Siamak Barghi

Siamak Barghi is an Iranian musician, and composer, and is currently a Ph.D. student in Musicology/Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his MA in Ethnomusicology in 2021 from the University of Tehran, Iran. Siamak started to learn music when he was 5, under the supervision of his father, Asad Barghi, and later benefited from Iranian Music Maestros Bahman Rajabi, Mohammadreza Lotfi, Navid Afghah, Hooman Asadi, Sasan Fatemi, and Babak Khazrai. As an instrumentalist (Violinist, Tonbak, and Kamanche Player), he has performed numerous concerts during 2006-2023 in his country and abroad. He founded Saba Orchestra in 2010 in his hometown, Mashhad, cooperating with his brother, Samad Barghi. Siamak has composed and arranged numerous music pieces for music ensembles and orchestras based on Iranian classical music, many of which have been performed and recorded. He is also familiar with other Iranian music instruments Setār, Tār, Daf, ‘Oud, Ney, and Ghichak.

Siamak has experience teaching music instruments and courses in several music institutes and universities in Iran since 2005. He established his music institute, Arqanon, in 2018 in Mashhad, Iran. Siamak has also conducted several research and fieldwork studies on the Folklore music of different cultural regions of Iran such as Eastern Khorāsān, Kermān, and Balouchestān, and has published several papers on them. He has transcribed a music album for Tonbak Solo (Āvāye Khiāl by Navid Afghah, 2000), as well as a tutorial book for Tonbak containing 88 pieces from elementary to advanced.