Sadjad Pourghanad

Sadjad Pourghanad (Persian: سجاد پورقناد; born 22 December 1981) is a Tar and Setar player, opera singer, Iranian journalist, founder of the Iranian Festival of Music-based Weblogs and Websites, and editor-in-chief of Harmony Talk, the online Persian journal on music.

His later instructors were masters including Hossein Dehlavi, Manouchehr Sahbaie, Keyvan Mirhadi, Mohammad Saeed Sharifian, Shapour Rahimi, Ali Nourbakhsh, Mohammad Saeed Sharifian, Florence Lippett and Khosro Elmiyeh.

In 2007, Sadjad Pourghanad and Reza Zarei organized a conference in Shiraz, with the collaboration of Harmony Talk Journal, in which online music activists participated.

Finally, this summit led to the establishment of the Iranian Festival of Music-based Weblogs and Websites which was held for the first time on July 8, 2011, in Tehran under the secretary of Pourghanad.

[5] Sadjad Pourghanad won the first prize as the Setar player in the National Music Competition of Tehran Municipality in 2007.