Parviz Meshkatian was an Iranian musician, composer, researcher and university lecturer.
Education
Born in Nishapur, Meshkatian entered the Tehran Academy of Arts, where he studied music theory and was introduced to radif (the Persian classical music repertoire) by the masters Nour Ali Boroumand, Dariush Safvat, Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh, and Mehdi Barkeshli.
Career
He focused on the radif of Mirza Abdollah for santur and setar. The Chavosh foundation has played a major role in the development of Iranian music for a few decades. Meshkatian toured Europe and Asia and regularly performed in countries such as France, Germany, England, Sweden, Netherlands, and Denmark.
In the spring of 1982 he published the book Twenty Pieces for Santour.
Meshkatian"s collaboration with Mohammad Reza Shajarian produced some of the most beautiful recordings of contemporary Persian traditional music While continuing his work as a composer and a researcher, Meshkatian was teaching music at Tehran University.
Meshkatian died on September 21, 2009, in Tehran, of a heart attack.
Membership
Meshkatian was one of the founding members of the Aref Ensemble, founded in 1977, as well as the Sheyda Ensemble. He was also one of the founding members of the Chavosh Artistic and Cultural Foundation.