Ali Rahbari

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Ali Rahbari

Alexander "Ali" Rahbari ( Persian على رهبرى, DMG 'Alī-ye Rahbarī ; * May 26, 1948 in Tehran , Iran ) is an Iranian composer and conductor who has worked with more than 120 orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker .

biography

Rahbari studied violin and composition with Rahmatollah Badiee and Hossein Dehlavi at the Iranian National Music Conservatory (English Tehran Conservatory ). At the age of 17 he played violin with the Tehran Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Hossein Dehlavis. After completing his studies, he won a scholarship from the Iranian Ministry of Culture and applied for a subsequent study at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Gottfried von Eine , Hans Swarowsky and Karl Österreicher in order to perfect his artistic skills.

A few months after his return to Iran in 1973, he became director of the national music conservatory there and from 1974 to 1977 director of the Tehran music conservatory. During this time he founded the Iranian branch of the Jeunesses Musicales Orchestra with young Iranian musicians , of which he was music director and permanent conductor. He also conducted the Tehran Symphony Orchestra and the National Iranian Radio and Television Chamber Orchestra in the Talar-e Rudaki Hall as a guest conductor.

In 1977 he emigrated to Europe. In the same year he won first prize at the International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors and in 1978 the silver medal at the Geneva International Conducting Competition .

In the same year he recorded three LPs under the title Symphonic Seals from Persia with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, including works by great Iranian composers of the 20th century, such as Bijan & Manije by Hossein Dehlavi, Dance , Ballet-Impressionen and Rhapsodie by Ahmad Pejman , Sheherazade by Aminollah (Andre) Hossein , Iranian Suite by Houshang Ostovar , Persian Mysticism in G (Rahbari's own composition) and Mouvement Symphonique by Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh .

1979 can be regarded as one of the most important years in Rahbari's career: he was invited as a guest conductor to the Berlin Philharmonic and in 1980 he was Karajan's assistant at the Salzburg Easter Festival .

From 1988 to 1996 Rahbari was chief conductor of the Flemish Radio Orchestra (renamed the Brussels Philharmonic in 1998 ) and then from 1997 to 1999 music director of the Zagreb Philharmonic . From 2000 to 2004 he was chief conductor of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga.

In 2005 he returned to Iran and conducted Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Tehran Symphony Orchestra . The religiously conservative leadership of the country and Iran's newspapers therefore accused Rahbari of wanting to promote western values ​​in Iran. Resigned and in protest about the Iranian music industry, he turned his back on the country after a few months.

In 2009 he presented a new musical influenced by the ideas and rhythms of traditional Persian music .

In 2015 Rahbari was reappointed to the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, which had been dissolved in 2012, and was appointed chief conductor. After a year he resigned, citing the impossible working conditions in the country as the reason.

Selected compositions

  • Violin Concerto / Symphony Persane Nohe Khan (1967/72)
  • Persian Mysteries -in G-, for orchestra (1969)
  • Beirut , for flutes (1985)
  • Music For Human Rights , for orchestra (1980s)
  • EXTA $ Y The Musical ( dedicated to Giacomo Puccini ) (1995/96)
    • Part 1: Sister Angelica
    • Part 2: Mister Gianni
  • La Fuerza Flamenca , for choir and orchestra (2000)

See also

Web links

Commons : Ali Rahbari  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Jeunesse Musicale. Retrieved February 2, 2017 .
  2. ^ International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors. Retrieved February 2, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Geneva International Conducting Competition for Young Conductors. Retrieved February 2, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Alexander Rahbari. In: Pasión por la Música Málaga. (Spanish, term of office 2000 to 2004 in the text).
  5. ↑ Iran's Leader Bans Western Music . In: CBS News , December 19, 2005. 
  6. ^ Tehran's reborn symphony orchestra: an ovation before playing a note. In: The Guardian . April 6, 2015 (English).;
  7. ^ The conductor of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra resigns. In: Music Today. March 7, 2016 .;
personal data
SURNAME Rahbari, Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rahbari, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran