Nazanin Pedarsani Iranian Female Tonbak Player

12 Jan

Nazanin Pedarsani, Iranian female tonbak player was born in Tehran, Iran in 1988. At the age of 4, she showed interests in Iranian percussion music and started learning tonbak (Persian goblet drum) from Hossein Tehrani (not to be confused with the late maestro Hossein Tehrani, the father of modern tonbak). Later she was student of maestro Mahmoud Farahmand and learnt many important points of Iranian drumming and rhythms from him.

She learnt daf (Persian frame drum) from maestro Bijan Kamkar and tar (Persian plucked instrument) under the supervision of maestro Zeydollah Tolui and Mohammad Reza Ebrahimi.

She participated in different concerts and festivals in Iran and other countries such as Canada, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Armenia and Morocco. Once in the Young Soloists Festival of Iran, she was chosen as the best soloist by the referees of the festival.

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