 The current conductor of TSO is Shardad Rohani

In the golden age of the orchestra, many notable musicians like Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern played with the orchestra.After the 1979 Iranian revolution clerics outlawed all pre-revolutionary music, hardline clerics say music comes between the faithful and God, and leads to an impure mind.As a result, the orchestra faced its darkest age, playing only a few concerts in the decade following the revolution.