Asieh Ahmadi

Asieh Ahmadi is a player of the tanbur, daf and dayereh and a composer. According to the English Wikipedia she was born in Tehran on 5 June 1983, has been active in music since 2000, has been a member of the Hannaneh and Toranj ensembles, and has recorded with artists such as Abdolhossein Mokhtabad, Naser Razazi, Pari Zanganeh and Simin Ghanem. The daf player Sara Ahmadi is her sister.

She is the composer and leader of the Zhuran ensemble and has arranged many of her pieces herself, playing tanbur, daf, kuzeh and bendir on them, among them “Shabnam”, “Niaz”, “Boshra” (broadcast, according to the channel, on the programme “Rasadkhaneh Ava Star”), “Neshan-e Eshgh”, “Najva”, “Ariel” (dedicated to working children), “Shmuel”, “Irana”, “Aghaz-e Parvaz”, “Shogh-e Baran” and “Labkhand-e Bahar”. On “Shogh-e Baran” she is joined by Morteza Fathi (kamancheh) and her sisters Sara (daf), Bita (kuzeh), Mona (bendir) and Mina Ahmadi (bass tar). She teaches group classes in daf and tanbur, and since 2021 the channel “Navaye Tanbur” has posted her tanbur solos and improvisations.

Source: Telegram channel “Navaye Tanbur”, December 2019 to October 2026; English Wikipedia (Asieh Ahmadi). Photo from one of her solo videos on the channel.