Pejman Hadadi is a virtuoso Iranian tombak and daf (frame drum) player who has been hailed as “the finest Iranian percussionist living in the West” (KPFA Radio, Berkeley, CA). Hadadi began playing tombak at the age of ten under the masters of the instrument Asadollah Hejazi and Bahman Rajabi. In 1990, upon immigrating to the U.S., he began his professional career as a performing and recording artist with ensembles of Persian classical music as well as Indian, Turkish and American musicians. In 1995, Hadadi joined Dastan, a West Coast-based ensemble of Iranian musicians, which has toured extensively throughout the U.S., Europe and Iran.