Pejman Akbarzadeh

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Pejman Akbarzadeh (Persian پژمان اكبرزاده, born 1980) is a Persian (Iranian) musician and researcher and columnist of the popular reformist paper Shargh in Iran.

Born in Shiraz in 1980, he studied piano and qanun under Fahrman Beboud and Maileh Saeedi. At age fifteen he started to research on the works and activities of twentieth-century Persian (Iranian) composers and conductors. Three years later he published the first volume of his projected four-volume work, Persian Musicians. The books have been reference of several publications such as Encyclopedia Iranica and cited as "honor of Persian musicological circles' in Iranian Musicology Quarterly. He has also published the second volume. He has published numerous articles in Persian and English which have been published in Persian Heritage Magazine (New Jersey), Shargh Newspaper (Tehran), Rahavard Quarterly (Los Angeles), Gooya.com (Brussels), Shahrvand (Toronto), Payvand.com (San Francisco)... and Yas-e-no Daily which banned by Iran's regime in 2003.

Pejman Akbaezadeh has been interviewed by the weekly literary magazine Ketab-e Hafte, Radio Farda, BBC Persian Service, the Iranian.com (which featured him in 2002 as their Iranian of the day). He was Persian Gulf Organization representative from 2002 to 2006.

In 2006 because of restricted situation of musical life and freedom of speech in Iran Pejman Akbarzadeh immigrated to the Netherlands and at the moment is the music director of Radio Zamaneh in Amsterdam.

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Persian Musicians Volume 1 (Moosighidanane Irani, Jelde 1). Navid Publications, Shiraz/Tehran, 2000.
Persian Musicians Volume 2 (Moosighidanane Irani, Jelde 2). Roshanak Publications, Tehran, 2002, ISBN 964-93867-3-4