Jean During

Jean During (born 1947) is a French musician and ethnomusicologist specialising in music from the nations of the East especially Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.

[1][2] A commentator on the Middle Eastern and South Asian cultures, he is the Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research and a professor at the University of Strasbourg.

He began studying guitar at the age of 13, and by the age of 17, he was teaching Western classical guitar at the Toulouse National Conservatory and performing solo and with chamber orchestras.

He left France after receiving a master's degree in philosophy to study Iranian music and eventually settled in Iran.

He returned to France after the Iranian Revolution and enrolled in the French Center for Scientific Research.