Pejman Hadadi

Innovative Iranian Master Percussionist

• Born in Tehran/ Iran 1969
• Studied music with master musicians including Asadollah Hejazi, Bahman Rajabi
• Collaborated with music ensembles including Oshagh, Nava, Dastan, Zarbang, Hamavayan and NuAeen
• Innovated a version of custom-made tunable frame drums called Pezhvāk or Davaayer-e Kooki
• Collaborated with master musicians such as Hossein Alizadeh, Shahram Nazeri, Ali Akbar Moradi, Kayhan Kalhor, Homayoun Shajarian, Sima Bina, Parissa and Mojgan Shajarian
• Performs regularly in prestigious concert halls and music festivals including Carnegie Hall, New York; Queen Elizabeth Hall, London; Disney Hall, Los Angeles; San Francisco World Music Festival; Silkroad Festival in Hong Kong; Sfinks Festival in Holland and Prince of Egypt
• Recorded numerous albums and film scores including Monad, Torbat, Fire of Passion, Scattering Stars Like Dust, Prince of Persia
• Two times recipient of the Durfee Foundation Master Musician Award
• Teacher and educator of rhythm and percussion
• Faculty member at UCLA

"Hadadi is a technical wizard who contributes fire and a unique personality to improvisational passages." John Payne, Los Angeles Weekly "Hadadi was clearly a virtuoso, coaxing speech from his frame drum by tickling, teasing, tapping, palming, plucking, strumming, slapping, chopping, knuckling, and touching his drum in every conceivable way. The variety of timbres he achieved from playing a single drum was astounding, and the quickness with which his fingers whipped across the drum's head and scurried over its rim was staggering. "Jeremy Siskind, Doo Bee Doo Bee Doo, An online cross-cultural magazine.