Bijan Khadem-Missagh
Bijan Khadem-Missagh ( Persian :بیژن خادم میثاق; * October 26, 1948 in Tehran ) is an Austrian violinist , composer and conductor of Iranian descent. He is the founder and was artistic director of the Allegro Vivo International Chamber Music Festival until 2016 .
Live and act
Origin and education
Khadem-Missagh was born into a family of musicians in Tehran , the capital of Iran , and grew up in Vienna since 1958 . He studied first with his father Ata Khadem-Missagh (concertmaster of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra ) and then at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Professors Ernst Morawec, Edith Steinbauer, Franz Samohyl , Erwin Ratz , Heinrich Gattermeyer and Hans Swarovsky and graduated with distinction.
Concerts and festivals
Khadem-Missagh made an early debut as a violin soloist, which was followed by numerous international concert tours. In 1971 he became first concertmaster of the Lower Austrian Tonkünstler Orchestra . In the same year he won the Grand Prix at the International Chamber Music Competition in Colmar , France. Also in 1971 he founded the Eurasia Quartet and in 1977 the Tonkünstler Chamber Orchestra , later called Academia Allegro Vivo . In 1979 he founded Allegro Vivo , the international chamber music festival in Horn , where the summer academy takes place, where young musicians can take master classes. Allegro Vivo also sees itself as a “meeting place and an integral part of public life in the region”. From 1980 to 1990 the musician was artistic director of the Midsummer Music Festival in Umeå , Sweden. In 1981 he founded the Baden Beethoventage in Baden , of which he was artistic director until 1998. In 1997 he founded GlobArt - Connecting Worlds of Arts and Sciences in Krems, a foundation whose annual academy aims to be understood as a “meeting point for initiators and thought leaders from all over the world”; Khadem-Missagh is listed as an honorary president. From 1991 to 2000 he was artistic director of the Musik Forum Landegg in Switzerland.
Bijan Khadem-Missagh headed Allegro Vivo until 2016 when his son Vahid took over.
Numerous audio, radio and television recordings - especially cooperation with ORF and EMI Columbia - are evidence of a lively work.
Compositional creation
Bijan Khadem-Missagh's compositional work is characterized by its relationship to the concert music world. The years of collaboration with the singing group "Dawn-Breakers", which he founded in Vienna in 1970 and directed until 1992, are characteristic of his works. The human voice is given priority. His aim is the correspondence between word and music, whereby he is concerned with the selection of texts, which are primarily of a spiritual nature. Khadem-Missagh remains in the tonality, professes the traditions of existing cultures, but without denying the innovations of the 20th century. The boundaries between E and U music are deliberately crossed.
Publications
"The musical as a way of life" is the title of the book by Bijan Khadem-Missagh, which was published by Horizonte Verlag in 1998; with an afterword by Frederick Mayer (member of the Club of Rome). In 2003 it came out in Slovak.
In 1988 the book "Allegro Vivo" - 10 Years of the International Chamber Music Festival Austria was published.
In 1993, for the 15th anniversary of the festival, the book "The Waldviertel als Musikviertel" was published.
2003 "Fortissimo for Chamber Music" was published by the Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz.
2009 "On the move" Allegro Vivo
Teaching activities
From 1988 to 2010 Khadem-Missagh was Professor at the Joseph Matthias Hauer Conservatory in Wiener Neustadt .
His master classes for violin have been held in the summer academy of the Allegro Vivo Festival since 1979.
family
In 1975 he married Shirin, b. Nooreyezdan, a musician and music teacher who has been teaching ethics and character education for children in Baden since 1980. She died in 2016. The marriage had three children who are also professional musicians: son Vahid is a violinist, daughter Martha is a violinist and Dorothy is a pianist.
Since June 2018 he is married to Luise, b. Unterberger.
Dedications
Composers from various countries, including Karl Heinz Füssl , Lasse Thoresen, Alexander Vujic, Kurt Rapf , Karl Etti , Andreas Baksa, Alexander Rahbari, Heinrich Gattermeyer , Ulf-Diether Soyka , Robert Stiegler, Leo Butterer , Franz Thürauer and Herbert Zagler, dedicated Khadem- Missagh works.
Composers of commissioned works and world premieres as part of Allegro Vivo
- 1977 Alexander (Ali) Rahbari
- 1988 Kurt Rapf, Andreas Baksa
- 1992 Karl Heinz Füssl
- 1993 Weijie Gao
- 1994 Gottfried von One
- 1996 Robert Stiegler, Peter Hrncirik, Michael Neunteufel, Ulf-Dieter Soyka
- 1997 Andreas Etlinger, Michael Salomon, Leopold Butterer, Silvia Sommer, Gwendolyn Watson
- 1998 Heinrich Gattermeyer, Ladislav Lesko / Oto Vrhovnik
- 1999 Kurt Rapf, Reza Najfar
- 2000 Peter Hrncirik, Michael Salomon
- 2001 Wolfgang Mayer, Leopold Butterer
- 2002 Werner Schulze
- 2003 Ulrich Küchl, Robert Stiegler, Tolib Shakhidi
- 2005 Emanuel Schulz, Peter Hrncirik
- 2006 Markus Pfandler, Kornel Thomas
- 2007 Astrid Spitznagel, Silvia Sommer, Perikles Liakakis, Helmut Scherner
- 2014 Flora Marlene Geißelbrecht
Awards and honors
- 1987: Culture Promotion Prize of the City of Baden
- 1991: The CD "Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante, Divertimenti" was recognized by the trade magazine "Manual" as the best production of the Mozart year
- 1991: Diploma of Honor from the Dushanbe Opera House, Tadjikistan
- 1993: Silver medal for services to the federal state of Lower Austria
- 1994: Culture Prize of the City of Baden
- 1998: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
- 1999: Golden badge of honor of the Altenburg community
- 2001: Albert Schweitzer Medal of Honor for Science and Art
- 2003: Honor plaque of the city of Horn
- 2004: Professional title Professor
- 2008: Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the State of Lower Austria
- 2014: Great Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Federal State of Lower Austria
- 2014: NÖN Leopold, category culture as artist of the year
- 2019: Gold Medal of Honor from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna for special services to the arts represented by the mdw
- 2019: Transparent Leopold of the federal state of Lower Austria
The musician is highly valued for his artistic work and for his social and humanitarian commitment across countries.
literature
- Piotr Szalsza : Khadem-Missagh, Bijan. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5
- The rich discography is complemented by publications of books:
- "International Chamber Music Festival Austria - Allegro Vivo" (1988)
- "Allegro Vivo - The Waldviertel as a music quarter" (1993)
- "The musical as a way of life" (Horizonte Verlag 1998)
- "Fortissimo for Chamber Music" (Library of the Province 2003)
- "Zivot latey s hudbou" - "The musical as a way of life" was published in 2004 in Bratislava in Slovak and used in the most important music institutions and schools in Slovakia.
- "Allegro Vivo in Motion" (2009)
Web links
- International Chamber Music Festival Allegro Vivo
- TED speech (TEDx Bratislava): Khadem-Missagh, B .: Music as a Key to understanding Reality on YouTube
- Listening to each other relaxed , in Die Presse online, July 4, 2013
- Bijan Khadem-Missagh at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rupert Kornell: Festival founder: “I'm grateful and humble!” Allegro Vivo, interview. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten . August 5, 2016. Retrieved August 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Allegro Vivo - Mission Statement , accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ↑ GlobArt - Thinking workshop for questions about the future , accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ^ Vahid Khadem-Missagh. CV Vahid Khadem-Missagh. Retrieved September 24, 2017 .
- ↑ CDs in the ORF shop ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ^ Mourning for Shirin Khadem-Missagh. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten . May 2, 2016. Retrieved August 23, 2016 .
- ↑ see CD Vivaldi 4 Jahreszeiten at hbdirect.com ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ^ Vahid and Dorothy Khadem-Missagh (2012) on YouTube. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 21, 2014 ; accessed on January 4, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 on page 1174 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Khadem-Missagh, Bijan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian violinist, conductor and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran |