Iman Vaziri was born in 1970 in Iran. He is a performer of Persian classical music on the tar and a composer. He began his music studies by learning the tar and the radif of Persian classical music, as well as Western classical music. He is a music graduate from the faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, and has studied composition with Iranian avant-garde composer, Alireza Mashayekhi. According to Mashayekhi, the works of Iman Vaziri convey a historic message since it is for the first time that a serious Iranian composer who has studied composition inside the country is introduced. The works of Vaziri enjoy certain features the most important of which is his special approach towards composition inspired by the tradition of Iranian music. Indeed, in his works these are not merely Iranian melodies that are adopted by the composer, but his works rely upon the underlying modal, melodic and formal ground-rules embodied in the repertory of Persian classical music, which are intuitively grasped and taken up into his works due to his deep understanding of both Persian and Western musical traditions. Iman Vaziri has experienced a variety of styles and compositional techniques, which are according to some critics categorized under such types as post-tonal, neo-romantic, and post-modern. Nevertheless, one can say he has been successful in his efforts to build up the frameworks of his own style and acquire a musical language of his own. His works enjoy such features as being free from the usual predefined formal frameworks, making use of improvisatory and free forms, making as little use as possible of techniques of musical prolongation, hence resulting in a particular type of conciseness, and an innate expression of the very essences of Iranian music. In fact, the issue of form in its traditional and classical interpretation, in tonal and even post-tonal music, embodies kinds of rather mechanical and mathematical developmental techniques, but in the works of Iman Vaziri particular types of development techniques inspired by Persian classical music are manifested that are the results of his deep and intuitional grasp of the ground-rules of phrasing formulations in Persian classical music. There have been performed various works by Vaziri in terms of Iranian and Western classical music inside and outside the country. Piano Quartet (2001) and Music on Ten Sonnets by Hafez (2000) are amongst his performed works. ...