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Behnam Samani

Born in 1967 in Iran and began his international professional career in 1987. He has collaborated with some of the most celebrated Iranian musicians like Ostad F. Payvar, H. Zarif and R. Badiyi as well as many international artists like Hariprasad Chaurasia and Schneider. As a founding member of the highly acclaimed percussion ensemble ZARBANG and a member of the foremost Classical Persian music group, Dastan Ensemble, he has toured extensively in North America, Europe and Brazil and has performed for the SWF and WDR Radio Stations in Germany. Behnam teaches workshops regularly in Italy, Spain and Holland in distinguished festivals such as the Silkroad festival in Hongkong in 2009. He is the creator of a new design of the percussion instrument, the ZARBANG Udu. His recently published instruction manual for Daf, Tombak and ZARBANG Udu is called ZARBANG.

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