Artist Name: Madjid Khaladj
Genre:
Persian Classical
Country:
France,
Iran
Artist Bio:
Madjid Khaladj was born in Ghazvin, Iran, in 1962. At the age of seven, he started studying the tombak with masters Maleki and Badjalan. Through them he inherited the teachings of master Hossein Tehrani, to whom we owe the renaissance of the tombak in Iran.
Madjid Khaladj has been living in Paris since 1984 and he has been invited to teach the tombak at the Centre l'Etudes de Musiques Orientales, Institute de Musicologie, Paris-Sorbonne. He has introduced the tombak to numerous Western percussionists. He is also founder of the Tombak School for the Study of Iranian Percussion.
He has accompanied many Iranian master musicians: Hossein Alizadeh, Darush Talai, Mohamed Reza Shadjarian, Mohamed Reza Lotfi, Hossein Omomi and many others.
He has superb technique and excellent knowledge of Iranian rhythm. He plays many Iranian percussive instruments: daf, dayereh zangi, zarbe zorkhani and zange sarangoshti.
— Courtesy Calabash Music
