Massoud Shaari was born in 1961 in Tehran , Iran. From the very childhood, he was deeply attached to Iranian music and started learning santur at the age of thirteen, taught by the lost artist Manijeh Alipour. After a while, he turned to learn setar, monitored by Dariush Tala'i and has continued playing it ever since. In 1982, he begun learning tar, taught by Mohammad Reza Lotfi, through whom he became acquainted with the art of Iranian traditional music systems (radif) and its mysteries.

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