Pooyan Nassehpoor, santoor player, the second child of Ostad Nasrollah Nasehpoor, was born in Tehran, Iran, 1975.
In his family he was acquainted with Persian and Azerbaijani art music. In 1983 he had a course for Child Music with Mohammad Reza Darvishi (researcher of Persian regional music). After finishing the course he started to learn the santoor (Persian dulcimer) with Ostad Majid Kiani. Then he continued his santoor studies with Dr. Soheil Sadi-Nezhad. In order to continue his musical studies, he had a course with his father for vocal radif repertoire of Persian art music. For studying theoretical Old Persian music he studied with Prof. Sayyed Abd-Allah Anwar.
He is researcher of the music of the Ghajar period. He also teaches santoor and has solo, duet and ensemble performances as a member of Nassehpoor Ensemble.
E-mail: Pooyan.Nassehpoor at gmx.de
Pooyan Nassehpoor’s santoor website
Hammered Dulcimer Discussion Group: Description
Greetings! This group is for all those instrumentalists interested in the hammered dulcimers. They are known by many names listed here:
Chinese Yang-Chin, Egyptian Santoor, German Hackbrett, Greek Santoori, Hungarian Cimbalom, Indian Santoor, Iraqi Santoor, Persian Santoor, Turkish Santoor and so on…
We welcome your participation. Please introduce yourself, and remember to put your dulcimer related website URLs in the links section. The calendar too, is available to all. Please keep all posts related to hammered dulcimers. Mentioning other instruments and music in context is fine. However, political posts, flames, and those posts considered hostile or offensive to list members are off topic, and repeated off topic posts are grounds for removal.
This group has been established by Pooyan Nassehpoor (moderator).
Very Rare Recording of Persian Art Music
The DoveSong Foundation in cooperation with the Nassehpoor Family of Tehran is pleased to provide all people of the world with this page of important and rare music. For the first time, these great treasures of Persian Art Music are being made available, transcribed to MP3 format by Pooyan Nassehpoor from very rare recordings.
Together the DoveSong Foundation and the Nassehpoor family dedicate this page to our brothers and sisters in all lands, that may we learn to love and understand each other through an understanding our our music and culture.
