Peyman Nasehpoor

Peyman Nasehpour (Persian پیمان ناصح پور, born in 1974) is an Iranian hand drummer and mathematician. His instrument of choice is the tonbak, the Iranian goblet drum and his mathematical specialty is commutative algebra.

Biography
Born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran, Peyman Nasehpour comes from a long line of musicians: his father is the famous vocalist Nasrollah Nasehpour, his grandfather was garmon-player Agha Shakour and his grandmother was ghaval-player Huriyeh Khanum.

He learned Persian tonbak at the early age of nine with Nasser Farhangfar and broadened his drumming knowledge by working on Azeri dayereh (ghaval), Kurdish daf and Indian tabla.

He has collaborated with notable musicians such as his father, Habil Aliyev, Mohammad Reza Lotfi, Peter Giger, Gevorg Dabaghyan, Majid Derakhshani, Hassan Nahid, Massoud Shaari, Elshan Mansurov and Gitti Khosravi. In 1996, with his father and his brothers Pooyan and Parham, he formed the Nassehpoor Ensemble.

He placed 12th in the Iranian State Student Scientific Olympiad in the mathematics category in 1997. He received his Master of Science in the field of mathematics at University of Tehran in 1999 supervised by Siamak Yassemi.

In June 2005, Nasehpour wrote an open letter to Iranian presidential candidate Mostafa Moeen, thanking him for remarks on the lack of official recognition of Iranian folk music, and urging greater support for the teaching of traditional Iranian music, especially at the university level.

In September 2007, he toured as a member of "world family of percussion pack" led by Peter Giger in Germany.

Nasehpour holds a PhD in Mathematics and obtained his Dr. rer. nat. degree in the field of mathematics at University of Osnabrück under the supervision of Winfried Bruns in 2011. He currently gives lectures on mathematics and music in Iranian universities.