Javad Azizi

Javad Azizi is a tanbur player and composer, born in 1974 in Sarpol-e Zahab, Kermanshah. He began learning the tanbur as a child with his brother and has officially worked with music ensembles in Kermanshah since 1989. He learned to play the tar (a long-necked Persian lute) with Arshad Tahmasbi and has drawn indirectly on the playing style of Hossein Alizadeh.