The music of Iran encompasses music that is produced by Iranian artists. In addition to the traditional folk and classical genres, it also includes pop and internationally celebrated styles such as jazz, rock, and hip hop.
Persian traditional music or Iranian traditional music, also known as Persian classical music or Iranian classical music, refers to the classical music of Iran. It consists of characteristics developed through the country's classical, medieval, and contemporary eras. It also influenced areas and regions that are considered part of Greater Iran.
Hossein Alizadeh (1951-) is an Iranian musician, composer, radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and tar, shurangiz and setar instrumentalist and improviser. He has performed with such musicians as Shahram Nazeri, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Alireza Eftekhari and Jivan Gasparyan, as well as with a number of orchestras and ensembles.
Amy X Neuburg is an American composer, vocalist, and electronic musician.
The Kamkars is a Kurdish Iran musical family group of seven brothers and a sister, all from the city of Sanandaj, the capital of the Kurdistan province of Iran.
Ostad (“Master”) Mahmoud Zoufonoun was an Iranian-born American musician accomplished in the art of Persian traditional music.
Jalaal Zulfonun was an Iranian musician, setaar player, and a prominent composer and teacher of Persian music.
Mohammad-Reza Lotfi was an Iranian classical musician renowned for his mastery of the tar and setar. He collaborated with singers such as Mohammad-Rezā Shajarian, Hengameh Akhavan, Shahram Nazeri and Alireza Shahmohammadi.
Behzad Ranjbaran is a Persian composer, known for his virtuosic concertos and colorful orchestral music. Ranjbaran's music draws from his cultural roots, incorporating Persian musical modes and rhythms.
Omid Lotfi Kamkar is a setar and daf player. He is a classical Persian ensemble musician and he tours the world with The Kamkars, an Iranian Kurdish group composed of Omid, his seven uncles, and his mother. He has also toured with his musician father, Mohammad Reza Lotfi.
Abdolhossein Mokhtabad is an Iranian singer and composer of Persian traditional music. He is a Gold Medal Winner of Global Music Awards in 2020 and Silver Medal Winner in 2022.
Daryoush Pirniakan is an Iranian musician, tar and setar player, and music researcher.
Richard Festinger is an American composer of contemporary classical music, pianist and educator.
Derrick Skye is a composer, conductor, musician, and educator based in the Los Angeles area who often integrates musical practices from cultures around the world in his works. The Los Angeles Times has described Skye's music as "something to savor" and "enormous fun to listen to." The Times (London) described Skye’s music as “deliciously head-spinning.”
Shahin Shahbazi is an Iranian composer, musician and poet. He is mostly renowned for his mastery of the tar and setar and his composition of the complete Radif works of maestro Ali Akbar Shahnazi with his band Nafir ensemble.
Elena Ruehr is an American musician, music educator and composer.
Amir Nojan is a Persian traditional Setar player. He started studying the traditional Persian music at the age of twelve with various masters. Some of his eminent teachers were Ustad Dariush Talai, Ustad Jalal Zolfonoon and Ustad MohammadReza Lotfi.
Shahriyar Jamshidi is a Kurdish-Canadian Kamancheh player and composer. His focus is mainly on Kurdish music.
David Ross Garner is an American composer of opera and vocal, instrumental, and chamber music. He is also an educator, on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Ali Radman is an Iranian musician, composer, conductor, pedagogue and pianist.