But also, I was performing with Shamss Ensemble professionally, playing tombak and Persian percussion, and I was basically touring with them around the world. So I had these two sides of music ...

Students sang classical Persian tunes or played Persian instruments, such as the tombak, a type of percussion instrument, and the setar, a guitar-like instrument, before the ensemble disbanded in ...

Hamin lives in Vancouver, BC where he is actively teaching and performing Persian and Middle Eastern hand drums. He performs with a special tuning-tombak designed by Hossein Omoumi.

Galeet intertwined her voice with his, added everything from Persian tombak (a goblet-shaped, handheld drum) to a multi-stringed santur, a violin and a modern drum set, all played immaculately by ...

Esmaili has composed many tombak pieces adopted from the melodies of Iranian music and has performed these pieces on several occasions in Tehran's Rudaki Hall, always gaining a very warm reception.

He began studying tombak, the central drum in traditional Persian music, with master musicians Assadollah Hejazi and Bahman Rajabi, and later taught himself to play the daf, the sacred frame drum.

Rabab and daf virtuoso Bijan Kamkar and Kurdish sorna player Ali-Akbar Bahari were other artists hailed as Living Human Treasures. Earlier in January 2018, Persian music instrument maker Ebrahim ...