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SOAS Concert Series - Peyman Heydarian ( ) - The Voice of the Santur

Published: March 15, 2019, 4:55 p.m.

b'Taken from the LIVE SOAS Series \\nBorn in Shiraz, Iran, Peyman Heydarian (\\u067e\\u06cc\\u0645\\u0627\\u0646 \\u062d\\u06cc\\u062f\\u0631\\u06cc\\u0627\\u0646) is an award-winning santur (Iranian hammer dulcimer) virtuoso, computer scientist and musicologist. Over the years, he has adopted innovative tuning systems and performance techniques to play a multi-ethnic repertoire on santur and developed computer algorithms for the analysis of Persian musical signals. In addition to teaching at various London universities, Peyman has toured the world with his multi-ethnic programme \\u2018The Voice of Santur\\u2019 since 2010.'