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Name
  
Alireza Mashayekhi


Role
  
Musician

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Genres
  
Persian symphonic music

Occupation(s)
  
Musician, conductor, composer

Albums
  
Terrestrial, Mashayekhi: Gardens of Neyshabur

Similar People
  
Nader Mashayekhi, Ata Ebtekar, Shahin Farhat, Hossein Dehlavi, Ahmad Pejman

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Alireza Mashayekhi (born 1940) is a notable Iranian musician, composer and conductor. He is one of the first Iranian composers of Persian Symphonic Music.

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Early life

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Mashayekhi was born in Tehran in 1940. His first teachers were Lotfollah Mofakham Payan (Iranian music), Hossein Nasehi (composition) and Ophelia Kombajian (piano). He then studied in Vienna with Hanns Jelinek and Karl Schiske.

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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

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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 Ebtekar & The Iranian Orchestra for New Music Performing Works of Alireza Mashayekhi “Ornamental”. Mashayekhi granted Ebtekar full creative freedom to work with the Iranian Orchestra for New Music to arrange and transform his compositions.

Albums

  • Mahoor Institute of Culture and Art, CD-145
  • Symphony No. 2 “Tehran”, op. 57
    Tehran Symphony Orchestra, Farhad Meshkat cond., live at Vahdat Hall, Tehran, Mar. 1977
  • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, op. 96
    Tehran Symphony, Edo Mičič cond., Maziar Zahiroddini violin, live at Vahdat Hall, Tehran, Oct. 1998
  • “Nous ne verrons jamais les jardins de Nishapour”, op. 56
    NIRT Chamber Orchestra, Ivo Malec cond., Pari Barkeshli pianos, live at City Theatre Tehran, Tehran, Apr. 1978
  • Shahrzad: Nine Movements for Piano, Op. 115
  • Piano by Farimah Ghavamsadri
  • An Old Fashioned Symphony for Computer (Symphony No. 3), Op. 76
  • Symphony No. 4 (Zagros), Op. 103
  • National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, conducted by Vladimir Sirenko
  • Symphony No. 5 (Persian), Op. 112
  • National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, conducted by Vladimir Sirenko
  • Symphony No. 8 for Piano and Orchestra
  • Piano: Farimah Ghavamsadri; National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, conducted by Vladimir Sirenko
  • Music for Piano
  • Piano: Farimah Ghavamsadri
  • Happy Electronic Sounds
  • Ravi-Azar-Kimia music Institute
  • White Cactus
  • Books

  • Modal Counterpoint
  • Tonal Counterpoint: Bach Composition
  • Harmony: Classical Composition
  • All Those Years without Memory
  • References

    Alireza Mashayekhi Wikipedia