Siamak Aghaei

Siāmak Aghāei (Persian: سیامک آقایی) is an Iranian composer and Santur player. He was born in Ahwaz, Iran, in 1973. At the age of eight he began his musical studies on the “Santur” in “The Organization of Preservation and Publication of Iranian Traditional Music”. Siamak has studied and play Santur with Iran’s most imminent “Santur” players, such as Parviz Meshkatian and Masood Shenasa. He continued his studies of Persian classical repertoire (the Radif) with number of renowned masters such as Mohammad Reza Lotfi and Majid Kiani, two well-known interpreters of the "Radif". He received a degree in music from University of Tehran and resides in Tehran where he is active as a teacher in his school of Iranian Santur and also teaches the "Persian classical repertoire (Radif)" and "the basic of Iranian music" in the university of Tehran. Some of his recent commissions, which includes traditional Persian works and written for YoYo Ma's Silk Road Project such as "Where The Wind Will Take Us", with whom he performed and recorded in 2008, "Atlas Ensemble" with Ed Spanjard and "Labyrinth Festival" with Ross Daly in Europe, "Oriental Ensemble" with Naseer Shamma in Arabian Countries is promising to bring Persian classical music to a wider international audience. He also founded SanturNavazan Ensemble in 2000, a unique ensemble of new designed Santurs adapted to achieve a new color through the contemporary music of Iran. He also founded the other ensemble "Goosheh Ensemble" in 2008 and performed many concerts with vocalist Salar Aghili. Siamak Aghaei has been one of the most active performer through the Iranian musician since 2000. Offical Website: http://www.siamakaghaei.com/. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.