Meghdad Shahhosseini
Composer and tanbur player
b. 1979/80Meghdad Shahhosseini (1979, Tehran)
He began his artistic activity in 1990 by learning the tombak (a goblet drum) and the setar (a small long-necked Persian lute), and in 1995 he went on to study singing with Master Afsaneh Rasaei. At the same time he learned the tar (a long-necked Persian lute) with the late Master Houshang Zarif, and in 1999 he entered the Faculty of Art and Architecture to study music, learning Western and Eastern music theory, harmony, counterpoint and more from teachers such as Farhad Fakhreddini, Kambiz Roshanravan, Mostafa Kamal Pourtorab, Farid Omran, Hooman Asadi, Dariush Talai, Majid Kiani, Dariush Pirniakan and others.
In 2001 he learned the radif of Taherzadeh (the radif being the core repertoire of Iran’s classical, dastgah-based music) with the late Master Razavi Sarvestani, and afterwards some old songs with the late Master Hassan Salek Esfahani. From 2001 he also studied the tanbur, a ritual instrument, benefiting from some of its masters, such as the late Taher Yarveysi and others.
Among the works in which he has taken part are films and series such as Rastegaran (“The Redeemed”), Bidarbash (“Wake-Up Call”), Dudkesh (“The Chimney”), Paytakht (“The Capital”) and Paridokht, as well as the vocals for the title song of the series Ruz-e Hasrat (“Day of Regret”) and others, all with music by Arya Aziminejad; the documentary Baz Ay (“Come Back”), made for the Year of Rumi; and the album Az Zabur-e Tanhayi (“From the Psalms of Solitude”) by Seyed Ali Jaberi.
His other works as a composer include musical idents for the channels Al-Kawthar, Press TV, Channel 2, Shoma, iFilm, Channel 5 and others, as well as the scores for the films Bur (Soran Ghaneifar) and Ruberu-ye Aftab (“Facing the Sun”), the series Fasli Digar (“Another Season”), the documentaries Royan (Meysam Shahhosseini), Gonbad-e Giti (“The Dome of the World”, Mahmoud Nazeri) and Khaterat-e Khaneh-ye Matruk (“Memories of the Abandoned House”, Mehdi Farsi), and the short films Atash-e Khodi (“Friendly Fire”, Behnam Alizadeh) and Chavi Nan (Khaled Farajzadeh), among others.
