Alisher Latif-Zade

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Alisher Latif-Zade ( Tajik Алишер Латифзода , Alisher Latifsoda ; born June 2, 1962 in Dushanbe , Tajik SSR ) is a Tajik composer .

Latif-Zade studied violin and composition from 1980 to 1985 at the Moscow Conservatory with Alexander Pirumov . After completing his studies, he became a member of the Soviet Composers' Union . He became internationally known with the Oriental Sketch for saxophone and piano, which was premiered in 1989 at the concerts of Tajik composers in Schwedt and Angermünde. In the same year his Humoresque for wind quintet was played at the Festival of Young Composers from the USSR and the USA in Kislovodsk .

Since then, Latif-Zadeh's works have been part of the repertoire of international music competitions and concerts in Europe, the USA, Central and East Asia and Australia. In 1990 he attended a course at the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart . From 1993 to 2003 he lived in Uzbekistan and taught arrangement, improvisation and score reading at the Tashkent Conservatory . In 2003 he was invited to the National Conservatory of Kazakhstan as a teacher of composition, music theory and orchestration . He has lived in the USA since 2004.

Since 2000 Latif-Zadeh has been involved in Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Project , for which he composed two pieces. His work encompasses the most diverse genres, from song to symphony and from piano pieces to compositions for jazz ensembles to those for double symphony orchestra. Stylistically, he combines Tajik music with jazz and new music .

Works

  • Humoresque for wind quintet, 1986
  • Oriental Sketch for saxophone and piano, 1989
  • Monologue-Fantasy for flute solo, 1989
  • Apocalypse for 21 percussionists, 1991
  • Cross and Crescent , Trio, 1997
  • Do not weep , Elegy for two guitars, 2001
  • Liber Scriptus for piano and chamber orchestra, 2001
  • Tolerance , 2002
  • Al Zikr for piano and chamber orchestra, 2002
  • Circles of time , octet, 2003
  • Heaven's Voice
  • Humoresque for flute choir, 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Latif-Zade, Alisher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tajik composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Dushanbe