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Tahmoures Pournazeri is a composer whose creativity and inventiveness have marked him as a distinguished artist of his generation. He has composed for fifteen albums covering six genres of music, participated in the Avignon Festival at the age of 15, won first honors among Young Iranian Talents at age 14, and performed with the Shams Ensemble at Iran’s most celebrated concert halls starting at age 12. Along with his father Maestro Pournazeri Kaykhosro and his brother Sohrab, Tahmoures leads and directs the Shams Ensemble – considered one of Iran’s foremost musical groups. He plays all the major Iranian instruments, concentrating especially on the Tar, Setar, Tanbur, Barbat, and Daf – and has experimented with and composed for new instruments designed by MohammadReza Shajarian. Tahmoures continues to compose in the fields of mystical music, modern Iranian classical music, Kurdish music, symphonic orchestral music, and modern fusion. He also has extensive experience in the field of music recording. His cooperation with Homayoun Shajarian, the celebrated Iranian singer, has led to a best-selling album, ‘Beyond Any Form’, and the highest grossing concert tour in the history of Iranian music, with a total audience of over 120,000. The album also features Sohrab Pournazeri on the Kamancheh, Pacific Symphony, American composer David Garner, Indian Sitar virtuoso Shujaat Husain Khan, , and American blues guitarist Jimmy Johnson and Josette Bushel Mingo
