 Claudio Abbado, and Zubin Mehta studied in the same class under Swarowsky.Maestro Sanjari also studied Persian Classical music under Ali-Naqi Vaziri.After studying violin at the conservatory, Sanjari was the conductor of Tehran Conservatory Students Orchestra and the director of the Conservatory for a short time in 1951. from 1960 until 1971 he was the permanent conductor of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, the longest in the history of orchestra.