Saeid Shanbehzadeh

Saeid Shanbehzadeh
Neyanbânn, Neydjofti, Traditional
Dances


Saied is a Neyanban and Neyjofti virtuoso but also an
amazing dancer. He is often invited to participate to
concerts with recognized artists as Billy Cobham.
In 2001 he co-operated with the French
Montalvo/Hervieu Company in creating and touring with
the “Babelle Heureuse” show, which was performed
more than two hundred times in France, Europe and
Brazil.


At the age of twenty he created his own traditional music group, the Shanbezadeh’s
Ensemble which won the first prize at the Fajr Festival in Tehran in 1990. At the same time
he also began to conduct research and write about southern Iranian music in Iranian
periodicals. His research on the ethnomusicology of the region led him to collect many
different types of local music and create sound archives for this music. As a result of his
research and his concerts he is now a nationally and internationally known musician.

In 1996 he was invited to spend a semester at the University of Toronto. Two years later, he
was named professor and director at the House of Culture and Music of the island of Kish
(Iran).
In 2007 he was invited again by “La Cité de La Musique” of Paris to teach dance, singing and
music.
Saied animated workshop in schools in partnerships with ‘le theatre de Chaillot, “le
musée du louvres” and “la compagnie Montalvo/ hervieu” and cite de la musique in Paris.