I first encountered the tonbak – Iran’s indigenous drum – as a student, when I heard it on an old LP I found in a dusty corner of the library at London’s Royal College of Music. Instantly, I was ...
Ebrahim Qanbari-Mehr, a pioneer in making and restoring musical instruments, tonbak virtuoso Mohammad Esmaeili, and Ashiq Saljuq Shahbazi received the honors on Monday, the Cultural Heritage, Tourism ...