Mahan Esfahani
Mahan Esfahani ( Persian ماهان اصفهانی; * 1984 in Tehran ) is an Iranian harpsichordist .
He received his first musical training on the piano from his father. He studied musicology and history at Stanford University . One of his teachers there was George Houle . Studies with Peter Watchorn in Boston and Zuzana Růžičková in Prague followed . He was the BBC's New Generation Artist from 2008 to 2010. In 2011 he played the first harpsichord solo recital in the history of the Proms in London . In 2015 he was named Newcomer of the Year by BBC Music Magazine . He subsequently performed at the Leipzig Bach Festival , the Cologne Philharmonic , the Tonhalle Zurich , the Library of Congress , the Wiener Konzerthaus , as well as in Finland, Japan, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Poland and China. He was awarded the Diapason d'or and is an artist for Deutsche Grammophon . In 2015 he was appointed professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London .
On February 29, 2016, a concert in Cologne, at which Esfahani played works by Johann Sebastian and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach as well as Steve Reich's piano phase , triggered tumults especially with the latter work, so that the harpsichordist had to break off the piece prematurely.
Audio documents
- Jean-Philippe Rameau : Complete Pieces de claveçin
- Byrd , Bach , Ligeti
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) Württemberg Sonatas
- Time Present and Time Past with works by Alessandro Scarlatti , Henryk Mikołaj Górecki , Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , Francesco Geminiani , Steve Reich and Johann Sebastian Bach with the Concerto Köln
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations BWV 988
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical information taken from the homepage
- ↑ www.gsmd.ac.uk , accessed March 1, 2015
- ↑ Article in the "Zeit". Retrieved April 8, 2016 .
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Esfahani, Mahan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian harpsichordist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran |