Bahram Khani

Bahram Khani (born 1966/67 in Tehran) is a composer and player of the tanbur and other plucked string instruments, and a music graduate of the University of Tehran. He began his musical life with the tanbur and was one of the tanbur players of the Baba Taher ensemble.

Training

• Tanbur: from the age of 17 with Seyed Faramarz Ranaei.

• Tar and the radif of Persian music: seven years with Houshang Zarif.

• The radif of Mirza Abdollah: with Hossein Alizadeh.

• Music theory and solfège: with Mohammad-Reza Darvishi.

• Composition: with Farhad Fakhreddini.

• Vocal radif: with Bahram Bajelan.

He also studied with Mehrdad Delnavaz. As a player he follows the style of Jalil Shahnaz.

Ensembles and albums

• Baba Taher ensemble, alongside Seyed Khalil Alinejad: tanbur on both albums, Sana-ye Ali and Ayin-e Mastan.

• Bidel ensemble, with Hesameddin Seraj and Ramin Kakavand: albums including Buy-e Behesht, Roya-ye Vasl, Eshgh o Masti, Ruzi Ruzegari and Qesse-ye Gisu.

• The Grand Plucked-String Orchestra conducted by Hossein Dehlavi.

• Avaye Mehrabani ensemble led by Soheila Pourgerami.

Works

• The album Masiha, composed and arranged by him and sung by Hesameddin Seraj — a religious work about a woman of heavenly rank and her mission as a mother.

• The album Vasl-e Parvaneh, one of his latest works.

• A solo album.

Theatre music

• Rostam and Sohrab, directed by Pari Saberi

• Rend-e Khalvat-neshin, directed by Pari Saberi

• Maqam-e Asheqi, directed by Mohammad Hatami

Teaching and performing

Khani has taught tar, setar and tanbur for about twenty years and has given many concerts in Iran and abroad.

Source: his profile on tanbur-music.ir.