Arsalan Abedian Website Co-founder of RKC Arsalan Abedian was born in Tehran, Iran, and received his first musical training on the santur, a traditional Persian instrument, with Omid Sayareh. He began his composition studies in Tehran and continued them at the University of Music, Drama and Media Hannover, where he earned an additional master’s degree…
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Joachim Heintz WebsiteElectronic Department Director Since 2017 Biography After studying literature and art history, Joachim Heintz began his composition studies in 1995 with Younghi Pagh-Paan and Guenter Steinke at the Hochschule fuer Kuenste, Bremen. He composes for instruments and electronics, concerts, installations and performances. With his software instrument ALMA he has improvised with many musicians…
Sara Abazari Biography Sara Abazari is a composer and music pedagogue. Her work focuses on the musical analysis of different historical periods and the examination of the relationship between music and society. Her compositions have been performed at Musik-Triennale-Köln, Musikfest in Siegen, Tehran-Berlin Travellers and traiect ii, a.o, and by ensembles such as unitedberlin, Musikfabrik…
Shahrokh Khajenouri Senior Art Advisor Since the Foundation Biography Was born in 1953 in Tehran. He studied Piano under Emanuel Melik Aslanian. In 1971, he studied harmony and counterpoint at Guildhall Music School and London College of Music. Khajenouri got his Composition Diploma and could reach the degree of F.L.C.M. He learned the electronic music…
Mohsen Mirmehdi Research Director Biography He was born in 1948 in Tehran. Composer and doctor of philosophy. He lives and teaches in Berlin for more than fifty years. He studied Musicology with Carl Dalhaus, and music theory and composition with Heinrich Poos. In 1993 he received his doctorate in philosophy from Klaus Heinrich at the…
Fozie Majd was born in Berlin. Attended schools in Tehran and England. After receiving her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Edinburgh, she went to Paris where she studied with Nadia Boulanger on a French government grant. The performance of Tuned to the night (Shabkuk) for string orchestra (1973) at the Shiraz Festival…
Was born in Tehran in 1940. He was the first composer in Iran who has brought the message of modernism in music. His first teachers were Lotfollah Mofakham Payan (Iranian music), Hossein Nasehi (composition) and Ophelia Kombajian (piano). He finished his education in Vienna in 1963. Hanns Jelinek and Karl Schiske were his composition teachers…