Dastan Ensemble

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{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Dastan ensemble

| image = Dastan Ensemble concert with Salar Aghili (5).jpg

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| caption = Dastan concert - June 2011

| image_size = 260px

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| origin = Iran

| genre = Persian music

| years_active = 1991–present

| label = Ava Sun

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| current_members = Hossein Behroozinia (barbat)
Hamid Motebassem (Tar and Setar)
Pejman Hadadi (Percussion)
Saeed Farajpouri (Kamancheh)
Behnam Samani (Percussion)

| past_members = Sima Bina
Salar Aghili
Shahram Nazeri
Iraj Bastami
Kayhan Kalhor
Homayoun Shajarian
Pouya Saraei

}}

Dastan Ensemble is an Iranian classical music ensemble.{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/17/arts/music-review-shush-sufi-melodies-presented.html |title=MUSIC REVIEW; Shush! Sufi Melodies Presented |last=Watrous |first=Peter |date=17 December 1997 |work=The New York Times |page=6 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228132040/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/17/arts/music-review-shush-sufi-melodies-presented.html |archivedate=28 December 2014 |url-status=dead}} Founded in 1991 by tar player Hamid Motabassem,[http://iran-daily.com/1385/2536/html/art.htm Iran Daily - Arts & Culture - 04/13/06] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061021205854/http://iran-daily.com/1385/2536/html/art.htm |date=21 October 2006 }} Dastan has performed concerts throughout the world.

Hamid Motebassem founded it with musicians Morteza Ayan, Mohammad Ali Kiani Nejad, Kayhan Kalhor, and Ardeschir Kamkar.

Since 2000, the current main members are Saeed Farajpouri, Hossein Behroozi-Nia, Pejman Hadadi, Behnam Samani.

Many Iranian artists contribute with recordings or concerts, such as Parisa, Homayoun Shadjarian, Sima Bina, Iraj Bastami, Bijan Kamkar or Shahram Nazeri.

In 2003, they received the award "Prix du disque" from the Académie Charles-Cros in the field of world music for their album Shoorideh.