Place and date of birth: Tehran; 1941
Permanent member and head of the music group of the Academy of Arts of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Majid Kiani first studied the dulcimer of Abolhassan Saba for four years with Professor Manouchehr Sadeghi and Professor Mohammad Heydari at the National Conservatory of National Music.
He then studied Miz Abdullah with Professor Noor Ali Khan Boroumand and Professor Dariush Safvat at the University of Tehran, Fine Arts Campus, Department of Music.
Habib Samaei continued to learn to play the dulcimer and percussion pieces and compositions for another four years, as well as in the presence of Professor Noor Ali Boroumand.
Majid Kiani also studied a vocal course with Professor Abdullah Davami and studied music at the Sorbonne University in Paris for three years in the field of oriental music with Tran Vanke.
In 1979, he became a member of the faculty of the University of Tehran and taught the theoretical foundations of Iranian music in the music group of the Fine Arts Campus.
In addition to being the director of the Fine Arts Campus music group for seven years, he also managed the Conservation and Dissemination Center for several years.
From 1987 to 2017, Majid Kiani published 59 audio and video works. He wrote 14 books about Iranian music. He held about 200 educational and research concerts in Iran, Europe, Canada and the United States. He wrote 54 articles on Iranian music and its relationship with other Iranian arts, and had 10 interviews and interviews on radio and television. He also conducted about 80 interviews in newspapers, magazines and quarterly magazines.
Currently, he is the director of Sarv Setah Cultural Institute, the head of the music group of the Academy of Arts and its permanent member, as well as a member of the Music Council for the Evaluation of Artists in the Country.
List of books published by Sarv Setah Cultural Institute, Iran Seda va Ney from 1989 to 2017:
- Seven Iranian musical instruments, 330 pages. First edition, 1989, Revised second edition, 1992, Third edition (publication of Surah Mehr) 2014 and Fourth edition, with CD, 2018;
- Mirza Abdollah row, based on the narration of Noor Ali Boroumand, Nashr-e Ney, first edition, spring 1990;
- Santour Training, Mirza Abdollah Row, Shoor System, Based on the Narration of Noor Ali Boroumand, Iran Seda Publishing, First Edition, Fall 1993;
- A Study of Three Solo Methods in Current Iranian Music, Rewritten by Seyed Alireza Mir Ali Naghi, 88 pages, Fall 1991.
- Nova (An Attitude Towards Iranian Music), 38 pages, first edition, summer 1995;
- Seyed Hossein Taherzadeh, 77 pages, first edition, spring 1996;
- Habib Samaei (on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the great master of the Santour of Iran) 102 pages, first edition winter 1996;
- Theoretical foundations of Iranian music, 184 pages, spring 1998;
- Love Star (Aesthetics of Love Types) 102 pages, Spring 2003;
- How to research Iranian music, 108 pages, winter 2004;
- Excerpts from the articles and interviews of Seyyed Abdolmajid Kiani in the conference honoring the selected academies, published by the Academy of Arts;
- In memory of Habib, Conversation, by Ali Shadkam, First Edition, 462 pages, Fall 2014;
- Recognition of the art of music, Sama Radif, including 18 books, 768 pages, with CD, summer 2016;
- Recognition of the art of music, Sama row 2, including 6 320-page books, with a CD in the fall of 2019.
