About Me
Pedram Khavar-Zamini was born in 1975, in Teheran, Iran. He learned to play the Tombak alongside to tombak Masters Kamyar Mohabbat and Bahman Rajabi.Talented student, he will perform in public with Bahman Rajabi, duet for Tombak, and will help him to write "Rajabi..s second method book for Tombak".In 1999, in collaboration with Hamid Ghambary, he edited a book on collection of works by Amir Nasser Eftetah, one of Iran..s most famous Tombak masters.Pedram has founded his own percussion tombak group, named “Varashanâ€. He has also composed and released his first work for group tombak, named “Koutah†with the percussionist Hamid Ghambary, produced in Iran and Europe (www.aerakis.net).(Video 1: MASTER BAHMAN RAJABI & PEDRAM, TEHRAN.)In 2002, he performed some concerts in duet with Kayhan Kalhor, in Germany, and with Kayhan Kalhor, Georgi Petrov, Ross Daly for the “Bowed Instrument Festivalâ€.
After meeting Ross Daly in Germany, Pedram decided to leave Iran and join Ross in Greece. He has recorded “Iris†with and under the direction of Ross Daly. This album is the meeting point of the most popular artists of Persian and Indian music: Pedram Khavar-Zamini, Dhruba Ghosh, Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, Hamid Khabazi, along with the Greek virtuosos Vasilis Rakopoulos, Kelli Thoma, Giorgis Xylouris.(Video 2: SOLO TOMBAK IN GERMANY)Pedram has also become a member of the “Labyrinth†group, directed by Ross Daly. He meets and plays with very talented Greek musicians such as Stelios Petrakis, Vassilis Stavrakakis, Giorgos Xylouris, Kelly Thoma… and also with some of the most interesting musicians from all over the world, such as Habil Aliev, Mohamad Rahim Khushnawaz, Dariush Talai, Ballake Sissoko, Zohar Fresco, Ellika Frisell, Dhruba Gosh, Khaled and Hossein Arman, Siamak Aghaie,… always finding a way to bring his instrument to every kind of music.
He has also recorded Cd..s with great musicians such as Habil Aliev or Mitsos Stavrakakis.(Video 3: ROSS DALY, KELLY THOMA & PEDRAM)I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4