Sadjad Pourghanad born December 22, 1981 is a Tar and Setar player, opera singer, Iranian journalist, founder of the Iranian Festival of Music-based Weblogs and Websites, and editor-in-chief of Harmony Talk, the online Persian journal on music. He started learning to play setar in 1998 under the supervision of Masoud Shaari and music theory under the supervision of Houshang Kamkar. His later instructors were masters including Hossein Dehlavi, Manouchehr Sahbaee, Keyvan Mirhadi, Shapour Rahimi and Ali Nourbakhsh.