Product Description Traditional Persian music on the violin, and kamancheh and tunbak featuring legendary Iranian maestro Rahmatollah Badiyi. About the Artist Rahmatollah Badiyi was born in 1936 in Kashan, Iran. At the age of five he began to play the nayk, a Persian flute and at age seven, he started playing violin. At age eleven, he entered the Tehran Conservatory to study classical music with the famous Abol-Hasan Saba who would be his mentor for the next five years. He has collaborated with various national orchestras as a concert master and soloist for more than twenty three years. During this period he worked as a professor in the National Conservatory of Music in Iran's capital, Tehran. In addition to the violin, Badiyi plays the kamoncheh and ghichak, both traditional stringed instruments of Iran. He received an honorary doctorate from the Ministry of Art and Culture of Iran, the highest possible recognition for his work in music.
