Iran’s veteran vocalist Nasehpour dies at 83
IRNA – Iran’s renowned vocalist and former board member of the Iran Music House, Nasrollah Nasehpour, died at the age of 83.
He will be laid to rest at the Artists’ Section in Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery on Wednesday. He was born in Ardebil in 1940 and was raised in a music-oriented family since childhood.
When he moved to Tehran, he studied vocal radif with the late Mahmoud Karimi for about seven years. He also studied instrumental radif repertoire of Persian art music at the National Music Institute with the late Ali Akbar Khan Shahnazi.
In the class of the late Soleiman Amir Qasemi, he got in touch with the late Saeed Hormozi (a very skillful setar player) and he learned many important points of Persian art music. At last, he worked with the great master of vocal radif repertoire, the late Abdollah Davami, who had a great influence on his musical development. The unique timbre of Nasehpour’s vocals, coupled with his creative talent and rich Azarbaijani musical background, made him an outstanding performer. He researched, taught, and performed for more than 50 years and trained thousands of students. Some of those students are famous vocalists in Iran and abroad.
As a professor at the Art University of Tehran, his books on the old theoretical music of Persia have been published by the Iranian Academy of the Arts Publication.