Ramtin Nazarijo Online Persian Santoor Lesson

About me:
He started music by playing Santur in Ms. Mina Oftadeh's class in 2004 and since then he had
finished all Santour Courses. Also he had studied the theoretical music knowledge such as
harmony, music theory and solfege with Mr. Kiavash Sahebnasagh. Nazarijou has studied
Biomedical engineering at Tehran Polytechnic (Amirkabir university of technology) as his Bsc
(graduated with grade A) and in April 2017 he has gained the first place in Iran's National
Master exam in Music and finished his master's course at the college of Fine arts, University
of Tehran as the first rank as well. He has published 7 books and two albums. Also dozens of
articles in different magazines/journals regarding music have been published by N azarijou.
His area of interest and research are: History of Music, Iranian Classical Music Repertory and
Music Analysis.
Publishments :
🔺 Pieces for Santur by Faramarz Payvar, Compiled and transcribed bu
Ramtin Nazarijou, Mahoor institute of arts and culture, Tehran, September
2022.
🔺Old Tasnifs, Arranged for Orchestra: Faramarz Payvar, compiled and
transcribed by Ramtin Nazarijou, Tehran, Mahoor institute of arts and
culture, Tehran, November 2021.
🔺 AliAkbar Shahnazi Tasnifs, compiled and transcribed by Ramtin
Nazarijou, HonarMusiqi publications, Tehran, February 2021.
🔺 AbolHasan Saba Tasnifs, compiled and transcribed by Ramtin
Nazarijou, Mahoor institute of art and culture, Tehran, September 2020.
🔺 Rounama: Pieces for Santur by Mohammad Heydari, compiled and
transcribed by Ramtin Nazarijou, HonarMusiqi Publications, Tehran,
November 2018.
🔺 Faramarz Payvar Tasnifs, compiled and transcribed by Ramtin
Nazarijou, compiled by Mina Oftadeh, Mahoor institute of arts and culture,
Tehran, January 2018.
🔺 Dardasht: 40 pieces for Santur by Faramarz Payvar, compiled and
transcribed by Ramtin Nazarijou, Mahoor institute of arts and culture,
Tehran, September 2017.
🔺 HaftPeykar and Traditional Rengs, Arranged for orchestra: Faramarz
Payvar, compiled by: Mina Oftadeh, transcribed and arranged for Santur
by: Ramtin Nazarijou, Mahoor institute of arts and culture, Tehran,
February 2017.
Papers, Articles and Notes :
🔺 Rokneddin Mokhtari: Musician, Police Headquarters Chief, and
Condemned (Part 2), written by Ramtin Nazarijou, Mahoor Music
Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 96, Summer 2022
🔺 Rokneddin Mokhtari: Musician, Police Headquarters Chief, and
Condemned (Part 1), written by Ramtin Nazarijou, Mahoor Music
Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 95, Spring 2022.
🔺 About Ali-Akbar Sheyda and his tasnifs, written by Ramtin Nazarijou,
Mahoor Music Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 94, Winter 2022, Tehran.
🔺 Miscellaneous Notes: 1. Some remarks Concerning Dust’aliKhan
Mo’ayyer-ol-Mamalek Memoir; 2. Moluk Zarrabi’s Masters, written
by Ramtin Nazarijou, Mahoor Music Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 93, Autumn
2021, Tehran.
Interview with Seyyed Javad Badi’Zadeh, transcription from aural files
and Notes: Ramtin Nazarijou, Honare Musighi monthly Music magazine,
vol. 24, no. 183, July 2021- March 2022, Tehran.
🔺 About their Misery, written by Ramtin Nazarijou, Journal of Fine Arts
Studies, Vol.2, No. 5, Autumn 2021, Tehran.
🔺 Faramarz Payvar’s Compositional Technics, written by Ramtin
Nazarijou, Journal of Dramatic Arts and Music, Vol. 12, No. 23, Winter
2020 (The journal was published in Fall 2021), Tehran.
🔺 A discussion about Iranian Classical Music Performance Perspectives:
From Technic and Necessity to Social Accompaniment, written by
Ramtin Nazarijou, Journal of Fine Arts Studies, Vol.2, No. 4, Summer
2021, Tehran.
🔺 A discussion on Iranian music performing perspectives: from
necessity and technic to social accompany, written by Ramtin Nazarijou,
Fine arts studies Quarterly (associated with University of Tehran), Vol.2,
No. 4, Summer 2021, Tehran.
🔺 Four Historical points, written by Ramtin Nazarujou, Farahang Music
Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 6, Summer 2021, Tehran.
🔺 Miscellaneous Notes: 1) Division of Ministry of Culture and the
Establishment of Ministry of Culture and Arts/ 2) Colloboration of
Ali-Akbar Shahnazi with Female Singers/ 3) On the First Performance
of “Morgh-e Sahar”/ 4) On the Programmes Performed in The
Opening ceremony of Rudaki Hall, written by Ramtin Nazarijou,
Mahoor Music Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 91, Spring 2021, Tehran.
🔺 In the memory of 16th anniversary of Mojtaba Mirzade Death with
Transcription and notation of ChehelSotun Reng, written and
transcribed by Ramtin Nazarijou, Honare Musighi Monthly Music
Magazine, vol. 24, no. 182, April-June 2021, Tehran.
🔺 Interviews with AbolHAsan Saba, Morteza Hannaneh, Mohammad
MirNaghibi and and Javad Maroufi, transcription from aural files and
Notes: Ramtin Nazarijou, Farahang Music Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 5, Spring
2021, Tehran.
🔺 Interview with Manouchehr HomayunPur, transcription from aural file
and notes: Ramtin Nazarijou, Bukhara bimonthly journal of arts, culture
and Iranian studies, vol. 26, no. 144, Summer 2021, Tehran.
🔺 Interviews of Banan, transcription from aural files and notes: Ramtin
Nazarijou, Honare Musighi monthly Music magazine, vol. 23, no. 181,
December 2020- March 2021, Tehran.
🔺 Interview with Ashraf-o-Sadat Mortezayi, transcription from aural file
and notes: Ramtin Nazarijou, Farahang Music Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 4,
Winter 2020, Tehran.
🔺 Interview with Esmail Mehrtash and GholamHossein Banan,
transcribed and compiled by Ramtin Nazarijou, GhalamYaran Cultural
Monthly magazine, vol.4, Norouz 2021 Special Number, March 2021,
Tehran.
🔺 Music Modernization and women, written by Ramtin Nazarijou,
GhalamY
🔺 Shajarian: An exception in Iranian Classical Avaz, written by Ramtin
Nazarijou, Farahang Music Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 4, Winter 2020, Tehran.
🔺 A Radio Interview with Jenab Damavandi, transcribed, compiled and
notation by Ramtin Nazarijou, Mahoor Quarterly vol. 22, no. 87, spring
2020, Tehran.
🔺 Two old interviews with Hossein Ghavami (Fakhte’i), transcribed and
compiled by Ramtin Nazarijou, GhalamYaran Cultural Monthly magazine,
vol.2, no. 24, May-June 2020, Tehran.
🔺 Some old interviews with musicians, Transcribed, compiled and notation
by Ramtin Nazarijou, Farahang Quarterely, vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 2020,
Tehran.
🔺 A review on Raz-o-Niaz piece by Faramarz Payvar, written by Ramtin
Nazarijou, Art of Music monthly magazine, vol. 22, no. 178, October 2019-
March 2020.
🔺 Old interviews of Abdollah Davami and Adib Khansari, transcribed
and compiled by Ramtin Nazarijou, Art of Music monthly magazine, vol.
23, no. 179, March-June 2020.
🔺 “Lotfi” of Iranian Music, for 73rd Birthday of Mohammadreza Lotfi,
written by Ramtin Nazarijou, Shahrvand Newspaper, 11 January 2020.
🔺 KhaleRowRow: Reng or Noheh? Written by Ramtin Nazarijou, Farahang
Music Quarterly, No. 1, Vol. 1, Winter 2020.
🔺 A Couple of Old interviews with Artists, Compiled and notations by
Ramtin Nazarijou, Mahoor Quarterly vol. 21, no.83, Spring 2019, Tehran.
🔺 An Interview with Ebrahim Safaee and Ashrafosadat Mortezaee
about Aliakbar Sheyda, Compiled and notation by Ramtin Nazarijou,
Mahoor Quarterly vol. 21, no. 82, Winter 2019, Tehran.
🔺 Please Do not Sing! Actor-singers or a cultural crisis?, written by
Ramtin Nazarijou, Ebtekar newspaper, Saturday, 1 December 2019.
🔺 Festival of “culture and Art”: A brief look on an important cultural
event in Second Pahlavi’s Era, written by Ramtin Nazarijou, Art of Music
magazine vol. 22, no. 177, August and October 2019.
🔺 Right Cultural approach, for 20th anniversary of Art of Music Magazine,
written By Ramtin Nazarijou, Art of Music Magazine number 171,
September 2019.
🔺 The Accordioniste, a short story written by Ramtin Nazarijou, Kargadan
weekly magazine, number 115 (163), August 2019.
🔺 I won’t go but you shouldn’t miss it! About some misbehaviours of
Musicians in Social Media, written by Ramtin Nazarijou, Ebtekar
newspaper, 26 August 2019.
🔺 In the memory of Parviz Meshkatian, written by Ramtin Nazarijou,
Shahrvand Newspaper, Sunday 12 May 2019.
🔺 Meshkatian: The Musician, in his memorial, written by Ramtin
Nazarijou, Ebtekar Newspaper, 21 September 2019.
🔺 His sorrow as sad as yesterday, written by Ramtin Nazarijou, In the
memory of Faramarz Payvar, Chelcheragh weekly magazine number 724,
December 2018.
🔺 A brief look on Iranian music in social media, Art of Music magazine
167, September 2017, Tehran.
🔺 Analysis of the piece Peyvand by Faramarz Payvar, Art of Music
magazine, Jan 2017.
🔺 In the 100th birthday of Leonard Bernstein, Interview with Babak Buban
about Leonard Bernstein's Young people's concerts. Interviewer: Ramtin
Nazarijou. Mahoor Music Quarterly vol. 21, no. 81Autumn 2018.
🔺 In the right point of history, in the memory of Faramarz Payvar.
Kargadan magazine, n. 106, January 2019.
🔺 A brief look on Faramarz Payvar's Style of Notation, Art of Music
magazine number 174, November- December 2018 and January 2019.
🔺 Notation of Rounama Reng by late Mohammad Heidari, written by
Ramtin Nazarijou, Art of Music magazine, number 164, December 2016.

Albums (Cd)
🔺 Gardan, Santur: Ramtin Nazarijou, Tombak: Iman Bahrami,
Noufe records, Tehran, May 2022.
🔺 From the Beyond, A musical sketch by `ramtin Nazarijou, Santur:
Ramtin NAzarijou, Oud: Yasamin ShahHosseini, Noufe records,
Tehran, March 2019.
🔺 The Dialogue, Faramarz Payvar’s Duet collection, Mahoor
institute of arts and culture, Tehran, 2015.

Other Activities
🔺 Playing Santur in the Cd (cd of the book) Hamnavaz 2: 25 pieces by
Faramarz Payvar, Notation and Ney Performance: Siyamak Jahangiri,
Santur: ramtin Nazarijou, Tombak: Vahid Fatayi, Mahoor institute of art
and culture, September 2020.
🔺 Several Performances in University of Tehran, College of fine arts.
🔺 Faramarz Payvar and hossein Tehrani Memorial, Santur: Ramtin
Nazarijou, Tombak: Kiarash Baktashian, University of Tehran, College
of Fine arts, 11 March 2018.
🔺 Playing in 5 tracks of the Cd "The Dialogue"(the duet collection of
Faramarz Payvar)-Mahoor institute of art and culture,2015
🔺 Solo performance in the concert "Night of Persian Musical Instruments"-
Tehran,Roudaki hall,2015.
🔺Participating in the Ethno Music festival in Portugal and performed
several concerts during the festival-2016.
🔺 Faramarz Payvar and Parviz Meshkatian memorial in Amirkabir
universityof technology (Tehran Polytechnic) Santour: Ramtin Nazarijou
Tombak: Arash Lotfi.
🔺 First place in Santour playing of 8th youth music festival -2014.
🔺 Second Place in 6th youth music festival-2007.
🔺 Second place in the free music institutes of Iran-2009.
🔺 Playing Tombak in Afarin Nazrijou(Qanun Player)Master's degree final
concert and project, College of fine arts, University of Tehran
🔺 Performance of the Fanous Duet by Faramarz Payvar in Arasbaran house
of culture-2014.
🔺 Several performances in Amirkabir University of technology and child
and teenager institute.
🔺Performance in Niavaran's Cultural House.
🔺 Several performances in University of Tehran
🔺 Belgheys: Story of a mother, A musical sketch by Ramtin Nazarijou,
Santur: Ramtin Nazarijou, Ud: Yasamin ShahHosseini, University of
Tehran, December 2017.
🔺 Improvisation in dastgah Segah, Santur: Ramtin Nazarijou, Tombak:
Shayan Yazdizadeh, Studio Markov, Tehran, July 10th 2020.
🔺 Improvisation In Avaz BayatTork, Santur: Ramtin Nazarijou, Tombak:
Shayan Yazdizadeh, Azad Art House, 21 May 2021.
🔺 Improvisation Dastgah Chahargah, Santur: Ramtin Nazarijou, Tombak:
Shayan Yazdizadeh, Azad Art House, 1 October 2021.
🔺 ShahrAshub Reng in Dastgah Shur (Full version), Santur: Ramtin
Nazarijou, Tombak: Shayan Yazdizadeh, Azad Art House, 24 March
2022.
🔺 Improvisation in Avaz Esfahan, Santur: Ramtin Nazarijou, Tombak:
Shayan YazdiZadeh, Azad Art `house, 21 September 2022.

Workshops
🔺 Iranian traditional music concert and workshop in University College of
Cork (UCC), April 2018.
🔺 Iranian traditional music concert and workshop in University College of
Dublin (UCD), April 2018.
(For Videos of my performances you can check my Youtube channel.)
🔺 A Study on Faramarz Payvar’s biography and role in contemporary
history of Iranian Classical music, Lecturer: Ramtin Nazarijou, Hanooz
cultural sessions, number 16, Santur: Ramtin Nazarijou, Tombak: Shayan
Yazdizadeh, Hanooz Bookstore, 1 december 2019. (You can find this
Performance in my Youtube channel.)
🔺 Research based Performance: “ZarbiKhani”, Presenter, Tombak and
Vocal: Ramtin Nazarijou, Kamancheh: Fardin MirzaHosseini, Avini Hall,
College of Fine arts, University of Tehran, 15 December 2019. (You can find this
Performance in my Youtube channel.)