Jalal Zolfonun
| Jalal Zolfonun | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 6, 1937 Abadeh, Iran |
| Died | March 18, 2012 (aged 74) Karaj, Iran |
| Genres | Persian music |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, Setar player |
| Instruments | Setar |
| Years active | 1967–2012 |
Jalal Zolfonun (sometimes spelt or pronounced Jalal Zoufonoun, Persian: جلال ذوالفنون ; 1937 – March 18, 2012), was a master of the setar, as well a composer and teacher of Persian music.
Jalal Zolfonun was born in Abadeh, Fars, Iran, and received his earliest musical training from his father, Habib Zoufonoun, and his older brother, Mahmoud Zoufonoun on the tar.
At the age of 13, Zolfonun enrolled the National School for Iranian Music to study musical theory, composition and technique under Ruhollah Khaleghi and Musa Khan Maroufi. While he immediately fell in love with setar, the instrument was not taken seriously in those times. He instead decided to study the tar, while also learning the violin from his brother Mahmoud Zoufonoun.
In 1967, Jalal Zolfonun was accepted into the faculty of the fine arts department of Tehran University, where he would further study the setar with Master Noor Ali Boroumand and Dariush Safvat.
From then on, he dedicated himself to the delicate instrument. He began combining the techniques of the older masters of Setar (an Iranian instrument with four metal strings) with his own ingenuity and mystic sensitivity. For the first time, with Iran's leading classical singer Shahram Nazeri, he founded an ensemble composed of only Setar players. Later on in 1980s, Zolfonoun and Nazeri's compositions were released in two best-seller albums one of which Gol-e Sadbarg (which means, One hundred-petalled Rose), is indisputably the best selling album of classical Iranian music ever.
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