Santur Player, Traditional & Folk Musician

A grand master of Persian and Kurdish music, he has studied with Mojtaba Mirzadeh and Pashang Kamkar. He has taught santur, daf, and music technology at London Universities. He has performed over 100 concerts and has toured the world with his multi-ethnic programme “The Voice of Santur”, performing Persian, Kurdish, Greek, Armenian, Turkish, English, Scottish, and Irish music.

‘In Praise of Fire’

He was highly commended at SSMS 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 from the UK Parliament. He was featured for his multi-ethnic programme on BBC Radio 3 [2021].

He has over 20 publications and an album called “Felt-hammer Improvisations.” He also makes music for films, radio, and TV channels. Peyman has been researching the possibility of pushing the boundaries of Persian and Kurdish music and the Santur performance.