Ali Radman

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Born1973 (age 5051)
Origin Tehran, Iran
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Occupation(s)Composer, Conductor, Pedagogue and Pianist
Website t.me/Ali1Alii1

Ali Radman (born 20 June 1973) is an Iranian musician, composer, conductor, pedagogue and pianist. [1] [2]

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Life

Ali Radman was born on 20 June 1973 in Tehran, Iran. He was introduced to a classical music foundation and basic theory topics of music by his father, Mohammad Hassan Radman, from early age. He was improving his knowledge of basic elements of music, piano playing, and the theory of Iranian music under the conservatory teachers’ supervision. At the same time, he was a sophomore in the field of electronics at Kerman University. In 1990, he was a member of UNIMA as a composer and in 1995, he was accepted as a bachelor student in the field of music at the Faculty of Fine Arts in University of Tehran. [3]

In composition, he is an art graduate of the school of Alireza Mashayekhi. Besides music composing, he improved his knowledge of Iranian music repertoire through Majid Kiani 's lessons, the basics of ethnomusicology through Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh. He acquired the techniques of piano playing under the supervision of Raphael Minaskanian  [ fa ]. He learnt techniques of orchestra conducting from Edo Mičič, [4] Manuchehr Sahbaei [5] and Iradj Sahbaei as well. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts-University of Tehran. [6] After his bachelor graduation, he started his master in the field of Music Composition at the Tehran University of Art. During his master, he enjoyed experiencing courses taught by Olena Dyachkova, [7] Tolib Shakhidi, Hossein Dehlavi, Shahrokh Khajeh noori, Kambiz Roshanravan, [8] and Ahmad Pejman.

Career

He started his career as a composer in 1991 and composed some pieces for children's shows for Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting until 1994. In 1996, he cooperated with Tehran Music Group and the Iranian Orchestra for New Music, which was supervised and supported by Alireza Mashayekhi, and he performed several concerts with that orchestra as conductor and pianist. [9] He joined the University of Tehran- faculty of fine arts at the music department in 1999. In 2004, he began to teach at the Sooreh Institute of advanced education and the Farhang Institute of music in Tehran. He began cooperating with the contemporary music research center orchestra at the School of Fine Arts. He actively participated as a performer in all the CDs published by the Iranian Orchestra for New Music. He performed research concerts and other programs as a pianist and conductor in the Fajr International Music Festival. [10] In 2008, he has presented some experiences in Iranian polyphonic composition under the title of "Persian Clusters". He served as the head of the department of music at Islamic Azad University, Shiraz Branch from 2009 until 2017. Radman founded Pars Contemporary Orchestra in 2011 and performed several orchestral pieces in various styles of composition. [11] [12] [13] [14] He held workshops at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp based on “models of polyphony textures in Iranian music” in March 2017. [15] He was also holding out seminars and concerts at Tehran and Shiraz University based on “techniques of composing in the 20th century” and “Evolutions in composing in Iran”. Radman is a member of the Association of the Iranian Contemporary Music Composers (ACIMC). [1] He Achieved the First Class Medal of Art in Iran, 2013. [16] His album named "Sialk-Eastern View" won the honorary award from the Fajr International Music Festival in 2022.

Music

In composition, he has developed the rhythmic, melodic and timbre elements of Iranian musical scales with an approach to contemporary international music and the forms inspired by Iranian modal music.

His interest and focus in the composition is in introducing models inspired by Iranian folk music in polyphony, with an approach to contemporary music that is presented in different forms like orchestral, ensemble, solo, electronic and electroacoustic pieces. His several pieces are performed by various contemporary orchestras in Europe, America and Asia.

Selected compositions

Festival and conferences works

Publications

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