A singer gestures as musicians play during the opening ceremony of the 18th World Sacred Music Festival in Fes [AFP] The recent death of Iranian master musician Mohammad Reza Lotfi (1947-2014) on May ...

An adept of the tar and setar, long-necked lutes related to the guitar and sitar, Mohammad-Reza Lotfi revitalized the Iranian classical tradition by integrating elements of folk music into it. Tar ...

This Documentary takes a look at the art life of Maestro "MohammadReza Lotfi", the great master of "Târ", "Setâr"; great composer of Persian traditional music and the father of art of improvisation in ...

Members of Sheida and Aref, the two bands Lotfi established, are scheduled to attend the celebration named “Passion of Music” to perform some of their memorable pieces, the center announced in a press ...

Join 24,000 of your neighbors and stay in tune with the Triangle. Sign up At first glance, a reader might be surprised to learn that these words were written in Persian more than 700 years ago. They ...

This outstanding musician had collaborated with renowned Iranian vocalists Mohammad Reza Shajarian and Shahram Nazeri. Lotfi had also collaborated with other great musicians Hossein Alizadeh and ...

The delicate strings of the setar take a lifetime to master, said Farzad Amoozegar. For the UCLA anthropology and ethnomusicology graduate student, his studies began when he was 6 years old and his ...

Directed by Mohammad Reza Lotfi, 'Reset' has been selected to be screened at the main and competition section of the 4th edition of the Festival del Cinema di Castel Volturno in Italy. Reza Behboodi, ...

Mohammad-Reza Lotfi (Persian: محمدرضا لطفی‎; 1 January 1947 – 2 May 2014) was an Iranian classical musician renowned for his mastery of the tar and setar. He collaborated with singers such as Mohammad ...