Naghmeh Farahmand

Naghmeh Farahmand a multi-skilled Iranian percussionist was born in 1980.She is the daughter of a leading master percussionist Mahmoud Farahmand.Naghmeh has studied Iranian traditional rhythms on tonbak under supervision of his father while learning Sufi and Kurdish rhythms on daf and dayereh from Bijan Kamkar and Masoud Habibi.In addition,she has also studied santoor with guidance of Faramarz Payvar and Pashang Kamkar and is also skill full in other percussion such as darbuka,djembe,udu,kanjira,cajon and drumset.

Naghmeh has performed with well-known ensembles in Iran and festivals and tours around the world, Europe,Asia and North America while collaborating with Iranian TV for more than a decade.


In 2010 she moved to Canada and released her solo percussion cd “Unbound" while collaborating with top performers of world music, Persian and Western Classical music. She has had vast experience teaching at different institutes of music and has also conducted workshops throughout the world. in 2016 she released her first Instructional DVD on Persian rhythms “ The Iranian Daf “ in international drumming language.