About Peyman
Born in Shiraz, Iran, Dr. Peyman Heydarian is an award winning music scientist and santurist. A computer scientist and a musicologist, 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 has also worked on an academic project on a content-based personal music recommender system
Peyman studied with grand masters of Persian and Kurdish music including Mojtaba Mirzadeh, and Pashang Kamkar. He currently teaches the santur, the daf and music technology courses at London Universities. He has performed over 1000 concerts worldwide, including regular concerts at SOAS, University of London, the birthplace of world music. Peyman has toured the world with his multi-ethnic programme “The Voice of Santur”, performing Persian, Kurdish, Greek, Armenian, Turkish, English, Scottish, and Irish music.
Peyman 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]: https://soundcloud.com/santurista/peyman-heydarian-shur-e-simin-in-bakhtiary-tx-06-06-2020
Peyman has over 20 publications, and an album “Felt-hammer improvisations”, a musical dialogue between Ian and the US. All available on his website. He also makes music for films and Radio and TV channels. Peyman has been researching the possibilities of pushing the boundaries of the Persian music and the santur performance.
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