Massoud Shaari was born in 1961 in Tehran , Iran. From the very childhood, he was deeply attached to Iranian music and started learning
Santur at the age of thirteen, taught by the lost artist
Manijeh Alipour. After a while, he turned to learn
Setar, monitored by
Dariush Tala'i and has continued playing it ever since. In 1982, he begun learning
Tar, taught by
Mohammad Reza Lotfi, through whom he became acquainted with the art of Iranian traditional music systems (
Radif) and its mysteries. In the meantime, he was honored to be trained by master
Ali Asghar Bahari and spent a wh…
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