Bijan Mortazavi (Persian: بیژن مرتضوی), born on November 16, 1957 in Babol, Iran, is a popular Iranian violinist, singer and songwriter.
Born in the city of Babol, capital of Babol County, Iran, Mortazavi studied music in Tehran. He was trained in improvisation, orchestration, arrangement, quarter tone technique, and dastgah by various well-known violinists in Iran.
Mortazavi started learning the violin under the supervision of Masoud Namazian when he was three years old. At the age of seven, he started playing the piano, guitar, percussion, and folk string instruments such as oud, tar, and santur.
Mortazavi took violin lessons from Ali Tajvidi, Parviz Yahaghi, Habibollah Badiei and Jahangir Kamian.
Mortazavi won his first prize at the age of eleven in a national music contest among students of all ages in Iran. He was fourteen when he conducted a 32-person orchestra, performing his own compositions and arrangements at the Ramsar Summer Camp in Iran.