Career
Dariush Pirniakan, a world-renowned musician and composer of Persian Classical genre, learnt tar and setar under the supervision of Mohammad Hasan Ozari, great maestro Ali-Akbar Shahnazi, Doctor Dariush Safvat, Yousef Foroutan, Saeed Hormozi, and Mahmoud Karimi. While being a student of late maestro Ali Akbar khan Shahnazi, he had the honor to study radif of Mirza Hossein-gholi (Persian: میرزا حسینقلی) and Shahnazi"s advanced level repertoire (radif). After graduating from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tehran University (دانشگاه تهران), he started to work and teach at the Center for Preservation and Propagation of Persian Classical Music.
This collaboration lead to more than 220 concerts in Iran, United States of America, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Italy, and United Arab Emirates. He has been a music professor at Tehran University, the deputy chairman of Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Tehran University, as well as spokesman of Iran Music House.
