Pejman Akbarzadeh

Pejman Akbarzadeh was born in 1980 in Shiraz. He studied the piano and qanun with the prominent musicians Farman Behboud and Maliheh Saeedi in Tehran.

 
At age fifteen, Akbarzadeh started to research the artistic activities and works of 20th century Persian musicians residing both inside and outside Iran. When he was eighteen, he completed and published the first volume of his research, which was positively received by the Persian music community. This work has become a reference for accredited publications, such as Encyclopaedia Iranica, and has been described as "an honor to the Persian musicological community" by the Maryland-based Iranian Musicology Quarterly.

Despite his young age, Akbarzadeh has contributed to some of the most reputable Persian publications in Tehran, Washington, DC, and New Jersey, including the Persian Heritage Quarterly, Sharq, Bukhara

 bi-monthly , Rahavard, Iran News Daily, Washington Iranians, and the now banned Yas-e No Daily.

Currently he is working on the third and fourth volumes of his project, Persian Musicians, and he continues his studies in the field of music.

He is also a member of the Persian Gulf Organization, Artists without Frontiers, and the Iran Heritage Society.