Biography
Reza Korourian was born on November 5, 1971 in Tehran. He graduated from the Faculty of Art and Architecture with a Bachelor’s degree in Music. He was also a flutist, guitarist and pianist.
He studied Music Theory, Harmony and basic lessons of Composition with Alireza Mashayekhi and continued studying Music Composition at university with Farid Omran and Kiawasch SahebNassagh. He then pursued his passion for composing more seriously with SahebNassagh. He completed his study of Electronic Music under the instruction of Shahrokh Khajenouri and Arvin Sedaghatkish. Korourian was one of the five participants who attended the first electronic music workshop in Iran which was held by Shahrokh Khajenouri. By 2008, he also participated in Joachim Heintz’s electronic music workshop and received conducting lessons by Manuchehr Sahbai.
He presented his thesis in electronic music and spent years of his life translating reference books about electronic music and composition. His translation of Tom Holms’ article “The Most Impressive Electronic Music Pieces” was published in the 111th volume of “Art of Music” magazine. Two albums of his works have been published by “Contemporary Music Records” so far. The only official performance of his works was in “IC No.3” held by Yarava Music Group and with Khajenouri and SahebNassagh providing the speech, introducing Iranian and the world electronic music composers and presenting “In Dreams” by Korourian. A year later, “In Dreams” was introduced and performed at Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media.
Reza Korourian departed this life in the morning of March 3, 2015.
