Alireza Motevaseli (

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علیرضا متوسلی born 9 February 1992) is an

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musician.

Early life

He was born in

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and earned a Music M.A. from the Art University of Tehran as well as a B.A Orchestral conducting. He is also a composer, bassoonist and

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. He began studying music by playing bassoon in 2002 at the Television & Radio of the Islamic Republic of Iran (

IRIB The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB; fa, صدا و سيمای جمهوری اسلامی ايران, ''Sedā va Sīmā-ye Jomhūri-ye Eslāmi-ye Īrān'', , formerly called National Iranian Radio and Television until the Iranian rev ...

) Music School. He studied bassoon performance with masters such as Terry B. Ewell (US), Alireza Sheibani and Taghi Zarrabi,.

Career

After graduating from music school, he worked with some of the best-known orchestras in Iran, such as

Tehran Symphony Orchestra The Tehran Symphony Orchestra (TSO, fa, ارکستر سمفونیک تهران), founded in 1933, is Iran's oldest and largest symphony orchestra. It was founded as the ''Municipality Symphony Orchestra'' by Gholamhossein Minbashian, before enteri ...

, Iran National Orchestra, IRIB Symphony Orchestra, and many others. As a bassoon soloist with Maestro

Shahrdad Rohani Shahrdad Rohani, also known as Shardad Rohani ( fa, شهرداد روحانی, born 27 May 1954) is an Iranian-American composer, violinist/pianist, and conductor. His style is contemporary and he is well known for composing and conducting classi ...

and the

, he performed Sinfonia Concertante K297b from W.A.Mozart at

Vahdat Hall The Vahdat Hall ( fa, تالار وحدت – ''Tālār e Vahdat'' means "Unity Hall"), formerly the Roudaki Hall ( fa, تالار رودکی – ''Tālār-e Rudaki''), is a performing arts complex in Tehran, Iran. History Around the 1950s and 1 ...

. In late 2016, Motevaseli started to translate a series of videos about bassoon education into Persian.

Bassoon playing

He worked with

as a principal bassoonist, led by

Shahrdad Rouhani Shahrdad Rohani, also known as Shardad Rohani ( fa, شهرداد روحانی, born 27 May 1954) is an Iranian-American composer, violinist/pianist, and conductor. His style is contemporary and he is well known for composing and conducting clas ...

Riccardo Muti Riccardo Muti, (; born 28 July 1941) is an Italian conductor. He currently holds two music directorships, at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and at the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini. Muti has previously held posts at the Maggio Musicale ...

Alexander 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 Op ...

, Alexander Rudin, Mark Stevenson, Nasir Heidarian,

Nader Mashayekhi Nader Mashayekhi ( fa, نادر مشایخی; born November 26, 1958 in Tehran) is an Iranian composer. From 2006 to July 2007 he was conductor of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra. He is the son of Jamshid Mashayekhi. Mashayekhi studied under Roma ...

, Nader MortezaPour, Orwell Erdinç and Domina Jurana. and also had a collaboration with Mediant Trio led by Alvin Avanessian, as well as with other orchestra, including: IRIB Symphony Orchestra, led by the late Mohammad Biglari Pour. The Parisian orchestra led by Aidin men Tehran Chamber Orchestra, led by

. Municipal Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Mohammad Hossein Hamidi.

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Orchestra, led by (Nader Abbassi _Arash Amini). Iran

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and Chorus under Alireza Shafaghi Nezhad.

Composer

Motevaseli won First Prize of "

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" Gyumri International Music Festival 2017 from the

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& Municipality of Yerevan and the jury from

Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan ( hy, Երևանի Կոմիտասի անվան պետական կոնսերվատորիա), also known as Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (YKSC) or Yerevan State Conservatory (YSC), is a state-owned college ...

. By the decision of the board chair of Seattle Symphony to support the seven countries whose citizens were banned from traveling to the US, a performance was held to support those countries. Motevaseli participated in this concert as an Iranian composer and was the youngest composer to be selected. The concert opened with his composition Fantasia for

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and Accordion. His Fantasia has been acknowledged and performed by

Seattle Symphony The Seattle Symphony is an American orchestra based in Seattle, Washington. Since 1998, the orchestra is resident at Benaroya Hall. The orchestra also serves as the accompanying orchestra for the Seattle Opera. History Beginnings The orchestr ...

to celebrate Asia

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competition on January 28th, 2016. At Fadjr International Music festival he won first prize of the Subjective Music Composition.

References

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