Pooyan Azadeh

Pooyan Azadeh ( listen ^?^/^I , Persian پویان آزاده; * 1979 in Iran ) is an Iranian-German pianist .

Life

Azadeh has been playing the piano since he was a child and has led choirs since he was 12 years old. He studied classical European and Persian classical music (Bachelor) and Piano (Master) at the University of the Arts Tehran (in Russian pianist Dilbar Hakimova) and participated in the master class of Paul Gulda at the Young Artists Festival Bayreuth in Germany in part. Since 2007 he has received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He worked as a university assistant at the Martin Luther University , Institute for Music, Halle (Saale). Azadeh was an exchange doctorate at Arizona State UniversityUNITED STATES. He received his doctorate from the Martin Luther University Halle in Germany with “magna cum laude” in January 2015.

Azadeh is internationally recognized as a concert pianist. His performance as a pianist in the concert “Vom Orient nach Hollywood” in 2010, where he was the first Iranian pianist in Europe to play the second piano concerto by Aminollah Hossein , has earned him a name and special attention in German music circles. Azadeh has lectured on Persian classical piano music at several national and international conferences. In 2013 he also led the first seminar on Persian piano music at the Martin Luther University in Halle.

Azadeh continued to distinguish himself in European classical music.

Azadeh was a student of a very important and well-known Persian pianist, Javad Marufi (1912-1993), who had great educational and cultural influence in Iranian piano music. Azadeh also benefited from Master Morteza Mahjoobi (1900-1965). He calls him his "artistic ancestor". Azadeh caused Morteza Mahjoobi's Persian piano notation to be registered as a National Heritage of Iran ( UNESCO ) in 2013. Azadeh would like to have this very unique way of writing piano notations, which he analyzed in his doctoral thesis, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Azadeh was the first to take on a full professorship for piano at the Tehran University of the Arts and founded a private piano school ( Pooyan Piano Institute , Tehran) in 2015 and the first music and art college in Eastern Iran ( Pooyan Art University , Semnan) in 2018 .

From 2012 Azadeh led several master classes and workshops in the Orient and Occident, is a member of the jury of the music competition for Iranian student pianists, organized by the Iranian Ministry of Education and Culture.

Publications

His publications include the book, National Anthems of the World , which was nominated for the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education, and a CD with The Music of the Sangsar Nomads , European piano school , which he translated into the Persian language for piano arranged Persian folklore with the title Yeylagh and in 2019 a CD on Persian piano music with the title Ba Yadash .

Projects

Azadeh has been leading the world's first intercultural piano pedagogy workshop at the Bayreuth International Festival of Young Artists since August 2010 .

Azadeh gave a presentation of the Sangesar music of the nomads at the conference of the Council for Registering Historical, Spiritual and Natural Works of Iran and registered it as a national cultural heritage in Iran in 2011.

From 2012 to 2015 he also took over the management of the music association of the Iranian province of Semnan . Pooyan Azadeh is the founder and director of the Scientific Society for Music of the University of the Arts Tehran, the first scientific society for music from 2004 to 2007 in Iran.

In cooperation with the piano manufacturer Steingraeber & Sons in Bayreuth, he developed a "Persian grand piano" (to develop the tonality of Iranian Dastgah music with its "quarter tones") and presented it at the VdM 2019 music congress in Berlin.

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personal data
SURNAME	Azadeh, Pooyan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	پویان آزاده (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Iranian-German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	1979
PLACE OF BIRTH	Iran