Nazanin Aghakhani

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Nazanin Aghakhani ( Persian نازنین آقاخانی; * April 22, 1980 in Vienna , Austria ) is a conductor and pianist . From 2010 to 2012 she was the musical director of the Academic Symphony Orchestra Munich .

Life

Aghakhani was born into a Persian family and had piano lessons since she was eight. She went to school at the Musikgymnasium in Vienna . From the age of twelve she studied classical piano at the Vienna Conservatory with Karl Barth and Meira Farkas . From 1992 she studied counterpoint and conducting with Thomas Christian David and continued these studies first at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Erwin Acel and Leopold Hager , then at the Royal University of Music in Stockholm with Jorma Panula . In Stockholm Nazanin Aghakhani begins with the composition of electroacoustic music under the direction of Bill Brunson and Fredrik Hedelin . In 2008 Aghakhani completed her Master of Arts at the Sibelius Academy , where she studied conducting with Leif Segerstam .

Aghakhani has conducted Finnish, Austrian and Swedish orchestras and ensembles . She has taught Swedish youth orchestras and performed her own compositions across Europe. She made her debut as a conductor at the Musica Nova Festival 2007, an annual contemporary music event in Helsinki , where she was invited again in 2008 and 2009.

In 2008 Aghakhani premiered compositions by young European composers at Wien Modern , the Wiener Festwochen for contemporary music, is a member of the jury of the Ung Nordisk Music Festival for young Scandinavian composers and was deputy conductor for Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Festival in Austria.

In 2010, Aghakhani became the first female conductor to perform with the Tehran Symphony Orchestra in Iran.

In addition to leading and raising children, Aghakhani continued to perform as a pianist and recorded several albums of her own compositions, which were sponsored by the Austrian piano maker Bösendorfer .

In 2018, Aghakhani performed with the orchestra and choirs of the Musikgymnasium Wien, her former school, in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein .

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  1. ↑ a b c d e Nazanin Aghakhani: life | Nazanin Aghakhani. Retrieved March 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Conductor - Nazanin Aghakani . In: Akademisches Sinfonieorchester München eV ( asomuenchen.de [accessed on March 23, 2018]).
  3. ↑ a b Peter Schelling: "There is no better place" . In: sueddeutsche.de . July 18, 2012, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on March 23, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Nazanin Aghakhani: press | Nazanin Aghakhani. Retrieved March 23, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Nazanin Aghakhani | Iranian.com. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / iranian.com
personal data
SURNAME Aghakhani, Nazanin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna