Mohammad-Reza Darvishi (Persian: محمدرضا درویشی; born 1955) is an Iranian musician, researcher, and author of Encyclopedia of the Musical Instruments of Iran, a Klaus P. Wachsmann Prize-winner book about Iranian musical instruments.
A selection of M. R. Darvishi's film music
2012, Movie music for Parinaz
2009, Movie music for Mizak (meaning: My mother)
2009, Movie music for The White Meadows
2009, Movie music for When we are all asleep (Persian: Vaghti hame khabim)
2008, Movie music for The Green Fire
2008, Movie music for Lady of the Roses (documentary)
2006, Movie music for Crossing the Dust
2006, Movie music for Slowly... (Persian: Be ahestegi...)
2006, Movie music for The talking (Persian: Ghali-e sokhangu) (documentary short)
2004, Movie music for Stray Dogs
2003, Movie music for Joy of Madness (documentary)
2003, Movie music for Two Angels
2003, Movie music for Osama
2003, Movie music for At Five in the Afternoon
2002, Movie music for 11'09"01 September 11(segment "Iran")
2002, Movie music for The Afghan Alphabeth (Persian: Alefba-ye Afghan) (documentary)
2001, Movie music for Kandahar
2001, Movie music for The Unfinished Song
2000, Movie music for The Day I Became a Woman
2000, Movie music for Blackboards
1998, Movie music for Bag of Rice (Persian: Kise-ye Berenj)
Music cassette and CD
Some of his Cassettes and CDs are:
Mazandarani Music, for song and orchestra, song by Abolhassan Khoshroo and Nourolah Alizadeh.
Winter, for song and symphonic orchestra, song by Shahram Nazeri
The season of flower, for song and symphonic orchestra, song by Iraj Bastami
The aster dome, for song and orchestra, song by Mohammad Reza Shajariyan (a joint work with Parviz Meshkatian)
The soul of the lovers, for song and orchestra, song by Mohammad Reza Shajariyan (a joint work with Parviz Meshkatian)
Music album of seven thrones (A collection of 4 cassettes from the music of Iran regions along with the book)
Music album of north of Khorasan (A collection of 3 cassettes from the music of north of Khorasan along with the book)
Mirror and song, music album (A collection of 28 cassettes from the melody and religious music of regions of Iran along with the book)
Bag of rice: Music from the movies: “Bag of rice”, “The song of the Nimvar Field” and “Karde”, 1999
Music from the movies: “The Blackboard” & “The day I became a woman”, 2001
Some of his books are:
20 Fars local songs, Harp: 1984, Mahoor: 1994
Seven thrones (A collection of articles about the music of regions of Iran), Tehran, Art Center, 1991
A view on the west (A discussion about the influence of the western music on Iranian music), Tehran, Mahoor: 1994
Tradition and cultural alienation in the music of Iran, Tehran, Art Center, 1994
An introduction on acquaintance with the music of the regions of Iran (First book: Hormozgan, Boushehr, Khouzestan), Tehran, Art Center, 1994
Norouz-singing (Nourouzkhani), (Norouz and Spring songs from different regions of Iran), Tehran, Arvin, 1996
About literature and art (The discussion between Naser Hariri and Mohammad Reza Darvishi), Tehran, Avishan, Goharzad, 1994
Mirror and Song (A collection of articles about the music of regions of Iran), Tehran, Art Center, 1998
In the memory of Eghbal (Prelude for piano), Tehran, Harp (Chang), 1984
Morning Melody (Trio for 2 clarinets and piano), Tehran, Arvin, 1997
Music & Trance: The Govati ceremony citations of Balouchestan, Tehran, Mahour, 1999
Encyclopedia of Iranian music instruments, Tehran, Mahoor, 2001
From between the songs and silences, a selection of dialogues and writings, Tehran, Mahour, 2001
October 2002 - SEM’s (Society for Ethnomusicology) award for the best publication of the year on musical instruments, granted by Bruno Nettl, for The Encyclopaedia of the Iranina Musical Instruments, vol.1
2000, The music for Kandahar (2001 film) (directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf) was nominated the best foreign film music, among the others, by Bonn biennial festival of film music, Germany.
2005, Nomination for achievement of UNESCO’s award for the greatest musician worldwide.
Leyli kojast, directed by Mohammad Shirvani, a documentary about Darvishi’s professional career on the occasion of his 2005 nomination for the UNESCO’s award for the greatest musician worldwide.
