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Dr. Peyman Nasehpour

Dr. Peyman Nasehpour is an Iranian hand drummer and mathematician.

About Me

Dr. Peyman Nasehpour, tonbak, ghaval and daf player, tabla researcher, having Ph.D. in mathematics and the oldest child of maestro Nasrollah Nasehpoor (vocalist and master of radif repertoire of Persian art music), was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1974.

In his family, he was acquainted with Azerbaijani and Persian art music. After finishing the Child Music Course with Mr. Mohammad Reza Darvishi (researcher of Persian regional music), started learning tonbak at the early age of nine. He was very fortunate to be able to receive his training in tonbak (Persian goblet drum) with the late maestro Nasser Farhangfar, in ghaval (Azerbaijani frame drum) with maestro Latif Tahmasebi-zadeh, in daf (Kurdish frame drum) with maestro Mirza Agha Ghosi and in theoretical old Persian music (Ta'lif-e-Negham & Igha') with Prof. Seyyed Abdollah Anwar.

He has been researching the Indian tabla since 1997.

He received his Bachelor of Science's Degree in pure mathematics in 1997 at the Mathematics Department of Shahid Beheshti University. In the second State Student Scientific Olympiad held in 1997, among 2836 participants, he stood in 12th place in the field of mathematics. In 1999, he obtained his Master of Science's Degree in commutative algebra branch of pure mathematics at the Mathematics Department of the University of Tehran. His first academic paper, on M-cancellation ideals, was published in 2000.

Parallel to his academic studies in Iranian universities, from 1993 till 2004, he also worked on formal logic, Wittgenstein's philosophy of ordinary languages, and theoretical old Persian music with Professor Abdollah Anwar in Tehran, Iran.

Then in March 2006, Peyman moved to Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain to continue his academic studies in formal languages, a branch of theoretical computer science in the Research Group in Mathematical Linguistics at Rovira i Virgili University, but after passing the first semester, he moved to Germany to do his Ph.D. in pure mathematics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Winfried Bruns (mathematician and author of some famous books in algebra) and defended his Ph.D. thesis on Jan 27th, 2011. Currently, he teaches mathematics and music at Iranian universities in Tehran.

These cultural streams have combined with his academic mathematical studies and careful thought to create a very good drummer.

He began his musical career as a soloist, an accompanist, and a teacher when he was 17. He is proud of sharing the performances with his father and brothers as well as the other great musicians such as maestro Habil Aliev (Azerbaijani kamancheh), maestro Mohammad Reza Lotfi (Persian tar, setar, kamancheh, and radif), maestro Hassan Nahid (ney), Massoud Shaari (setar), Majid Derakhshani (tar), maestro Peter Giger (Jazz drummer), Elshan Mansurov (Azerbaijani kamancheh), Gitti Khosravi (opera singer) and Gevorg Dabaghyan (duduk).