Pejman Akbarzadeh

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Pejman Akbarzadeh
Pejman Akbarzadeh, The Hague, April 2007
Born	March 12, 1980 (1980-03-12) (age 28) Shiraz, Persia (Iran)

Pejman Akbarzadeh (Persian:پژمان اكبرزاده) is a Persian (Iranian) musician, researcher, journalist and radio producer.

1 Life
2 "Persian Musicians" project
3 Journalistic activities
4 Persian Gulf Studies
5 Immigration to the Netherlands
6 Bibliography
7 External links

[edit] Life

Born in Shiraz in 1980, he gave his first lessons of music at the age of 9. In 1999-2000 he did his military service in Kurdistan province and in 2001 moved to Tehran and continued his piano studies under Farman Behboud.

[edit] "Persian Musicians" project

At age fifteen he started to research the works and activities of twentieth-century Persian (Iranian) composers and conductors. Three years later he published the first volume of his projected four-volume work, Persian Musicians. The books have been reference of several publications such as Encyclopedia Iranica and cited as "honor of Persian musicological circles' in Iranian Musicology Quarterly. "Ketab-e Hafte" [Book of the Week] and Radio Farda interviewed him about this book. Currently he is working on the 3rd and 4th (final) volumes of this project.

[edit] Journalistic activities

Pejman Akbarzadeh has also published numerous articles in both Persian and English, mostly on cultural topics, which have been published in BBC Persian Service Online, "Persian Heritage Magazine" (New Jersey), "Shargh Newspaper" (Tehran), "Rahavard Quarterly" (Los Angeles), "Gooya.com" (Brussels), "Payvand.com" (San Francisco)... and Yas-e-no Daily which banned by Iran's regime in 2003.

[edit] Persian Gulf Studies

Pejman Akbarzadeh (L) and Prof. Ahmad Eghtedari (R). Persian Studies Foundation Conference, Hafez Hall, Shiraz, 2005.

Since 2002 to 2006 Pejman Akbarzadeh was the respresentative of Persian Gulf Online organization in Tehran. He has published various articles about this waterway and lectured at the Persian Studies Foundation conference in Shiraz and Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran.

He is now one of Persian Gulf Online's mambers in the Netherlands and a member of Iran Heritage Society, Iranian Musicology Group, Artists Without Frontiers and International Federation of Journalists.

[edit] Immigration to the Netherlands

In 2006, because of the restricted situation of musical life and freedom of speech in Iran, Pejman Akbarzadeh immigrated to the Netherlands. Currently he is the music director and producer at Radio Zamaneh in Amsterdam. In March 2008 for the first time in Amsterdam he gave a Persian piano recital at Bethanienklooster.

[edit] 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