Arsad Tahmasbi ( Persian: ارشد تهماسبی) is an Iranian musician, composer, radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and Tar and

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instrumentalist.

Biography

Arshad Tahmasbi was born on 18 January 1958 in Aligudarz. He spent his childhood and education in

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, Hamedan and Tehran. He learned the basics of music from Mohammad Reza Lotfi and attended classes by Lotfi and

Houshang Zarif Houshang Zarif ( fa, هوشنگ ظریف, also Romanized as "Hūshang Zarīf"; December 7, 1938 – March 7, 2020) was a master of tar and Persian classical music. Biography and career Houshang Zarif was born in 1938 in Tehran. He was a graduate ...

at the Center for the Preservation and Dissemination of Iranian music. He entered the Faculty of Music of the University of Tehran in 1979, but was forced to leave the university a year later due to the Cultural Revolution. He became a member of Chavosh Group in 1981 and collaborated with Hossein Alizadeh, Mohammad Reza Lotfi and Parviz Meshkatian in this group. In 1981, Tahmasebi established Tar and Setar. He has had several collaborations with Hossein Alizadeh in the field of ensemble and concert performance. He has collaborated with Alizadeh on the albums Shoorangiz, Raz o Niaz, Sobhgahi, Delshodgan and Hamnavi, and has also given many concerts with Alizadeh in Europe and the United States. Arshad Tahmasbi has published books on Iranian music and has presented several

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and CDs in this field. His most important activity in recent years has been the creation of a center for the introduction of the tar instrument, called the "Position of the Tar". In this center, old instruments, personal belongings of Tar player masters and historical documents of Iranian music are available. In the fifth of "Our Music Festival", which was held in December 2016, the golden statuette of the selected music album of traditional and non-verbal Iranian instrumental music was awarded to Arshad Tahmasebi for the album "Darvishkhan Works".

Artwork

* The book "''How Iranian Music: Exploring the Genres of Music''" 2021 * "''Book of Gooshe''" (Culture of Iranian Songs) 2018 * "''One Hundred and One Pishdaramad''" 2015 * "''Javabe Avaz''" (based on the vocal line of Mahmoud Karimi) 2009 * "''Shahroud"'' (Works by Arshad Tahmasebi, Aref Qazvini,

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) 2007 * "'' Radif Mirza Abdullah according to Noor Ali Boroumand''" 2006 * "''Green Shadows''" vocal by "

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" 2003 * "''Vocabulary weight reading''" (innovative method) 2001 * "''Deldar''" vocal by "Mohsen Keramati" 1999 * "''100 Rang Reng''" (one hundred old Rengs of Iranian music masters) 1999 * "''Se Chaharmezrab''" 1999 * "''Panje Dashti''" vocal by" Mohsen Keramati " (compositions by Aref and pieces by Abolhassan Saba) 1998 * "''Dashti Program''" (by Musa Maroufi, revision and editing of Tahmasbi's master book) 1997 * "''A collection of works by Rokanuddin Khan''" (music book and album) 1997 * "''Compositions of Aref Qazvini''" 1996 * "''Works of

''" (music book and album) 1994 * "''Hamnavaei''" (with Hossein Alizadeh and Dariush Zargari) 1993 * "''

Love-stricken Love-stricken (in Persian:''دل‌شدگان'';) is a 1992 Iranian historical drama film directed by Ali Hatami. The movie is mainly about some Iranian classical musicians in Ghajar era and their struggle to release their first Record which tak ...

''" (with Hossein Alizadeh) 1991

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tahmasbi, Arshad 1958 births Living people Iranian musicologists Iranian classical composers Iranian setar players Iranian tar players Iranian classical musicians University of Tehran alumni