Hazhir Mehrafrouz
Hazhir Mehrafrouz (هژیر مهرافروز) is an Iranian singer, composer and improviser.
Hazhir was born in 1978 in Kermanshah, Iran in a family appreciative and sorounded of music, culture and mysticism. At a very young age, he started learning Persian traditional music under his father’s supervision and inspirations. At the age of five, he was able to play the Tanbur well to accompany his father. At the age of 11, he studied and learnt Persian teditional radif from Master Mahmud Karimi and simultaneously, he started to learn and play the setar  and tar under the supervision of his parental uncle Seyed Khalil Alinezhad. Later, He attended radif lessons under the tutorship of Master Reza Vohdani.

At the age of 17, he began his research on Kurdish music and due to his love for music, he learnt to play the Divan (Saz) masterfully. Afterwards, he learnt to play the guitar and piano and he established a musical group called Ayaan. He successfully managed to create a new music genre called Talfighi music by using a fusion of traditional Iranian music instruments (tar, setar, tandur) with modern instruments such as guitar, saxophone and drums. He has also given numerous successful concerts in Iran, Turkey and Switzerland. Gome-be-haj-rafte is one of Hazhir’s famous song.

Tar , Setar , Tanbour , Ud  Player & Vocalist . Iran-Tehran

Bahar Movahed is a board certified orthodontist, cartoonist, and Persian classical vocalist. Bahar was raised in an environment which harmonized art and science. Her father is a nationally recognized surgeon and her mother is a well-known artist in Iran. In 2010, Bahar immigrated to the United States to further her education and pursue professional opportunities. Since women in Iran are only allowed to perform and produce music as “co-singing” vocalists to mask their own voice, Bahar was eager to present her art in the US as a solo vocalist. In 2012, She released her debut album in collaboration with Maestro Ali Akbar Moradi, a well-known Iranian-Kurdish tanbour virtuoso. This album “Goblet of Eternal Light” was published by Traditional Crossroads and US media deemed it “one of the most hauntingly beautiful albums of the year in any style of music”. To date, Bahar has held multiple sold out concerts across the US.

Bahar was born in Tehran, Iran and started learning music as a young child first on the piano. Later on, she learned how to play the Tanbour through lessons with Maestro Seyed Amrollah Shah Ebrahimi. She quickly developed an interest for Kurdish lyrics and classical Persian vocal radifs. Simultaneously she learned to play Tar with Keyvan Saket and Mohamad Reza Ebrahimi and began intense vocal training in 1998 with the acclaimed classical Iranian singer Mrs. Parissa. During this period, Bahar was a dedicated dental student. While her educational requirements were substantial, she lovingly made time to continue her musical training. Bahar earned her DDS degree in Iran in 2003 from Tehran Azad School of Dentistry. While practicing as a dentist, she continued studying vocals with renowned Iranian vocalists Shahram Nazeri and Hamid Reza Noorbakhsh, and eventually the legendary Mohammad Reza Shajarian. In her free time, she taught at a number of music institutes and recorded her own music before she left Iran. Bahar continued her dental education in the US and earned her second DDS degree from the University of California, San Francisco. Soon after, she gained a specialty in Orthodontics and a MS in Kinesiology at the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health. Bahar is currently practicing orthodontics in Southern California. While her career as an orthodontist brings her joy, her endless passion for Persian classical singing cannot be quenched. Her well-rounded background has given her media recognition as a “Renaissance Woman.”

Foad Memariaan at the age of 18, started Narration classes with the Master teachers and has been active in the field of Narration Poetry (reciting).

In 2018, the recitations of Foad's poetry took on a more serious role, and he continued his activity with the recitation of one of Homayoun Shajarian's songs, "Khoob Shod".

Milad Mohammadi, Pouya Saraei, Amir Nojan, Diba Fazelnia, and Shayan Gorjidouz are among the musicians and composers of Foad Memariaan's works.

In 2020, he started training the traditional Iranian instrument of the tanbour with Hazhir Mehrafrouz, and in the meantime, he also earned from the lessons learned by  Dr.Pouya saraei and Melina Dolait (a student of Master Farshid Kakavand) and began to learn and practice improvisation of the tambour, and so far he has composed and released several improvisations works from his practice classes.

He entered a new stage of his artistic life with his fascination for the works of Maestro Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Khosrow Shakibaei, and Ahmad Shamlou as inspirations for his works, and in tanbour, Sohrab Pournazari, and Khalil AliNajad are his inspirations.

He is also a graphic designer.
The founder and former licensee of the chakaame art collection was transferred to other people in August 2022.

Now as a graphic artist, he offers his exclusive and limited works internationally through platforms and his official website. Memariaan.com

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