nicholas Guppy in 1961. The couple had two sons, Darius and Constantine, but divorced in 1976. At the time of her marriage, she moved to London, where she became fluent in English; she was already fluent in Persian and French. Guppy wrote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Mehdi Goorangi
Mohammad Mehdi Goorangi (; born 23 June 1975 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian musician and composer. Life and career Goorangi started playing piano and the dulcimer (the Santour) at a young age. He gained his first musical experiences by Musical composition, composing songs for the Educational-affairs Association of Education Organization when he was in high school. He had the honor of being instructed by some of the greatest musicians such as: Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh, Mohammad Tagahi Massoudieh, Alireza Mashayekhi, Shahin Farhat, Sharif lotfi, Sharif Lotfi, Majid Kiani, Mohammad Ali Haddadian, Mohammad Esmaili, Masood Shenasa, Amir-Ashraf Arianpoor and Mohammad-Reza Darvishi while studying at the university. In 1995 he started working for the IRIB (The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting), composing and arranging melodies, songs and orchestral pieces. In 1996 he became a member of the Young Composers Association of the IRIB Organization, managed by Hassan Ria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akbar Golpayegani
Akbar Golpayegani (; 30 January 1934 – 4 November 2023), also known as Golpa (), was an Iranian traditional singer. Life and career Born in Tehran, Golpayegani started his musical training in 1951. At 14 he had his first experience in a choir, and at 15 he became a member of the Nizam School Music Association. Golpayegani had his breakout in 1956, when he began participating in the National Iranian Radio musical show ''Radio Golha'', on which he collaborated until 1979. He was the first Iranian singer to perform abroad, taking part in a 1956 international festival promoted by Unesco. In 1969, his performance of "Poem of Saadi" was included in the soundtrack of Pier Paolo Pasolini's film ''Medea''. In 1984, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Tehran. Golpayegani died on 4 November 2023, at the age of 89. He was buried in the artists' wing of the Behesht-e Zahra Behesht-e Zahra ( ; ) is the largest cemetery in Iran. Located in the southern part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Ghassemi
Reza Ghassemi (; born 1949) is an Iranian novelist and musician. Life and career Ghassemi was born in 1949 in the city of Isfahan, Iran. In addition to writing, he plays Iranian classical music and the Persian Lute, known as the Setar. He has composed songs for the Iranian maestro Shahram Nazeri and performed with various Iranian vocalists, such as Mohammad Reza Shajarian and Sepideh Raissadat. His best known composition is the last track on the classical Iranian album '' Gol-e Sadbarg'', released in 1984. The album also includes compositions by Jalal Zolfonoun, Shahram Nazeri, and Reza Ghassemi. Ghassemi immigrated to France in 1986, where he still lives and teaches Iranian music. Farrokhzad Layegh studied the setar with Ghassemi. Reza Ghassemi's latest album, ''14 Cheerful Pieces'', featuring Iranian vocalist Sepideh Raissadat, was released in France on October 25, 2010, by Buda Musique Records. He has published three novels: ''Nocturnal Orchestra of Woods'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
