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Alireza Mashayekhi

Alireza Mashayekhi

Alireza Mashayekhi has been played on NTS shows including Love Drain, with Development 2, Op.24 first played on 21 July 2015.

Alireza Mashayekhi (Born in Tehran 1940) is a notable Iranian musician, composer and conductor. He is one of the first Iranian composers who has pioneered Persian Symphonic music.

His first teachers were Lotfollah Mofakham Payan (Iranian music), Hossein Nasehi (Composition) and Ophelia Kombajian (Piano). He then pursued his passion in music in Vienna. His teachers in Vienna include Hanns Jelinek and Karl Schiske.

After completing his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, he went to Utrecht, the Netherlands, to pursue his study of electronic and computer music, which included attending lectures by Gottfried Michael König.

In 1993 with cooperation of the pianist Farima Ghavam-Sadri, Mashayekhi founded the Tehran Contemporary Music Group and in 1995 established the Iranian Orchestra for New Music. This orchestra alongside playing many concerts in Tehran, produced its first CD in 2002, which was released by Hermes Records.

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Alireza Mashayekhi

Alireza Mashayekhi has been played on NTS shows including Love Drain, with Development 2, Op.24 first played on 21 July 2015.

Alireza Mashayekhi (Born in Tehran 1940) is a notable Iranian musician, composer and conductor. He is one of the first Iranian composers who has pioneered Persian Symphonic music.

His first teachers were Lotfollah Mofakham Payan (Iranian music), Hossein Nasehi (Composition) and Ophelia Kombajian (Piano). He then pursued his passion in music in Vienna. His teachers in Vienna include Hanns Jelinek and Karl Schiske.

After completing his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, he went to Utrecht, the Netherlands, to pursue his study of electronic and computer music, which included attending lectures by Gottfried Michael König.

In 1993 with cooperation of the pianist Farima Ghavam-Sadri, Mashayekhi founded the Tehran Contemporary Music Group and in 1995 established the Iranian Orchestra for New Music. This orchestra alongside playing many concerts in Tehran, produced its first CD in 2002, which was released by Hermes Records.

Original source: Last.fm

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