Shahin Shahbazi was born in Tehran and became the apprentice of
Ostad Dariush Talai at an early age. Later he learned and worked with some of the most famous masters of Iranian music like
Mohammad-Reza Lotfi,
Manouchehr Sahbaei,
Hossein Dehlavi,
Farhad Fakhredini and
Houshang Zarif. In 2002 he founded the Nafir Ensemble. His most famous composition with Nafir ensemble is the recording of Shahnazi's complete Radif work. This work is outstanding as it was the first time that a composer was capable to rewrite Shahnazi's Radif work for all traditional Iranian instruments. Furthermore, Nafir ensemble pioneered by becoming the first Iranian Radif orchestra. He is also music graduate of San Francisco State University(SFSU). Together with Nafir ensemble Shahbazi performed many concerts, most notably during the
UNESCO declared
Rumi year in 2007 at the official celebrations in
Konya and highly anticipated concerts at Irans most famous concerts hall, the
Vahdat Hall. == Albums ==