Negar Bouban (
Persian
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: نگار بوبان, also transliterated as Negâr Boubân or Negar Buban) (born
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...
,
Iran
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, 1973) is an Iranian
oud and
barbat player and student of
Mansour Nariman
Iskandar Ibrahimi, better known by his stage name Mansour Nariman ( fa, منصور نریمان, 1935 in Mashhad − 14 July 2015 in Tehran) was an Iranian ''oud'' player, researcher and writer.
See also
* Music of Iran
The music of Iran enco ...
, best known for playing Iranian folk music and improvisational works.
Negar Bouban was a Fellow at Music OMI international residency 2012 in New York City and has also worked as a music teacher, music historian, and author.
She is an assistant professor in the music department of the Islamic Azad University, Shiraz branch.
Life
Bouban was born in Kurdistan and grew up in Tehran. At age eight, she played the
santur
The santur (also ''santūr'', ''santour'', ''santoor'') ( fa, سنتور), is a hammered dulcimer of Iranian origins.--- Rashid, Subhi Anwar (1989). ''Al-ʼĀlāt al-musīqīyya al-muṣāhiba lil-Maqām al-ʻIrāqī''. Baghdad: Matbaʻat al-ʻU ...
, but later took up the oud. She spent her high school years at
Farzanegan High School in Tehran and graduated from the University of Tehran with a degree in architecture. While studying architecture at the university, she became interested in acoustics. She chose the design of acoustic halls for rehearsing and performing Iranian music and compiled a plan for the Tehran Conservatory of Music as the subject of her master's thesis. In 2009, Boban received a doctorate in art research from Al-Zahra University. Her doctoral dissertation, "The Common Foundation of Rhythm in Iranian Instrumental Music and Persian Language," supervised by Omid Tabibzadeh and advised by Hossein Alizadeh and Zahra Rahbarnia) is about the relationship between weight in the official Persian language and traditional music.
Discography
* ''On Fire'' (2018)
* ''A Tale, Foretold'' (2016)
* ''Through'' (2012)
* ''Dar Gozar'' (2012)
* ''In Turn'' (2011)
* ''When There is More Beauty in the Contrary'' (2011)
* ''Be Hangam'' (2011)
* ''Fever'' (2011)
* ''Showqname'' (2010)
* ''Sarkhâne'' (2010)
* ''Continu'' (2008)
* ''Payaapey'' (2008)
* ''Charm of Tombak'' (2008)
* ''Az khiyal-e kopachinha-ye Alborz'' (2004)
* ''Shivang'' (2003)
* ''Goshayesh'' (2002)
References
External links
*
Iranian oud players
1973 births
Living people
Iranian women musicians
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