Firooz Yousefi
Documentary maker and music teacher (Farhad Moradi)
Firooz Yousefi (Farhad Moradi) is a music teacher and the maker of documentaries on the music of Kermanshah and Kurdish music. His four-part documentary “The Yarsan Tanbur from the Perspective of Guran”, made with Dayrak Soltani, looks at the tanbur in poetry and historical sources, the accounts of its masters, its maqams, the areas where it is played and the lives of its teachers in the Guran region. His series “Kermashan, Source of Art and Artists”, made with Dayrak Soltani and Musa Babakhani, was broadcast on Tishk TV’s “Bisotun” programme; one episode is a biography of Ostad Ali Akbar Moradi. He has also published recordings of Yarsan elders singing kalam and playing tanbur, and of the Khavandkar feast.
Source: the video descriptions on his YouTube channel (@firoozyosofi7541).
Videos
- Biography of Ostad Ali Akbar Moradi – part 1Speaker
- Biography of Ostad Ali Akbar Moradi – part 2Speaker
- Biography of Ostad Ali Akbar Moradi – part 3Speaker
- Biography of Ostad Ali Akbar Moradi – part 4Speaker
- Biography of Ostad Ali Akbar Moradi – short versionSpeaker
- Firooz Yousefi interviewed on the Bisotun programme (Tishk TV)Speaker
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- Kurdish music 1 – Firooz YousefiSpeaker
- Kurdish vocal genres – Firooz YousefiSpeaker
- Tanbur makers in the Guran region – Ali Akbar Moradi biography, part 5Speaker
- The Yarsan Khavandkar feast 2013 – part 1Speaker
- The Yarsan Khavandkar feast 2013 – part 2Speaker
- The Yarsan Tanbur from the Perspective of Guran – part 1Speaker
- The Yarsan Tanbur from the Perspective of Guran – part 10Speaker
- The Yarsan Tanbur from the Perspective of Guran – part 2Speaker
- The Yarsan Tanbur from the Perspective of Guran – part 3Speaker
- The Yarsan Tanbur from the Perspective of Guran – part 4Speaker
- The Yarsan Tanbur from the Perspective of Guran – part 5Speaker
- The Yarsan Tanbur from the Perspective of Guran – part 6Speaker
- The Yarsan Tanbur from the Perspective of Guran – part 7Speaker
- The Yarsan Tanbur from the Perspective of Guran – part 8Speaker
- The Yarsan Tanbur from the Perspective of Guran – part 9Speaker