Pejman Akbarzadeh
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Pejman Akbarzadeh (Persian پژمان اكبرزاده, born 1980) is a Persian (Iranian) musician and researcher and columnist of the popular reformist paper Shargh in Iran.
Born in Shiraz in 1980, he studied piano and qanun under Fahrman Beboud and Maileh Saeedi. At age fifteen he began compiling information on twentieth-century Persian (Iranian) composers and conductors and three years later published the first volume of his projected four-volume work, Persian Musicians. The books have been reference of several publications such as Encyclopedia Iranica. He has also published the second volume. He has published numerous articles in Persian and English which have been published in Persian Heritage Magazine (New Jersey), Shargh Newspaper (Tehran), Rahavard Quarterly (Los Angeles), Gooya.com (Brussels), Shahrvand (Toronto), Payvand.com (San Francisco)... and Yas-e Now Daily which banned by Iran's regime in 2003.
Pejman Akbaezadeh has been interviewed by the weekly literary magazine Ketab-e Hafte, the Iranian.com (which featured him in 2002 as their [Iranian of the day]). He is listed by Persian Gulf Organization as one of two "Research and Publication Members" and Representative in Persia (Iran).
Bibliography
- Persian Musicians Volume 1 (Moosighidanane Irani, Jelde 1). Navid Publications, Shiraz/Tehran, 2000.
- Persian Musicians Volume 2 (Moosighidanane Irani, Jelde 2). Roshanak Publications, Tehran, 2002, ISBN 964-93867-3-4
External links
- [Persian Gulf Taskforce]
- [Profile in Artists Without Frontiers]
- [Persian Art Music: Pejman Akbarzadeh]
- [Interview with Pejman Akbarzadeh]
- [Pejman's articles]
- Pejman Akbarzadeh. [A report on a new wave of Persian Gulf name abuse], Persian Heritage, Winter 2005.
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