Arshad Tahmasbi

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".

Arshad Tahmasbi was born on 18 January 1958 in Aligudarz. He spent his childhood and education in Sanandaj, Hamedan and Tehran. He learned the basics of music from Mohammad Reza Lotfi and attended classes by Lotfi and Houshang Zarif 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 ensamble 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 cassettes 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 In this center, old instruments, personal belongings of Tar player masters and historical documents of Iranian music are available.