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I always had a passion for music but never got a chance till the recent years to study music more seriously. I am mostly interested in Persian classical music but have not limited myself to it.  

I have a studied different musical instruments for a short period of time and I am still taking lessons and practicing some of them. I play Piano / Keyboard, Santur, Daf and Tombak. I really like singing but I don't have the voice for it however I still took some Avaz lessons.  As my interest in percussion grows I also started to play a bit of Drums in Fall 2005.

Yet, I haven't discovered which instrument is going to be my main instrument. I love playing all of the instruments. Even though I have played Tombak for a shorter period of time than my other instruments, I think I have made more progress due to the nature of the instrument . Since there is no melody involved you just need to feel the rhythm and acquire the ability to produce it, advancement is achieved in a shorter period of time than melodic instruments.

 

Keyboard
 
Instructors:
Name Comment Location Time
around 5-10 session Tehran, Iran Grade 5/6 -- 1992
Mr. Farhad Ahmadpour  around 10 group sessions Tehran, Iran Summer 1993
Mr. Hossein Lashkari near 30 sessions  Tehran, Iran 1995-1996

 

Some Tips from:
Jafar Ghafari (My uncle), Morad Entezarioun, Debbera Han, Mehran Ali-Askarian, Ehsan Mirhadi , Peter , Farzaneh Shahrokhi, MehrAfarin Hosseini Tabatabaie, Koorosh Akhavan,...

 

Santur
 
Instructors:
Name Comment Location Time
Mr. Lashkari  4 sessions in on week Tehran, Iran Dec 2000
Mr. Ahad Rahnamaee 10 sessions Toronto, Canada Summer 2002
Mr. Masoud Ataee 11 session San Diego, USA Winter 2003
Mr. Bahram Mohammad-Zadeh Khayyat 3 sessions Irvine/San Diego, USA Winter 2003
Mr. Shamil Erfanian 4 sessions Irvine, USA Winter 2003
Mr. Ahad Rahnamaee 1 session Toronto Canada, Summer 2003
Mr. Bahram Mohammad-Zadeh Khayyat 10 sessions Brea, San Diego Fall 2003
Mr. Bahram Mohammad-Zadeh Khayyat 1 session Brea Summer 2004

 

Some Tips from:
Kamran Yasnafar, Masoud Kamgarpour, Amir Chinaee,...

 

Tombak
 
Instructors:
Name Comment Location Time
Siamak Pouyan 8 sessions Irvine, USA Winter 2003
Dariush Zarbafian 2 sessions Waterloo/Guelph, Canada Summer 2003
Bahman Rajabi 4 sessions in 10 days Tehran, Iran Summer 2003
Amir-Abbas Etemad-Zadeh 11 sessions San Diego, USA Fall 2003
Amir-Abbas Etemad-Zadeh 10 sessions San Diego, USA Summer 2004
Pejman Hadadi 1 session and 1 group session in Tehran Long Beach, USA Summer 2004
Hamid Ghambari 2 sessions Tehran Summer 2004
Hamid Ghambari 8 sessions Tehran Dec. 2005
Babak Rokni Vaalaa 1 session Tehran Dec. 2005

 

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Mohammad Esmaili, Amir Hossein Tarighat , Amir Afifi, Mehranoush Hosseini Tabatabaie, Ali Sadr, Arash Shahi,...

 

Daf
 
Instructors:
Name Comment Location Time
Amir-Abbas Etemad-Zadeh 2 Daf/Tombak sessions San Diego, USA Fall 2003
Pejman Hadadi 1 Daf/Tombak session Long Beach, USA Summer 2004
Hamid Ghambari 1 Daf/Tombak session Tehran Summer 2004
Pejman Hadadi 1 Tombak workshop Tehran, Iran Summer 2004

 

Some Tips from:
Hamed Bahador , Nastaran Vafi, ...

 

Avaz

Instructors:
Name Comment Location Time
Mr. Hossein Omoumi 1 double session Santa Monica, USA Winter 2003
Mr. Ali Mohammad Tehrani 10 sessions (radif and group singing workshop) Waterloo, Canada Summer 2003
Mr. Reza Rezai 1 session Tehran, Iran Summer 2003
Mr. Ali Mohammad Tehrani 6 group sessions (radif) Waterloo, Canada Winter 2004

 

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Music Theory

Instructors:
Name Comment Location Time
Mr. Terry Krotecsh Music 111 
( Fundamentals of Music Theory )
Waterloo, Canada Summer 2003
Mr. Kamran Omid  3 sessions 
( Music in general and solfege )
Tehran, Iran Summer 2004
Mr. Leonard Enns  Music 270
( Music Theory 1 )
Waterloo, Canada Fall 2004
Mr. Simon S. J. Wood Music 275 
( Music & Technology -- Audit )
Waterloo, Canada Fall 2004
Mr. Leonard Enns  Music 271
( Music Theory 2 )
Waterloo, Canada Winter  2005
Mr. Kamran Omid  3 sessions 
( Rhythm  )
Tehran, Iran Dec. 2005

 

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Drums

Instructors:
Name Comment Location Time
Mr. Alex Filipowicz 4 sessions Waterloo, Canada Nov.  2005

 

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