The reference for traditional and authentic Iranian music
The reference for traditional and authentic Iranian music
Ali Asghar Shahzeydi (born 1948) is an Iranian singer and vocal instructor, a teacher of the Isfahan vocal school, and a student of Jalaluddin Taj Isfahani.
Biography and artistic activity
Ali Asghar Shahzeydi was born in Isfahan in 1948. He started learning Iranian music rows at the age of thirteen, and after 8 years, in 1970, he benefited from the teachings of Jalal-uddin Taj Isfahani in the field of vocals and was continuously taught by Jalal-uddin Taj for eleven years. He has also benefited from the style of Seyed Abdul Rahim Isfahani and the guidance of Seyed Mohammad Taherpour. Obtaining the first place in the field of singing in the second Barbad test in 1978, teaching singing at the Isfahan Music Conservatory and the Isfahan Voice and Image Music Unit, and teaching private singing so far indicate his extensive educational activities. One of his most famous works is the song “Jame Madhoshi” from the album “Charkh Gardoon” with music by Ali Tajvidi, Tar by Jalil Shahnaz, arrangement by Fereydoon Shahbazian and poetry by Bijan Taraghi. He has also performed many improvisational songs in the Tamashageh Raz program and Isfahan Radio.
In addition to singing, he is also interested in playing the Ney and writing poetry. Many of his songs have been recorded, for example, a song in Afshari with the opening “Everyone has a desire in their head and a job ahead” on a ghazal by Saadi Shirazi or a Kurdish Bayat song that was performed privately with Hassan Kasaei and Jalil Shahnaz.
Ali Asghar Shahzeydi is currently training students of the Isfahan vocal school. He holds a memorial ceremony in Isfahan every year for Hassan Kasaei. His latest work, called Still Singing, is a collection of his improvised songs.
Shahzidi has collaborated artistically with Ali Tajvidi, Jalil Shahnaz, Hassan Kasaei, Habil Aliyev, and Fereydoon Shahbazian, and has also performed the song “Geryeh Kon” by Aref Qazvini for the soundtrack of the series Thiqat-ul-Islam Tabrizi (TV series) (Twelve Days of Constitutional History).
Holding numerous concerts inside and outside the country, the most important of which are four nights of improvisational reading concerts in Tehran’s Vahdat Hall with the accompaniment of Jalil Shahnaz and Jahangir Malek, and a concert by the National Orchestra conducted by Fereydoon Shahbazian in Chehelston Palace of Isfahan, performing vocals improvisationally with the cooperation of numerous artists such as Jalal Zulfonoon, Shahriar Faryousefi, Darvish Reza Montazami are other activities of him.
The works collected from this artist are in Khosousi website as follows:
