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Reza Aliabadi  (Persian="رضا علی آبادی",born 29 September 1987, Tehran) is a musician, composer, researcher, and soloist. His father's friendship with great Tanbur masters, such as the late Seyyed Mansour Yari Shah Ebrahimi, Darvish Javanmir Manhoei Gurjoui, and Seyyed Ahmad Hosseini, made him acquainted with the Tanbur and Maqami music from his childhood. His excessive interest in music led him to learn Tanbur since he was seven years old. Unique talent and perseverance made him move up the ladder quickly. In his interviews, Aliabadi mentions Professor Seyyed Ahmad Hosseini (Sahne Maqam) and Darvish Javanmir Manhuai Gurjoui (Goran Maqam) as the most influential people in his artistic and musical life.

Biography
Due to his great interest in music, After learning Maqami music, he began to study Persian traditional music academically, and Majid Latifi Seresht can be named as his most influential teacher in this field. Regarding his education, he first got a bachelor's degree in architecture. Due to his keen interest in music research, he also received a bachelor's degree in music (focused on Taar - Iranian instrument). Two of his most essential professors in this major were masters Mohammad Reza Lotfi and Amir Sharifi.

Reza Aliabadi's interest in research led him to make several trips to better understand the Tanbur's various schools; he benefited from great masters such as Kaykhosrow Pournazeri, Seyyed Khalil Alinejad, Taher Yarvisi, and Seyyed Khayal. Extensive research and combining academic and Maqami music have enabled him to publish numerous works in recent years that have attracted musicians' attention. Reza Aliabadi is one of the few musicians who, along with Maqami music, has complete mastery of playing and analyzing the Radif. On the other hand, his interest in traditional music and studying the works of people such as Safi al-Din Ermavi and Abdolqader Maraghei, who worked in the Montazemieh school, helped him to acquire a comprehensive knowledge over the Persian traditional music.

Publications
====Ancient Maqams of Tanbur ==== This is the first phonography book of the ancient Maqams of Tanbur, published in 2016 by Soroud Publications. This book is a collection of repertoires and notation of all Majlesi and Majazi Maqams using the two methods of "notation" and "transcription" in phonography. In this work, Aliabadi tries to make a teachable and understandable collection of Tanbur's Maghams using an analytical approach. For years, textbooks mistakenly recognized "Do (C)" as the standard tuning for Tanbur. Considering Alto's range of sound and Tanbur's natural sound, Aliabadi was the first person that introduced "Sol (G)" as the standard tuning for Tanbur in this book to decrease the inconsistency between sound and notation of Tanbur. This change has made it easier to teach and compose in orchestra and group playing for this instrument.

====Forty fingering exercises for Tanbur ==== This is the first book to warm up the fingers for playing the Tanbur. This book aims to improve fingers' placements and coordination between the right and left hands, which indirectly strengthens the mind. The various exercises enable learners to easily change their fingers' positions to adjacent and non-adjacent chords. The other benefits of the practices are to increase speed, accuracy, and the strength of the fingers. It is worth mentioning that this book is purely educational and can be used as a complementary book along with other exercises.

From Nazm to Maqam
This is the third Aliabadi's book published by Roudaki publications. Aliabadi said about this work:

''I wrote this book in 2014, but at that time, I was not satisfied with it and left the project. After two years of revisions, I wrote it again, but I could not convey what I meant properly, so I postponed the project again. Finally, in 2020 and for the third time, I worked on the book and rewrote it entirely in a way that I have always wanted. From the beginning, I learned to work in music fields that I saw a gap and a need for more effort. But I did not write unless I had enough knowledge of those areas. Publishing is becoming more difficult these days; however, I have never stopped writing and publishing because if the artist reduces her/his activities, he/she will die. Everyone knows how much I love Roudaki Hall, and there is no limit to my attachment and affection; maybe the beauty of this book doubled for me when the Rudaki Foundation published this book. This book examines the Maqams and Nazms of the Tanbur in terms of content and discusses more technical aspects. I have also tried not to change anything unilaterally but to consider all aspects of analysis.''

Concerts
Reza Aliabadi, as a composer, musician, soloist, conductor, or a member of the band, has held more than one hundred different concerts; some of the important ones are mentioned in the following table:

The concert of "The First Improvisation and Solo Concert of Tanbur" in Roudaki Hall can be named as the most important concert of Aliabadi, which was a turning point for him and his audience. This concert received so much attention that later a video album entitled Endless Forms was released.

Selected single tracks
The most important single tracks of this artist include the following:

• Bagh-e Bi Bargi (Leafless garden)

• Dar Entezar-e To (Waiting for you)

• Bi-Gharari (Restlessness)

• Khamoosh (Silent)

• Del-e Majnoon (The insane heart)

• Sheidayee (Mania)

• Paeezam (My autumn)

Albums
====Endless forms ====

Reza Aliabadi published the video album "Endless Forms" with the content of tanbur improvisation from the Iranian Music Association's publication. This album is one of the most extraordinary albums in the field of Tanbur playing. This artist says about his album: ''As a musician, although I have published three specialized books about Tanbur and have more than a decade of experience teaching music, I consider myself a soloist and have a great interest in solo or double performances. Because I believe my soul rests in this genre, and I feel more free and capable in this field. In the early 2000s, I participated in group performances, mostly in groups of my friends and sometimes in my own group; until in 2009 when I performed the first duet in Sa'dabad Palace, the point that can be marked as the beginning of my subsequent performances. With a few years delay and since 2015, I have had at least two concerts a year in the form of duet or trio in Roudaki Hall, in which I mostly used pointwise improvisation (the length of the path was specified and knotted, but the whole performance was improvisational). After eight performances in this format, I decided to develop the idea that had been on my mind for a long time, solo improvisation, which had its own stresses that challenged me more than ever. The recorded video of the same solo concert on August 16 at Roudaki Hall received much attention and positive feedback that I decided to publish it as a video album called "Endless Forms." Every soloist's common characteristics, including me, are to break his/her own boundaries and move forward. I am delighted with the continuous feedback from my audience that has not left me alone over the years. This year was a busy one, I published the book "Forty Exercises" in June, and I had this concert right away, and about two months later, in August, I published my third book, and now it's time to release the video album. As a musician, teacher, and author, I owe myself in the first place and then to the community I belong to, a community in which each of us has a share. And I tried to expand my works to the areas where either no work or little work has been done; I truly believe that history will judge my written, audio, and video works.''

Tanbur Nazms
Tanbur: Reza Aliabadi

Singer: Darwish Javanmir Manhui Gurjoui

The warm and unique voice of Manhui, with his extraterrestrial vibratos, and singing in "Yarsan" religious language, have distinguished this work from the others. This work's primary purpose was to collect and teach "Nazm"s and gradually, it all published for the enthusiastic audience. This work is the first part of the 5-volume collection of "Tanbur Nazms," published in May 2017 by Mahour Publication.

Teaching experience
Reza Aliabadi has been teaching since January 2001 and has taught in many schools during this period. Since 2016, after establishing Aliabadi Music Academy, he has been training students as the head of this academy. Other educational activities include the following:

• Teaching at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran

• Holding specialized seminars and workshops in the field of music history

• Membership in the Teachers Association of Iran House of Music

Jami Group
In 2009, Reza Aliabadi decided to establish the Jami group as the composer and leader of the group. This group held many concerts in Roudaki Hall, Milad Tower, Sa'dabad Palace, etc., and the last concert of this group was held in Konya, Turkey.