Mohammad Reza Mortazavi is a virtuoso percussionist based in Berlin who performs solo concerts of his own compositions worldwide. At the age of six,he learned classical Persian percussion and  has been fascinated with the sounds of the tombak and daf ever since, which he connects with his personal approach to sound and movement. In this way, he understands himself not as creator of music, rather as someone whom the music flows through, reflecting his inner intuition. Mortazavi has revolutionized the traditional way of playing these instruments by developing and mastering more than thirty new striking and finger techniques, which cover a wide range of microtones and overtones that allow him to play polyrhythmic layers, differentiated melodies, and polyphonic compositions at the same time.