Behrouz Jamali was born into a family of scientists and artists in Tabriz, Iran.  After moving to England with his family at the age of 5 he was already a multi lingual child with extra ordinary talking and communication skills. His first music activities started during his primary school years in Durham city where he started Recorder lessons and soon after his first group performance took place at Durham Cathedral. Under the special supervision of his parents his education expanded far beyond normal in his early school years and like other members of his family  he gradually stepped into the world of multi activism.

Upon his return to Iran parallel to his other studies he started Persian Classical music lessons in his hometown Tabriz with a number of renowned musicians such as Mohammad Akhavan (Tombak), Behrouz Afshari (Violin) and Western Classical music under Zaven Yedigarian (Violin) and many others.

While only a high school student he was granted an official permit as a Tombak instructor from Ministry of Culture and started teaching Tombak next to music legends like Ali Salimi the great master of Azerbaijani Tar and composer.  Being in such an environment in that age resulted in connecting with talented musicians and composers and some of them had major effects and influences in his music education already expanded from Western music to Persian music and Azeri music.

  Photo: Abbas Shirmohammadi 2001

As a result of such opportunities his music skills improved and he participated in number of concerts as performer, composer and music director. His compositions are as diverse as his instruments including pieces for solo instruments, chamber music arrangements and electronic music.

His endless passion for learning drove him through learning Persian calligraphy under Mr. Rasoul Jadidolislam and in order to understand the details of Persian classic Painting he studied Persian miniature as well as modern paining skills under supervision of skilled artists.

As a first student of his class during almost all of his school years he decided to continue his education in Civil Engineering and he graduated with a B.Sc. degree as a Civil Engineer combined with solid education in computer science and programming. His activities as an engineer are also diverse. Audio engineering and sound recording, application programming, Network designing, web programming to be just a few.

During his collage years parallel to every other artistic activity he participated in Mansour Hamidi's theater courses and along with taking acting lessons he has composed music for a number of  plays. He has also experienced 8mm cinematography and photography in his home studio and developed his skills in both writing film scripts and making and editing short movies.

Since moving to The United States "Washington DC" where he currently resides he continued his activities as an engineer and as an active artist. He has conducted master classes on Persian Classical music in some of the most prestigious Universities and schools in united states such as Julliard, Boise State University, Montgomery college and Middlebury collage to name a few. He is recently serving an IT company as "Director of  Network Engineering". Fundraising for MS-Society and talent promotion projects were two of  his most recent programs in USA as well as number of stage performances and music recordings. Behrouz calls himself           " A simple human searching for simple answers to simple questions".                                                                                                                                    Photo: Jalil Deydehvar 2007

His most recent performance took place at Yale center for British Arts with Persian Kamancheh Virtuoso Instrumentalist and Composer , Keyhan Kalhor.