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List Of Iranian Composers
This is a list of Iranian composers. ''See also full list of Iranian musicians and singers''. Classical/Traditional Persian composers *Abolhasan Saba *Ali-Naqi Vaziri *Ali Tajvidi *Ardavan Kamkar *Ardeshir Kamkar *Faramarz Payvar *Hamid Motebassem *Homayoun Khorram *Hossein Alizadeh *Hossein Dehlavi *Jalal Zolfonoun *Mahmoud Zoufonoun * Mohammad-Reza Darvishi *Mohammad Reza Lotfi *Mohammad Reza Shajarian *Mahyar Alizadeh *Mojtaba Mirzadeh *Mehdi Rajabian * Nima Aziminejad *Parviz Meshkatian *Saeed Farajpouri Contemporary Persian composers * Aftab Darvishi *Aida Shirazi *Ali Radman *Arshia Samsaminia *Ahmad Pejman *Ali Rahbari *Ali Ahmadifar *Alireza Mashayekhi *Alireza Motevaseli * Amin Honarmand *Anahita Abbasi *Ardavan Kamkar * Bahar Royaee * Behzad Abdi *Behzad Mirkhani *Behzad Ranjbaran *Faramarz Payvar *Fariborz Lachini * Fouzieh Majd * Golfam Khayam *Golnoush Khaleghi * Heshmat Sanjari * Hooshyar Khayam *Hormoz Farhat *Hossein Alizâdeh *Houshang Ostovar * Idin Samimi Mofakha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahyar Alizadeh
Mahyar Alizadeh ( fa, مهیار علیزاده ; born 5 January 1982) is an Iranian musician, composer, singer and Taar player. After graduating from Alborz High School, he continued his career in music university and after that, decided to study in foreign universities. First he entered Komitass Conservatory in Armenia. As it influenced his passion on music as he always quotes that his career as a musician is divided in two, before Armenia and after that. After two years studying music composition at Armenia Conservatory, he chose Vienna University as the next stop in mastering musicology. Then in 2009 he resumed recording his debut album in collaboration with Alireza Ghorbani, an album that was begun when he was in Armenia. This album, named ''Autumn on Fire'' and labelled under Avay-e Barbad production, became the best selling Persian music album in 2011–2012. These successes make Mahyar Alizadeh and Alireza Ghorbani's cooperation last till today in various albums and conc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alireza Mashayekhi
Alireza Mashayekhi is an Iranian musician, composer, conductor and academic. He is one of the first composers in Iran to represent avant-garde, modern and contemporary music. He is a pioneer of electroacoustic music in Iran. Early life Mashayekhi was born in Tehran in 1940. After graduating from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, he went to Utrecht, the Netherlands, to study electronic and computer music, and attended lectures by Gottfried Michael Koenig. Career In 1993, with cooperation of the pianist Farima Ghavam-Sadri, Mashayekhi founded the Tehran Contemporary Music Group. In 1995 he established the Iranian Orchestra for New Music, which released its first recording in 2002 on Hermes Records. In 2007, Sub Rosa (label) released ''Persian Electronic Music: Yesterday and Today 1966–2006'', a double-disc anthology that includes works by Mashayekhi and Ata Ebtekar. In 2009, Brandon Nickell’s Isounderscore label released the vinyl double LP ''Ata Ebteka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Ahmadifar
Ali Ahmadifar ( fa, علی احمدیفر, born 12 July 1976) is an Iranian composer, teacher and researcher. Book * Author of the book "Stylistics of Arvo Pärt music (Persian:سبک شناسی موسیقی آروو پارت)", published 2007. Works * "Where are you, o thou fairy?"(An Iranian variation) was performed by MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2006. * one of his works was performed by valid flute soloist Reza Najfar in 2008, Rasht. * "Minimove" (An Iranian variation for flute and strings) was performed by Camerata symphony orchestra led by Keyvan Mirhadi in 2008, Rasht. * "Bâng – e Robâb" was performed by the Avram ensemble in 2011. * Radio contemporary music program editor and writer in Iranian radio broadcast network culture, 1999-2000. * The founder and first conductor of Gilan sinfonietta orchestra and choir, performing concert at Vahdat Hall, September 2007. Lectures * Concepts and specification of Music * International Customary instruments and sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Rahbari
Ali (Alexander) Rahbari ( fa, علی رهبری; also Romanized as "Alī Rahbarī", ; born 1948) is an Iranian composer and conductor, who has worked with more than 120 European orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic and the Mariinsky Opera.BBC Persian">BBC Persian/ref> Life Born in Tehran on 26 May 1948, Rahbari studied violin and musical composition, composition with Rahmatollah Badiee and Hossein Dehlavi at the Persian National Music Conservatory. From the age of 17 he was a violinist at the Fine Arts Administration Orchestra No. 1 (conducted by Hossein Dehlavi). After receiving his violin diploma from the National Conservatory, he won a scholarship from the Iran Ministry of Culture and Art and moved to Austria. Rahabari continued his studies in composition and conducting at the Vienna Academy with Gottfried von Einem, Hans Swarovsky and Karl Österreicher. Some months after his return to Iran, in 1973 he became director of the Persian National Music Conservatory a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Pejman
Ahmad Pejman ( fa, احمد پژمان ; born 1935), also spelled as Ahmad Pezhman, is an Iranian classical composer who resides in the United States. Pejman is notable for his operatic and symphonic works. Biography Born in 1935 in Lar, Iran, Pejman was exposed to the sounds and rhythms of southern Iran from early childhood. In high school he started violin lessons with Heshmat Sanjari and music theory with Hossein Nassehi. As a young violinist with the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, he was awarded a scholarship to study composition at the Music Academy in Vienna. He studied composition with Thomas Christian David, Alfred Uhl, and Hans Jelineck, Friedrich Cerha As a first year student at the Academy, Pejman's compositions were performed by the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and his orchestral work ''Rhapsody'' was performed by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. In his third year as a student, he was commissioned to write the first Persian Opera ''Rustic Festival'' for the ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arshia Samsaminia
Arshia Samsaminia (born 1989) is an Iranian composer. Biography He studied contemporary composition at Sibelius Academy of Music in Finland, University of Gothenburg (Academy of Music and Drama) in Sweden, Universität der Künste Berlin in Germany, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre under the supervision of Helena Tulve, Malin Bång, etc. He has had composition and orchestrating projects, collaborations with Ensemble Modern, GEPO orchestra in Paris, Tbilisi Contemporary Ensemble, Omnibus contemporary Ensemble, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Aepex Contemporary Performance Sepia Ensemble Poland, Ensemble Garage Germany, etc. His audio-visual work "Railroading in the East/Metro Project" has been selected for ART & SCIENCE DAY 2016 in France Bourges,http://www.musinfo.fr/index.php/en/creation/art-science-days/art-science-days-2016/installations/ Railroading in the East/Metro Project. AEPEX CONTEMPORARY MUSIC in USA Michigan and International Computer Music Conference 2018 Daegu, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Radman
Ali Radman (born 20 June 1973) is an Iranian musician, composer, conductor, pedagogue and pianist. Life Ali Radman was born on 20 June 1973 in Tehran, Iran. He was introduced to a classical music foundation and basic theory topics of music by his father, Mohammad Hassan Radman, from early age. He was improving his knowledge of basic elements of music, piano playing, and the theory of Iranian music under the conservatory teachers’ supervision. At the same time, he was a sophomore in the field of electronics at Kerman University. In 1990, he was a member of UNIMA as a composer and in 1995, he was accepted as a bachelor student in the field of music at the Faculty of Fine Arts in university of Tehran. In composition, he is an art graduate of the school of Alireza Mashayekhi. Besides music composing, he improved his knowledge of Iranian music repertoire through Majid Kiani 's lessons, the basics of ethnomusicology through Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh. He acquired the techniques of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aida Shirazi
''Aida'' (or ''Aïda'', ) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 December 1871, in a performance conducted by Giovanni Bottesini. Today the work holds a central place in the operatic canon, receiving performances every year around the world; at New York's Metropolitan Opera alone, ''Aida'' has been sung more than 1,100 times since 1886. Ghislanzoni's scheme follows a scenario often attributed to the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, but Verdi biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz argues that the source is actually Temistocle Solera. Elements of the opera's genesis and sources Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, commissioned Verdi to write an opera to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal, but Verdi declined. However, Auguste Mariette, a French Egyptologist, proposed to Khedive Pasha a plot for a celebratory opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aftab Darvishi
Aftab ( fa, آفتاب ''âftâb'', meaning "sun" or properly "sunshine") is a surname and a masculine given name. Notable people with this given name * Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, Pakistani politician * Aftab Ahmed, several people * Aftab Ali, British Asian politician * Aftab Baloch, former Pakistani cricketer * Aftab Gul, former Pakistani cricketer * Aftab Habib, English cricketer * Aftab Jawaid, former squash player from Pakistan * Aftab Ahmad Khan, Pakistan Army Infantry officer * Aftab Ahmed Khan, Indian politician * Aftab Shaban Mirani, Pakistani politician * Aftab Pureval, American politician * Aftab Sachak, Afghan-born British actor * Aftab Iqbal Shamim Aftab Iqbal Shamim ( ur, ; born 16 February 1933 in Jhelum, Pakistan) is an Urdu language poet and an educator from Pakistan. Career Aftab Iqbal was born in Jhelum, Pakistan in 1933. Aftab Iqbal Shamim had served as a professor of English lit ..., Urdu-language poet * Aftab Shamshudeen, Guyanese-born cricketer {{Surn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saeed Farajpouri
Saeed Farajpouri, was born on February 20, 1961 in Sanadaj, Iran. He is a composer, performer and an instructor of a classical Iranian instrument called Kamancheh or Spike Fiddle. He started learning music at age 9 under Maestro Hassan Kamkar, and then learned the Iranian music repertoire (Radif) under Maestro Mohammad Reza Lotfi and the ensemble performance under the instruction of maestro Hossein Alizadeh He has performed at several ensembles such as: Shayda, Aref, Aava, Paivar and Dastan. He has instructed Kamancheh at Chavosh Music Center, Music Conservatory of Tehran, and several universities and art institutes inside and outside Iran. Saeed collaborated with Maestro Mohammad Reza Shajarian for more than three decades performing at many concerts inside and outside Iran and in albums such as Shab e Vasl, Ahang e Vafa, Rosvai e Del, Dastan, Aaram e jaan, Aaseman e Eshgh, and Del Shodegan. He also has several solo recordings such as: Kamancheh Album, Segah Homayoon, and Kur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parviz Meshkatian
Parviz Meshkatian (Persian: پرويز مشكاتيان; May 15, 1955 – September 21, 2009) was an Iranian musician, composer, researcher and university lecturer. Biography Born in Nishapur, Meshkatian entered the Tehran Academy of Arts, where he studied music theory and was introduced to ''radif'' (the Persian classical music repertoire) by the masters Nour Ali Boroumand, Dariush Safvat, Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh, and Mehdi Barkeshli. He focused on the ''radif'' of Mirza Abdollah for santur and setar. Meshkatian was one of the founding members of the Aref Ensemble, founded in 1977, as well as the Sheyda Ensemble. He was also one of the founding members of the Chavosh Artistic and Cultural Foundation. The Chavosh foundation has played a major role in the development of Iranian music for a few decades . Meshkatian toured Europe and Asia and regularly performed in countries such as France, Germany, England, Sweden, Netherlands, and Denmark. In the spring of 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
