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Ziya Tabassian began playing the tombak (Iranian drum) at the age of ten. After a brief initiation period in Iran, he continued his autodidactic training in Quebec, his adopted homeland.From 1994 to 2001, he studied classical Western percussion with Julien Grégoire and obtained a Bachelor’s degree in interpretation from the Université de Montréal.

I studied classic percussion at the La Plata city Conservatory with the master Ernesto Ringer (Colon theater percussionist). I studied drums with the master Horacio Gianello and Hindu percussion (tabla) with the master Sanjay Badhoriya and Armony with the master Horacio Moscovici.

Igal Sasson was born in 1979 in Isfahan, Iran. He was interested in music since he was a child, and he started playing the keyboard and centaur. He started playing the Daf drum with Master of Daf Mr Bijan Kamkar .

Hi! My name is Erik Markovskii. I’m a multi-instrumentalist, percussionist, and educator with more than 18 years of international performance and teaching experience. I specialize in a wide range of instruments — frame drum, darbuka, handpan (hang drum), cajón, djembe, daf, riqq, Caucasian nagara, and jaw harp (vargan) — connecting traditional and modern rhythmic languages.