(Guitars)

Hidayat was born into a musical family. He began his musical studies at the age of five and took up the guitar at twelve. He attended Capilano College and the University of British Columbia and has a degree in jazz guitar performance and music education. Along with performing western musical styles he is an accomplished Persian classical musician, composing and performing on the Tar (an Iranian lute). He has had the privilege of sharing the stage with such jazz artists as Kurt Elling, Cedar Walton, and Nnenna Freelon. When not on the road with Barrage he co-leads and composes/arranges for his middle-eastern fusion bands "Sangha" and the "Honari Family Ensemble".