Classical/Traditional Persian

• Abolhasan Saba
  Abolhasan Saba
  Abol Hasan Sabā , was a renowned Iranian musician, composer, violinist, and setar player.-Biography:He was born in Tehran to Abul Qasim Khan Kamal ol-Saltaneh, son of Mohammad Jafar Khan Sadr ol-Hekma, son of Mahmud Khan Kashi Malak ol-Shoara Sadr ol-Shoara Saba ol-Shoara, son of Mohammad Hossain...
  
  
• Ali-Naqi Vaziri
  Ali-Naqi Vaziri
  Ali-Naqi Vaziri was a musicologist, composer, a celebrated player of the tar, and the founder of the Academy of Music of Iran as well of Iran's National Orchestra....
  
  
• Ali Tajvidi
  Ali Tajvidi
  Ali Tajvidi , was a Persian musician, composer, violinist, songwriter, and music professor at the School of National Music and Tehran University...
  
  
• Faramarz Payvar
  Faramarz Payvar
  Master Farāmarz Pāyvar was an Iranian composer and santur player. Payvar died on December 9, 2009 after a long struggle with brain damage.-Works:...
  
  
• Hamid Motebassem
  Hamid Motebassem
  Hamid Motebassem is a renowned Iranian musician and tar and setar player.His first teacher was his father. Later he started to study with musicians like Mohammad Reza Lotfi, Hossein Alizadeh and Hushang Zarif. In 1991 Motebassem founded Dastan ensemble which is one of the outstanding ensembles...
  
  
• Hossein Alizadeh
  Hossein Alizadeh
  Hossein Alizadeh , is an Iranian composer, radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and tar and setar instrumentalist and improviser, described by Allmusic as a leading Iranian classical composer and musician....
  
  
• Hossein Dehlavi
  Hossein Dehlavi
  - Biography :He was born in 1927 in Tehran and studied composition at the Tehran Conservatory of Music with Hossein Nassehi. He studied Persian music with Abolhassan Saba and, from 1957 to 1967, was the principal conductor of the Persian Fine Arts Administration Orchestra.For ten years, Dehlavi was...
  
  
• Jalal Zolfonoun
• Mahmoud Zoufonoun
  Mahmoud Zoufonoun
  Ostad Mahmoud Zoufonoun is an accomplished musician in the art of Persian traditional music.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Mohammad Baharloo
• Mohammad Reza Lotfi
• Mohammad Reza Shajarian
  Mohammad Reza Shajarian
  Mohammad-Reza Shajarian is an internationally and critically acclaimed Persian traditional singer, composer and ostad of Persian music...
  
  
• Saeed Farajpouri
  Saeed Farajpouri
  Saeed Farajpouri is an Iranian kamancheh player of Kurdish descent. He is also a prolific Persian music composer and a lecturer at School of Music, Tehran University....
  
  
• Moshir Humayoun Habibollah Shahrdar

Contemporary/Symphonic Persian

• Ahmad Pejman
  Ahmad Pejman
  Ahmad Pejman , also spelled as Ahmad Pezhman, is an Iranian classical composer who resides in the United States.-Biography:Born in 1937 in Lar, Iran, Pejman was exposed to the sounds and rhythms of southern Iran from early childhood...
  
  
• Ali Rahbari
  Ali Rahbari
  Ali Rahbari is a Persian composer and conductor, who played with more than 120 European orchestras including Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...
  
  
• Alireza Mashayekhi
  Alireza Mashayekhi
  Alireza Mashayekhi is a notable Iranian musician, composer and conductor. He is one of the first Iranian composers who has pioneered Persian Symphonic Music.-Early life:...
  
  
• Behzad Ranjbaran
  Behzad Ranjbaran
  Behzad Ranjbaran is a leading Persian composer.Ranjbaran was born and raised in Iran. He entered the Tehran Conservatory at the age of 9. Ranjbaran continued his study of composition at Indiana University...
  
  
• Fariborz Lachini
  Fariborz Lachini
  Fariborz Lachini is a film score composer originally from Iran based in Canada.-Career:He started his career in Iran writing music for children, creating "Avaz Faslha va Rangha" at the age of 18 which caught the attention of royal family of the time. The title of national Iranian TV's children...
  
  
• Heshmat Sanjari
  Heshmat Sanjari
  Heshmat Sanjari was a well-known Persian conductor and composer, the son of Hossein Sanjari who was well-known player on tar in Persia.- Education :...
  
  
• Hormoz Farhat
  Hormoz Farhat
  Hormoz Farhat Born 1929 Tehran, is a significant Iranian composer, ethnomusicologist and University lecturer.- Musical career :...
  
  
• Hosein Alizadeh
• Javad Maroufi
• Mehdi Hosseini
  Mehdi Hosseini
  Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Bami is a contemporary Persian composer and Musicologist.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mohammad Shams
  Mohammad Shams
  Mohammad Shams is an Iranian composer and conductor. Born in a family of musicians, he has composed more than 650 pieces of traditional, classical and modern music....
  
  
• Morteza Hannaneh
  Morteza Hannaneh
  Morteza Hannaneh ‎ was a well-known Persian composer and horn player.- Musical career :...
  
  
• Nader Mashayekhi
  Nader Mashayekhi
  Nader Mashayekhi is a Persian composer.Since 2006 until July 2007 he was conductor of Tehran Symphony Orchestra.In 1990s he was music director of an Austrian new music ensemble named "Wien 2001"....
  
  
• Kiawasch Sahebnassagh
  Kiawasch Sahebnassagh
  Kiawasch Sahebnassagh is Iranian music composer, researcher and pianist.He studied the Piano with A. Haraturian, F. Behboud & H. Shahsa and the Music Theory with S. Lotfi, M. Darvishi, M. Rohani and A. Mashayekhi. He began composing at the age of 18. Since 1994, Kiawasch has been enrolled,...
  
  
• Peyman Yazdanian
  Peyman Yazdanian
  Peyman Yazdanian is a famous and awarded Iranian pianist and music composer. As a composer, he has written over forty pieces for solo piano and has composed a lot for national and foreign featured films. He has also written original soundtracks for plays and multimedia. He has introduced a new...
  
  
• Reza Vali
  Reza vali
  Reza Vali is an Iranian musician and composer.Reza Vali was born in Iran and studied at the Tehran Conservatory. In 1972, he attended the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, where he studied composition. He later attended the University of Pittsburgh where he received his PhD in...
  
  

Western Classical

• Ali Rahbari
  Ali Rahbari
  Ali Rahbari is a Persian composer and conductor, who played with more than 120 European orchestras including Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...
  
  
• Aminollah Hossein
  Aminollah Hossein
  André Hossein, born Aminoullah Husseinoff was a celebrated Iranian composer of Neo-Romantic music and a tar soloist residing in France....
  
  
• Anoushiravan Rohani
  Anoushiravan Rohani
  Anoushirvan Rohani also spelled Anooshiravan Rowhani is an Iranian pianist and songwriter.Born in Rasht, Iran in 1939, Anoushiravan received music lessons from his father Reza Rohani, himself a poet and violinist...
  
  
• Behzad Ranjbaran
  Behzad Ranjbaran
  Behzad Ranjbaran is a leading Persian composer.Ranjbaran was born and raised in Iran. He entered the Tehran Conservatory at the age of 9. Ranjbaran continued his study of composition at Indiana University...
  
  
• Fereidoun Farzaneh
  Fereidoun Farzaneh
  Fereidoun Farzaneh was an Iranian composer of Western classical music. He was the son of Ismail Farzaneh and Fatemeh Sheikh....
  
  
• Heshmat Sanjari
  Heshmat Sanjari
  Heshmat Sanjari was a well-known Persian conductor and composer, the son of Hossein Sanjari who was well-known player on tar in Persia.- Education :...
  
  
• Hormoz Farhat
  Hormoz Farhat
  Hormoz Farhat Born 1929 Tehran, is a significant Iranian composer, ethnomusicologist and University lecturer.- Musical career :...
  
  
• Hossein Hadisi
• Lily Afshar
  Lily Afshar
  - Awards and recognition :Afshar has been praised for her performances.She won the 2000 Orville H. Gibson Award for Best Female Classical Guitarist. as well as the Tenth, Eleventh, and the Twelfth Annual "Premier Guitarist" awards by the Memphis Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts &...
  
  
• Loris Tjeknavorian
  Loris Tjeknavorian
  Loris Tjeknavorian is a contemporary Iranian-Armenian composer and conductor...
  
  
• Nader Mashayekhi
  Nader Mashayekhi
  Nader Mashayekhi is a Persian composer.Since 2006 until July 2007 he was conductor of Tehran Symphony Orchestra.In 1990s he was music director of an Austrian new music ensemble named "Wien 2001"....
  
  
• Kiawasch SahebNassagh
  Kiawasch Sahebnassagh
  Kiawasch Sahebnassagh is Iranian music composer, researcher and pianist.He studied the Piano with A. Haraturian, F. Behboud & H. Shahsa and the Music Theory with S. Lotfi, M. Darvishi, M. Rohani and A. Mashayekhi. He began composing at the age of 18. Since 1994, Kiawasch has been enrolled,...
  
  
• Mehdi Hosseini
  Mehdi Hosseini
  Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Bami is a contemporary Persian composer and Musicologist.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mohammad Baharloo
• Shahrdad Rohani