Mohsen Sharifian

  • TEHRAN.(HONARONLINE) – Iranian vocalist and neyanban virtuoso Mohsen Sharifian has published Pictures of two rare paintings by Iranian miniaturist Reza Abbasi that confirm the Iranian origins of neyanban, a kind of bagpipe most common in southern Iran.

  • TEHRAN.(HONARONLINE) – Lian, a band from the southern Iranian city of Bushehr, will be giving a performance before the second leg of the 2018 AFC Champions League final between Kashima Antlers of Japan and Iran’s Persepolis in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium on Saturday evening.

  • TEHRAN.(HONARONLINE) – The Indian city of Mumbai is playing host to an Iranian festival presenting art and cultural performances from the southern Iranian city of Bushehr under the title “From Bushehr to Mumbai”.

  • A special ceremony was held at the Institute for Development of Contemporary Arts to unveil Mohsen Sharifian’s latest book – which is also on CD - on how to play Ney-Anban. In collaboration with Babak Shahraki, the Wednesday event was attended by Ney-Anban player and Lyan music group leader Mohsen Sharifian, Managing Director of Institute for Development of Contemporary Arts Mahdi Afzali, and Managing Director of the Iran's House of Music Hamidreza Nourbakhsh. Ney-Anban is a type of bagpipe which is popular in southern Iran, especially around Bushehr. The term Ney-Anban literally means bag pipe.