Mohammad Reza Azadehfar

Mohammad Reza Azadehfar (Persian: محمدرضا آزاده‌فر), professor in ethnomusicology and santūr performer, was born in 1969 in Isfahan, the Safavid capital of Iran.

He started learning the Iranian traditional dulcimer (santūr) under the supervision of Sa’id Na’imimanesh in 1981 and spent some 4 years at the Conservatory of Isfahan.

[1] In 1988 he moved to Tehran and attended classes in the santūr given by Faramarz Payvar and Sa’id Sabet.

He began his studies by attending an MA research program in Tehran working on the topic of “General Training in Iranian Music.”[2] His dissertation was later published as a book in the Persian language and sold more than 5000 copies.

[6] During this time he established the Ethnomusicology program in this faculty and spent some years teaching there.