Tasnif Boodan Va Soroodan by Majid Derakhshani

Majid Derakhshani is an Iranian musician and composer. Majid Derakhshani (born on the 22nd of September 1335 in Sangsar) is a composer, arranger and musician of tar and setar. He was born into a family of artists from the Iranian province Semnan, Sangesar. Subsequent to his emigration to Germany he founded the Nawa Musikzentrum in Cologne; the primary and most active center for Persian classical music outside of Iran. Derakhshani was one of Mohammad Reza Lotfi’s students and early members of the Sheida group. In 2005, after 21 years, he returned to Iran and founded the Khorshid group and performed 15 concerts with this group in Tehran, other cities, China and France. In the summer of 2007, he performed with his band and two groups from Tajikistan and Afghanistan on the occasion of Rumi’s 800th birthday at UNESCO in Paris.