'Peyman is a friendly, helpful and compassionate human being. He tirelessly continues
to promote his music on the World Wide Web.' RHYTHMWEB of Eric Stuer
'Type in 'tonbak' on your search engine and you will find Peyman.' PowerHaus
of Paul Marshall
'Peyman is a drumming community dynamo and gives a great perspective on Middle Eastern
drumming.' Drum Journal of Dale Wambaugh
'Peyman Nasehpour is a distinguish percussionist with a scientific approach to performing
and teaching tombak. He also teaches daf and ghaval (Azeri frame drum commonly known as dayereh-ye-Azeri).' Tombak Network
of Hormoz Dilmaghani
'Peyman is the driving force behind promoting tonbak, ghaval and daf on the Internet.'
DrumFest of Daveed Korup
'Peyman is a passionate and dedicated educator and promoter of Persian art music
and it's instruments to the rest of the world.' Drum Journey of David Johannes
Peyman Nasehpour, tonbak, ghaval and daf player, tabla researcher
and the oldest child of maestro Nasrollah Nasehpoor (vocalist and master of radif repertoire of Persian art music), was born in Tehran,
Iran, 1974.
In his family he was acquainted with Azerbaijani and Persian art music. After finishing
the Child Music Course with Mohammad Reza Darvishi (researcher of Persian regional music), he started learning
tonbak at the early age of nine. He was very fortunate to be able to receive his training in tonbak (Persian goblet drum)
with the late maestro Nasser Farhangfar, in ghaval (Azerbaijani frame drum) with maestro Latif Tahmasebi-zadeh, in daf (Kurdish frame drum) withthe late maestro Mirza Agha Ghosi and in theoretical old Persian music (Ta'lif-e-Negham & Igha') with Prof. Seyyed Abdollah Anwar.
He has been researching the Indian tabla since 1997.
He has received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in pure mathematics in 1997 and
1999. In the second State Student Scientific Olympiad held in 1997, among 2836 participants, he has stood in 12th place
in the field of mathematics. He is an advanced student of philosophy (Wittgenstein's works on philosophy of ordinary language).
These cultural streams have combined with his academic mathematical studies and careful
thought to create a very good drummer.
He began his musical career as a soloist, an accompanist and a teacher when he was
17. He is proud of sharing the performances with his father and brothers as well as the other great musicians such as maestro
Habil Aliev (Azerbaijani kamancheh), maestro Mohammad Reza Lotfi (Persian tar, setar, kamancheh
and radif), maestro Hassan Nahid (ney), Massoud Shaari (setar), Majid Derakhshani
(tar) and maestro Peter Giger (Jazz drummer).