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Nour Ali Boroumand
Nour Ali Boroumand was born in Tehran in 1905 and died in 1977. His talent in music was discovered when he was six years old when he learned how to play Tonbak by self-learning. Nour Ali's father was a music lover and frequently invited musicians to his home, and great names such as Darvish Khan and Seyed Hossein Taherzadeh were among them. Boroumand studied Tar and introductory Radif at thirteen from Darvish Khan for three years. At sixteen, Nour Ali was sent to Germany (Berlin) to be educated at high school and learn Western music. During this period, he trained what he knew about Radif by a Setar (he named it Roshanak). He went back to Iran for almost one year and learned music from Musa Marufī, then he went back to Berlin to educate in medicine, but unfortunately, after three years, he lost eyesight due to sudden illness. Nour Ali returned to Tehran for the rest of his life and learned Tar, Setar, Santur, and Radif. After years of learning and teaching music, by the invitation of Mahdi Barkeshli, he became head of the music program at Tehran University. He taught Radif to many masters of Persian traditional music, such as Akbar Golpayegani, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, Parviz Meshkatian, Hossein Alizadeh, Jalal Zolfonun, Shahram Nazeri, and Noureddin Razavi Sarvestani. In addition, his unique interpretation and teaching style have undeniably influenced traditional Persian music.
Reng of Rak composed by Nour Ali Boroumand, played by Nima Fereidooni
Parisa
Fatemeh Vaezi (Parisa) was born in Tonekabon (or Shahsavar) in 1950. She was encouraged by her father to learn Art during her childhood. Due to her talent in singing and her father's support, Parisa earned first prize in singing in a high school students' Art competition in Iran. After this event and after finishing high school, she traveled to Tehran to learn singing and Radif from the well-known master of Persian classical music, Mahmoud Karimi. After two years of Radif education, she was employed at the Ministry of Art for five years. Then, she met Dariush Safvat, and by his invitation, Parisa joined the Center for the Preservation and Research of Music. During this time, she learned more detailed lessons about Radif from Abdollah Davami. After the 1979 revolution in Iran, the singing of women became illegal by the regime, but she refused to migrate to another country. For many years, Parisa taught her female students at home and later at the Center for the Preservation and Research of Music. Since 1995, she has started performing in many concerts around the entire world, mainly with the Dastan ensemble and Hossein Omoumi.
The Tasnif of Amadehi composed by Dastan ensemble
singer: Parisa
The Tasnif of Del Miravad Ze Dastam composed by Jalil Andalibi
singer: Parisa
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Parviz Meshkatian
Parviz Meshkatian was born in Naishabur in 1955 and died in 2009. Meshkatian studied music from age six until his youth with his father, who was a santur master. Then, at nineteen, he was admitted to the Faculty of Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Tehran. He studied Radif with Nour Ali Boroumand and Dariush Safvat. Meshkatian's professional work with radio began in 1977, but along with other artists, he left the radio a year later due to the killing of people by the military before the Iranian revolution. Meshkatian had a great mastery of Santur playing, and his collaboration with great musicians and singers of his time led to the creation of lasting works. Some of these names are Shahram Nazeri, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Hossein Alizadeh, and Mohammad Reza Lotfi. He was one of the founders of Sheyda Ensemble, Aref Ensemble, and Chavosh Artistic and Cultural Foundation.
Chaharmezrab (named Khazan) by Parviz Meshkatian
Prelude to Bidad by Parviz Meshkatian
Parviz Yahaghi
Parviz Yahaghi (or Parviz Sedighi Parsi) was born in Tehran, in 1935 and died in 2007. Parviz Yahaghi started learning violin early from his uncle Hossein Yahaghi, a violinist and musician. Yahaghi joined the national radio program when he was 20 years old. For two decades, he composed many songs and recorded many pieces of Persian traditional music with the Golha orchestra as the violin soloist. Parviz Yahaghi married Homeyra in 1970, a well-known pop music singer, and divorced in 1978. His cooperation with great musicians and singers such as Ali Tajvidi, Habibollah Badiei, Homayoun Khorram, Asadollah Malek, Banan, Marzieh, Delkash, Pouran, Elahe, Homeyra, Mahasti, and Dariush Rafei lead to many masterpieces of music which still are enjoyable to listen after decades.
Violin solo by Parviz Yahaghi
Ruhollah Khaleqi
Ruhollah Khaleqi was born in Mahan (a small town close to the Kerman) in 1906 and died in 1965. Khaleqi started music his courses at Ali-Naqi Vaziri's music school in 1925 and earned a master's assistant position in 1933 after eight years of learning music. Khaleqi is known as the first complete musician of Persian classical music because of his knowledge of composing, harmony, conducting, and Radif. He was the founder of the Persian National Music Society in 1949 (named the National Conservatory of Music later). Besides many musical masterpieces remaining from Khaleqi, he was the conductor of the Golhas orchestra, director of Payām-e-Novin Magazine (a magazine about Persian and Soviet Union art, culture, and literature), teacher of theoretical music, and writer of many books about music such as History of Persian Music, Harmony of Western Music, Theory of Eastern Music and Theory of Persian Music.
The Tasnif of Ey Iran composed by Ruhollah Khaleqi
singer: Banan
The Tasnif of Kusheh chin composed by Ruhollah Khaleqi
singer: Banan
Shahram Nazeri
Shahram Nazeri was born in 1950 in Kermanshah. His father and mother were good at singing and had beautiful voices. His father was a Setar player and was familiar with Radif. The appropriate artistic environment enabled Shahram Nazeri to perform his first art program on Kermanshah radio at the age of seven, along with Darvish, one of the famous musicians of Kermanshah at that time. In 1967, Nazeri went to Tehran to learn music from well-known masters of traditional music, Abdollah Davami, Nour Ali Boroumand, Abdolali Vaziri, Ahmad Ebadi, and Mahmud Karimi. He started his professional music work in cooperation with the Sheyda ensemble and Mohammad Reza Lotfi. After over 50 years of working in Persian traditional music as a singer, he became famous worldwide and earned many awards. His epic sound was a unique characteristic of Nazeri as a singer. Due to his interest in Rumi, many of his works are accompanied by beautiful poems from Rumi, which turned his works of art into a window to introduce Rumi to the world. Along with Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Shahram Nazeri is one of the most influential Iranian singers in the last half-century of the history of Persian music. He is also the first person to publish albums based on the stories of Shahnameh (epic story of Persian myths by Ferdowsi).
Shahram Nazeri and Loris Tjeknavorian Orchestra
The Tasnif of Bigharar composed by Mohammad Jalil Andalibi
singer: Shahram Nazeri
Simin Agha Razi
Simin Agha Razi was born in 1938 in Tehran and died in 2009. After finishing elementary school, she attended the National Conservatory of Music and mastered playing several instruments. Simin learned the violin from Abolhassan Saba, the piano from Javad Maroufi, the Qanun from Mehdi Meftah, the singing from Gholam Hossein Banan, and the Tombak from Hossein Tehrani. Some of Simin's pieces of music were written by Parichehr Khajeh (master of Qanun) in two books (Golnosh and Taraneh) for Qanun. Mehdi Meftah, who is considered one of the leading figures of playing Qanun in Iran, has said about Agharzi:
"Simin revived this ancient and original Iranian instrument (Qanun) with her special playing art and talent."