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Parham Nassehpoor
Halle, Germany

improvisation in Dastgah Bayat Esfahan
Parham Nassehpoor - kamanche

Parham Nassehpoor, multi-instrumentalist, but mainly known as a Persian Tar player, was born in Tehran, Iran, 1976. He is the youngest child of Nasrollah Nassehpoor, vocalist and Persian vocal professor.

In 1983 he took the course, Music for Children/Carl Orff, with Mohammad Reza Darvishi, ethnomusicologist and composer. After finishing the course, at the age of 8, he started learning Persian Tar and the Radif repertoire of Mirza Abdollah with Zeydollah Tolui. Then he studied Persian Tar with Hossein Alizadeh, the Radif repertoire of Ali Akbar Shahnazi with Dariush Talai and took a master course with Mohammad Reza Lotfi. In order to continue his musical studies, he had a course with his father, Nasrollah Nassehpoor for vocal Radif repertoire of Persian Classical Music. For studying theoretical old Persian music he studied with Prof. Seyyed Abdollah Anwar. Then he studied the Radif repertoire of Mirza Hossein Gholi with Reza Lotfi Larijani. Besides his first and main Instrument, Persian Tar, he has learnt some other instruments like Kamanche, Barbat, Setar and Azeri Tar by himself, but amoung these instruments, Kamanche is no more a hobbyinstrument, but instead an Instrument, on witch he has reached his own style. Because of his Azerbaijani origin, Azerbaijani Classical Music influences his style of Kamanche playing. He teaches Persian Tar and plays as a Persian Tar solist since 1996. He lives in Halle, Germany since 2005 and studies Musicology at Martin-Luther University of Halle.

www.parhamnassehpoor.com