Alireza Mashayekhi

Alireza Mashayekhi is an Iranian musician, composer and conductor. He is one of the first composers representing avant-garde, modern and contemporary music written by a composer in Iran. He is also a pioneer of electroacoustic music in Iran.[1]

Alireza Mashayekhi
Alireza Mashayekhi at the 30th Fajr International Music Festival, 19 February 2015
Background information
BornTehran
GenresContemporary classical music Persian symphonic music
Occupation(s)Musician, conductor, composer
Websitewww.alirezamashayekhi.com

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.[2]

Career
Alireza Mashayekhi at the 30th Fajr International Music Festival

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,[3] 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.[4] 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.

Musical language

Mashayekhi's music circulates between a range of styles and genres, from classical compositions inspired by Persian rhythms and Iranian folk music that incorporate meditated repetition and polyphony, to atonal compositions, to works for tape and live electronics that combine traditional Iranian and Western instruments. Mashayekhi calls his compositional practice "Meta-X,"[5] referring to the sonic multiplicities present in his work (as contradictions of tonal/atonal, improvised/pre-defined, Persian/non-Persian)[6] that unify within a single musical piece.

Works

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[7]
  • An Old Fashioned Symphony for Computer (Symphony No. 3), Op. 76[8]
  • Symphony No. 4 (Zagros), Op. 103
  • Symphony No. 5 (Persian), Op. 112
    • National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, conducted by Vladimir Sirenko[10]
  • 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[11]
  • Happy Electronic Sounds[12]
  • Ravi-Azar-Kimia music Institute
    • White Cactus

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

See also

Notes
  1. Gluck, Bob. "CEC — eContact! 14.4 — A New East-West Synthesis: Conversations with Iranian composer Alireza Mashayekhi by Bob Gluck". CEC | Canadian Electroacoustic Community. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
  2. See Bob Gluck, "A New East-West Synthesis: Conversations with Iranian Composer Alireza Mashayekhi".
  3. Ibid.
  4. "Ata Ebtekar". Discogs. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
  5. "Celebration: New CD by the Persian Avant-Garde composer Alireza Mashayekhi". www.payvand.com. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
  6. "This Weekend's Kids & Family Activities in Bronx". www.nymetroparents.com. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
  7. Shahrzad (CD). Tehran: Tehran University. 2004.
  8. Symphony No. 3 (CD). Tehran: Hermes Records. 2007.
  9. Symphony No. 4 (CD). Tehran: Music Center of Hozeh Honari. 2007.
  10. Symphony No. 5 (CD). Tehran: Music Center of Hozeh Honari. 2009.
  11. Music for Piano (CD). Tehran: Hermes Records. 2004.
  12. Happy Electronic Sounds (CD). Tehran: Musical Center of Hozeyeh Honari. 2005.

References
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