The reference for traditional and authentic Iranian music
The reference for traditional and authentic Iranian music
Ali-Akbar Moradi was born on March 6, 1958, in the village of Ban Zalan, near the town of Gahvareh in Dalahu County, Kermanshah Province, into a Kurdish Yarsani family.
Ali-Akbar Moradi perfected his art with prominent Tanbur masters such as Seyed Vali Hosseini, Seyed Mohammad Alavi, and other renowned masters of this instrument in Kermanshah, and by the age of thirty, he had learned to play all 72 Maqams of the Tanbur.
He began his professional artistic activity in 1971 with Tanbur solo performances at the Kermanshah Culture and Art Center, and in 1972, along with his artistic friends, Alghasi and Khademi, he formed the first Tanbur group in Kermanshah. Later, in 1980, the Shams Tanbur group was formed, and Ali-Akbar Moradi was one of its founding members. Since then, he has won significant awards from Iranian festivals.
In 1993, he continued his musical work independently and began collecting, learning, and recording ancient Tanbur Maqams. These Maqams (72 Maqams) were released years later by the House of World Cultures in Paris and then in Iran on four CDs, which led to Moradi’s nomination for a Grammy Award.
The works collected from this artist are on the Khosousi website as follows:
