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Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency, Iran
Sept 28 2005
Tjeknavorian Commemorates Mozart in Iran
Photo: Loris Tjeknavorian is appointed to commemorate the 250th
anniversary of Mozart in Iran.
Tehran 28 September 2005 (CHN) -- Loris Tjeknavorian is appointed by
Peter Marboe, secretary of the International Mozart Festival to
perform for the 250th anniversary of the great Austrian composer,
Mozart, in Tehran.
27th of January 2006 is the 250th birthday of Mozart. Every year his
birthday is celebrated with concerts, operas, and special festivals
around the world. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 -
December 5, 1791) is among the most significant and enduringly
popular composers of European classical music. His enormous output
includes works that are widely acknowledged as pinnacles of
symphonic, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. Mozart himself
is universally recognized as a musical genius, having learnt to
compose at the age five and showing an encyclopedic grasp of every
musical form of his time despite having lived only for 35 years.
For his 2006 birthday, Loris Tjeknavorian, world-renown Iranian
musician, has been appointed by Peter Marboe, secretary of the Mozart
Foundation and his International Festival, to perform in
commemoration of Mozart in Tehran, Iran.
`With the cooperation of Iran- Austria Cultural Center and the
Roodaki Center in Iran, we, alongside other countries of the world,
will perform a concert in Vahdat Hall for the commemoration of the
250th celebration of this great composer,' said Tjeknavorian to CHN.
However, as Tjeknavorian explained, since the birthday of this
musician coincides with the mournful days of Imam Hossein (the third
Imam of Shiite Muslims)'s martyrdom, the ceremony will be held on the
day of Mozart's death, 5th of December, in Iran.
Loris Tjeknavorian was born in Iran in 1937. After studying violin
and piano at the Tehran Conservatory of Music, he studied composition
at the Vienna Music Academy where, in 1961, he graduated with honors.
Shortly after his graduation four of his piano compositions and his
ballet Fantastique were published by Doeblinger in Vienna.
>From 1961 to 1963 Tjeknavorian taught music theory at the Tehran
Conservatory of Music. At the same time, he was appointed director of
the National Music Archives in Tehran and was in charge of collecting
and researching traditional Iranian folk -music and national
instruments. In 1963, back in Austria, Prof. Carl Orff granted him a
scholarship, which allowed him to reside in Salzburg and to complete
his opera "Rostam and Sohrab".
Tjeknavorian has conducted international orchestras throughout the
world: in Austria, UK, USA, Canada, Hungary, Copenhagen, Iran,
Finland, USSR, Armenia, Thailand, Hong Kong, South Africa, Denmark,
Israel, etc. His own compositions have been performed by major
orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the London
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Halle Orchestra, the Philharmonic
Orchestra Helsinki, the American Symphony Orchestra in New York, the
Tehran Symphony Orchestra, the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, the
Haifa Symphony Orchestra, the Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the London
Percussion Virtuosies, the Strasbourg Percussion Ensemble and English
Chamber Orchestra, etc.
http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5707&section=2
Sept 28 2005
Tjeknavorian Commemorates Mozart in Iran
Photo: Loris Tjeknavorian is appointed to commemorate the 250th
anniversary of Mozart in Iran.
Tehran 28 September 2005 (CHN) -- Loris Tjeknavorian is appointed by
Peter Marboe, secretary of the International Mozart Festival to
perform for the 250th anniversary of the great Austrian composer,
Mozart, in Tehran.
27th of January 2006 is the 250th birthday of Mozart. Every year his
birthday is celebrated with concerts, operas, and special festivals
around the world. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 -
December 5, 1791) is among the most significant and enduringly
popular composers of European classical music. His enormous output
includes works that are widely acknowledged as pinnacles of
symphonic, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. Mozart himself
is universally recognized as a musical genius, having learnt to
compose at the age five and showing an encyclopedic grasp of every
musical form of his time despite having lived only for 35 years.
For his 2006 birthday, Loris Tjeknavorian, world-renown Iranian
musician, has been appointed by Peter Marboe, secretary of the Mozart
Foundation and his International Festival, to perform in
commemoration of Mozart in Tehran, Iran.
`With the cooperation of Iran- Austria Cultural Center and the
Roodaki Center in Iran, we, alongside other countries of the world,
will perform a concert in Vahdat Hall for the commemoration of the
250th celebration of this great composer,' said Tjeknavorian to CHN.
However, as Tjeknavorian explained, since the birthday of this
musician coincides with the mournful days of Imam Hossein (the third
Imam of Shiite Muslims)'s martyrdom, the ceremony will be held on the
day of Mozart's death, 5th of December, in Iran.
Loris Tjeknavorian was born in Iran in 1937. After studying violin
and piano at the Tehran Conservatory of Music, he studied composition
at the Vienna Music Academy where, in 1961, he graduated with honors.
Shortly after his graduation four of his piano compositions and his
ballet Fantastique were published by Doeblinger in Vienna.
>From 1961 to 1963 Tjeknavorian taught music theory at the Tehran
Conservatory of Music. At the same time, he was appointed director of
the National Music Archives in Tehran and was in charge of collecting
and researching traditional Iranian folk -music and national
instruments. In 1963, back in Austria, Prof. Carl Orff granted him a
scholarship, which allowed him to reside in Salzburg and to complete
his opera "Rostam and Sohrab".
Tjeknavorian has conducted international orchestras throughout the
world: in Austria, UK, USA, Canada, Hungary, Copenhagen, Iran,
Finland, USSR, Armenia, Thailand, Hong Kong, South Africa, Denmark,
Israel, etc. His own compositions have been performed by major
orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the London
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Halle Orchestra, the Philharmonic
Orchestra Helsinki, the American Symphony Orchestra in New York, the
Tehran Symphony Orchestra, the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, the
Haifa Symphony Orchestra, the Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the London
Percussion Virtuosies, the Strasbourg Percussion Ensemble and English
Chamber Orchestra, etc.
http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5707&section=2