Persian Symphonic music

The Persian symphonic music has a long record. In fact Opera initiated from Persia much before its appearance in Europe. Iranians traditionally performed Tazeeieh, which in several respects look like the Euroepan Opera. The first serious pieces of Persian symphonic music have been released by Gholma Reza Minbashian, Aminollah Hossein, Parviz Mahmoud, Gholam Hosssein Minbashian and then Houshang Ostovar, Samin Baghtcheban, Morteza Hannaneh, Hossein Nassehi, Emmauel Melik Aslanian, Hossein Dehlavi, Ahmad Pejman and Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh etc.

There are also some growing attempts to mixed Persian classical music and the western classical music. Davood Azad, a well-known Iranian artist and vocalist, melded Johann Sebastian Bach’s music pattern and Iranian classical music.

Iran’s main group includes the national Orchestra, Tehran Symphony Orchestra and the Melal Orchestra (National Orchestra).

Iran is not strange to the western classical music either. Several radio stations in Tehran play Mozart’s concertos on a daily basis, and several Iranians even make it to world popularity and fortune. The 20^th century classical composer and pianist Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was of Iranian descent. The best instances of these Iranainas are possibly Shardad Rohani (LA Symphony Orchestra conductor), Lily Afshar (the world classical guitarist and student of Andres Segovia), Loris Tjeknavorian (the principal conductor of the Rudaki Opera House Orchestra in Tehran), and Hormoz Farhat (who is the composer, Ethnomusicologist, Music Professor). In the year 2005, Ali Rahbari, the head of Tehran Symphony Orchestra, performed Beethoven’s 9^th Symphony in Tehran Vahdat Hall. And also in the year 2005, Perspolis Orchestra (Melal Ochestra) played a piece that traced back over 3000 years ago. The note of this piece of music that is believed to have belonged to Sumerians and olden Greeks, were discovered among some olden captions and after being decoded by the archaeologists, was arranged by Siavosh Beizaee for Perspolis Orchestra Symphony. Though, as it is demonstrated on the olden reliefs of that period, the instruments of such pieces possibly comprise wind instruments such as the pipe and the horn. Well-known Iranian artist such as Peyman Soltani conducted the Perspolis group.