Aga Khan Music Programme Dariush Talai, an Iranian tar and setar player, musicologist, composer, and educator, was recognised at the 2019 Aga Khan Music Awards for his exceptional commitment to transmitting the classical performance tradition of the tar through his diverse activities as an artist, educator, and scholar.⁣ ⁣ Born in 1953, he began his studies of traditional Persian music with masters of radif, the canonical corpus of melodic models that constitute the core of the Persian classical