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Anjelika Akbar (Born as Anjelika Rosenbaum in 1969 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan) is a Turkish professional musician/pianist. She began playing piano at the age of 3 and writing songs as well as performing on the stage at the age of 5. She is the only child of a musician and philosopher father of Jewish heritage and a musician mother of Turkish descent and nationality. She studied for eleven (11) years at Tashkent's National Uspensky Music School. In 1993 she became a Turkish citizen and received her Master's degree from the Hacettepe National Conservatory in Ankara. She was an instructor (1997-1999) at...

Ali Akbar Khan (14 April 1922 – 18 June 2009) was a Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana school, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod. Trained as a classical musician and instrumentalist by his father, Allauddin Khan, Khan also composed several classical ragas and film scores. He established a music school in Calcutta in 1956, and the Ali Akbar College of Music in 1967, which moved with him to the USA and is now based in San Rafael, California, with a branch in Basel, Switzerland. Khan was instrumental in popularizing Indian classical music in the West, both...

Ali-Akbar Morādi (Persian: علی‌اکبر مرادی) is a well known Iranian-Kurdish musician and composer and is the leading Tanbur player of Kurdistan, Iran. He was born in 1957 in Gooran, Kermānshāh, Iran. Moradi began playing Tanbur at the age of seven. At age of 12, Moradi began studying with Tanbur masters such as Mirza Sayyed Ali Kafashyan, Kaki Allah Morad Hamidi, Sayyed Vali Hosseini and Mahmoud Alavi. He learned the Kurdish maqam repertoire. He was 30 years old when he completed the entire 72 maqams of Tanbur and became a master of Tanbur. Moradi's professional career began in 1971 as a...