PEYMAN AND HIS TONBAK

TONBAK, GHAVAL, DAF PLAYER : PEYMAN NASEHPOUR

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Peyman and his tonbak
Peyman and his tonbak

Biography and Photos of Peyman Nasehpour
Iranian/Persian percussionist of Nassehpoor Ensemble
Tonbak, Ghaval & Daf Player

'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 Mr. 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) with 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).

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Peyman's blog in Persian

Peyman Nasehpour's biography in Persian

Mathematical Autobiography and Interests

Biographie von Peyman Nasehpour auf Deutsch

A Brief History of Tonbak (Zarb)

Persian Music: Tar and Tonbak

Tar Setar Barbat Kamancheh Gheychak Santoor Ghanoon Ney Tonbak Daf