The Shams Ensemble is a musical group that performs traditional Kurdish, Sufi and classical Iranian music with the tanbour (a stringed instrument), daf (frame drum), and percussion instruments. It was founded by composer Kaykhosro Pournazeri.
Pournazeri's formed the Shams Ensemble with the vision of bringing back the lost art of the Tanbour through compositions that fused the tanbor with other classical instruments.
He invited some of his students who were familiar with playing Tanbour and gradually they became well known in Iran.
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