Sepand Dadbeh

Sepand Dadbeh is an Iranian multi-instrumentalist, troubadour, artistic director and producer. He born in 1992 and grown and flourished in a rich family of artists and musicians. He first took up music at the age of nine with Tombak, moving on to specialize in Oud and Tanbour under the supervision of some of the best musicians in Iran as such Sohrab Pournazeri and Arsalan Kamkar. Sepand became a member of the Shams ensemble, led by maestro Kaykhosrow Pournazeri in 2011 while performing alongside great artists such as Sohrab and Tahmoures Pournazeri, Homayoun Shajarian, Alireza Ghorbani, and Antoni Rey. He also graduated Bachelor of Arts in Music from Tehran University, and completed M.Mus. in the World Music at Codarts University of Rotterdam; where he also worked and studied in the field of Maqam music with maestro Kudsi Erguner as his educator. 
His musical collective “Jansouz” was named after the artistic name of his grandfather, a renowned maestro in the field of singing and the cultural history of Persian music. Since 2012, the Jansouz Collective has been creating and performing interdisciplinary forms in music related to the Iranian Cultural Civilization in collaboration with international musicians. As a troubadour, he strives to combine the musical self-discipline of the ancient musicians with a novel understanding of modern time.