Many musicians and music enthusiasts attended the ceremony in which various aspects of the lives of Tehrani and his student Esmaeili were reviewed. Director of the Naghmeh-Shahr Art and Cultural ...

Keyvan Taheri, a highly experienced tonbak craftsman, runs a workshop in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Each drum takes three years to make and is produced in close collaboration with the player who has ...

I first encountered the tonbak – Iran’s indigenous drum – as a student, when I heard it on an old LP I found in a dusty corner of the library at London’s Royal College of Music. Instantly, I was ...

“The beats of the goblet drum were as rugged as the earth under my feet, the taar strings offering solace to the soul, like a date palm from the scorching sun, the high-pitch kamamcheh glides ...

TEHRAN-Iranian pianist and composer along with tonbak player Emran Foruzesh is scheduled to take the stage at Tehran’s Rudaki Hall from May 8 to 10.