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 ...

Chang is a string instrument which flourished in Persia in many forms from its introduction, about 3000 B.C.E., until the 17th century. The original type was the arched harp as seen at Chogha Mis and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few artists can say they’re creating something entirely new and unique, but for musician and producer Danny Asadi – pioneer of Persian trap music – it’s all he’s ever done. Growing up in Ohio ...

Amid deep geopolitical uncertainty, the Beijing workshop of Majid and Massoud Shamaeezadah preserves and shares Persian ...