Seyed Khalil Alinezhad (alternative spelling: Seyyed Khalil Alinejad; : سید خلیل عالینژاد, born 1958, Sahneh, Kermanshah Province, Iran – 2001, Gothenburg, Sweden) was a great master of the spiritual instrument tanbur, recognized as one of the best tanbur players ever known. Seyed Khalil was born in a Kurdish family in a Sahneh County village in the Kermanshah Province, in western Iran. He started his tanbur lessons with Seyed Nader Taheri and followed his studies under supervisions of Seyed Amrollah Shah Ebrahimi, Dervish Amir Hayati, and Master Abedin Khademi. He finished his aca…
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