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 master and 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 Mirza Abdollah’s instrumental repertoire of
Persian classical music from 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 Radif,
vocal repertoire of Persian classical music. For studying
theoretical old Persian music he studied with 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, Setar and
Azeri Tar by himself. He believes that Azeri and Indian
classical music has influenced his music.
Nassehpoor Family:
Nasrollah Nassehpoor
Peyman Nasehpour
Pooyan Nassehpoor
Masters:
Reza Lotfi Larijani
