This Persian Santur player is based in London and is an award winning music scientist and santurist available for weddings and concert bookings.

He developed a unique performance style and an innovative tuning system to play a multi-ethnic repertoire on the Iranian santur (Hammered Dulcimer), and developed computer algorithms for the analysis of Persian musical signals.

He studied with grand masters of Persian and Kurdish music including Mojtaba Mirzadeh, and Pashang Kamkar and teaches the santur, the daf and music technology at London Universities.

This Persian Santur player has performed over 1000 concerts and has toured the world with his multi-ethnic programme, performing Persian, Kurdish, Greek, Armenian, Turkish, English, Scottish, and Irish music.

He was highly commended at SSMS 2007 for Analysis and Classification of Persian Musical Modes, and his performance with audience participation won the first prize in the European Electronic music contest, AudioMostly 2017. In 2019 he received The Most Successful Kurd in the UK art award in UK parliament. He was featured for his multi-ethnic programme on BBC Radio 3 [2021].

This Persian Santur player has over 20 publications and also makes music for films and Radio and TV channels. Peyman has been researching the possibilities of pushing the boundaries of the Persian and Kurdish music and the santur performance.

He also plays Armenian, Greek and Celtic music.

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