Translated by Shahab Jafari, the book has been published by Nay o Ney Music Book Publisher in 466 pages, ILNA reported. “The History of Musical Instruments” is an unabridged republication of the 1940 ...

A new donation has helped secure the future for UCLA’s Iranian music program. The program will hold the first fund-supported event “Classical Persian Music: Hossein Omoumi, from Isfahan to Irvine” on ...

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, once dubbed "the Pavarotti of Persian classical music" by the Toronto Globe & Mail, had never been known as a particularly political person. That was before the widely ...

Ostaad (Master)Farhang Sharif (born 1931) in Amol, northern Iran is a well-known Iranian musician and renowned taar (Persian lute) player who has spent more than 70 ...

The santur sounds out of another time. Out of place, too, in a New Haven apartment. The Persian instrument has been played for centuries. As first-year music doctoral student Hadas Bram GRD ’31 sits ...

CRADLING the instrument he's been playing for four decades, Hossein Behroozinia launches into an astonishing display of musicianship and manual dexterity on the barbat. The song is lyrical, but ...