About Me

I am a university graduate with a master’s degree in the fascinating field of ethnomusicology from the University of Art, Tehran (Faculty of Music). Besides playing Iranian classical music, I study music through the lens of ethnomusicology in its socio-cultural context and in relation to peoples who create it. For my master’s thesis, I carried out fieldwork in Turkic speaking regions of southwestern Iran (Shiraz, Firuzabad and Dasht-e-Arzhan) among the people of Qashqāi tribes in 2018 and 2019 and studied the correlation between music and folk dances in weddings, Including a type of women dance, called Dastmāl-bāzi, which is performed using a colorful small fabric. In addition to this primary line of research, I am passionate about how people manifest their identity through music.