Tehran Contemporary Ensemble brochure

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TCE Season 2017/2018 Concert Guide

Contents Welcome……………………………………………………………………………………..6 About us……………………………………………………………………………………..9 Commissioning presentation……………………………………………………………….11 Music director………………………………………………………………………………12 Artist in residence…………………………………………………………………………..16 Composers…………………………………………………………………………………..19 Members…………………………………………………………………………………….27 __ Orchestra __ Choir __ Traditional instrument

Choreographer……………………………………………………………………………..62 __ Performance artist

Film director………………………………………………………………………………..65 __photographer

Learning program………………………………………………………………………….66 __workshop

Editorial board……………………………………………………………………………..68 — Iranian Artists Forum posters

Honors………………………………………………………………………………………75 Contact us……………………………………………………………………………..……77

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WELCOME In 2016 , Siamak Fallahi founded the contemporary ensemble with alone. The Ensemble’s member’s share a passion for 20th-21st century and contemporary persian music.They are employed on project contract, enabling them to fulfill the major aims of the Ensemble: performance, creation and education for young musicians and the general public.

Under the artistic direction of siamak fallahi, the Musicians work in close collaboration with composers, exploring instrumental techniques and developing projects that music, theater, video and visual arts. New pieces are commissioned and performed on a regular basis. The Ensemble is renown for its strong emphasis on music education: concerts for people, creative workshops for students, training programs for future performers, conductors, composers, etc.

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About Tehran Contemporary Ensemble is a contemporary music ensemble of some soloists dedicated to the performance and promotion of music from the persian contemporary composers and musician.

About one year this ensemble of highly professional musicians has been performing a repertoire of orchestral music in all its diverse forms. under the artistic direction of siamak fallahi they are united by a shared passion for new persian music .they accompany composers in the performing of new performance and extended techniques computer music and encounters with other forms of artistic expression such as theater video visual arts and persian folkloric and traditional forms.

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COMPOSER and CONDUCTOR Siamak Fallahi is the Music Director of the Tehran Contemporary Ensemble.Fallahi began his musical training in conducting, studying with Nader Mashayekhi, but composing took a more prominent role in his life while he was in his early nineteen. Soon after, he divided his time equally between the two disciplines of conducting and composing .

siamak.fallahi@tehran-ensemble.com

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NADER MASHAYEKHI COMPOSER and CONDUCTOR

Nader Mashayekhi from 2006 to July 2007 he was conductor of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra.Mashayekhi studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna under the tutelage of Roman Haubenstock-Ramati. In the 1990s he was music director of the Austrian new music ensemble "Wien 2001".

His works have been performed by Klangforum Wien (1992-95), Ensemble Work in Progress, Berlin (1993), Ensemble Zwischen Tรถne, Berlin (1997-98-99-2000), Savarian Symphony Orchestra (1997), Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna (1998), and the Tehran Symphony Orchestra (1998-2000).

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ARSALAN ABEDIAN COMPOSER

Arsalan Abedian was the assistant of the electronic studio (fmsbw) of the Institute for New Music (Incontri) at the HMTMH during his studies. His works have been performed mainly by Yarava Music Group in Iran and by different ensembles like Esbjerg Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, musica assoluta, Ensemble musikFabrik, Ensemble Laboratorium and Ensemble Schwerpunkt in festivals like KunstFestSpiele, Musik 21, SinusTon, Ankunft Neue Musik, Csound Conference, and next_generation at ZKM in Germany, Denmark, France, US, Russia, Uruguay and Ireland.

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ARSHIA SAMSAMINIA COMPOSER

Arshia Samsaminia He studied composition at Sibelius Academy in Finland , Estonian Academy of Music and Theater and Tbilisi Music Conservatory in Georgia His compositions has been selected and performed in different festivals such as Sound of Stockholm 2017 , Art and Science day 2016 Bourges France ,Mixtur 2017 Barcelona , UNM Nordisk Musik Festival Iceland 2017, Łódź Academy of Music Poland , Batumi Contemporary Music Festival Georgia , Eufonija Festival Serbia and etc. He has had composition and orchestrating projects, collaborations with Stockholm Saxophone Quartet(Sweden), Persson-Meitzner Duo (Sweden) , Sepia Ensemble (Poland), GEPO (UNESCO) orchestra in Paris, Tbilisi Contemporary Ensemble, Omnibus Ensemble , and etc.

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KIAWASCH SAHEBNASSAGH COMPOSER

Kiawasch Sahebnassagh doctorate study of electronic music and ethnomusicology institute of electronic music and acoustic/institute of ethnomusicology university of music and dramatic art Graz, Austria.

Adviser: Dr Robert Holdrich M.A composition and Music theory university of music and dramatic art Graz, Austria Adviser: Prof Beat Furrer

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EHSAN SABOOHI COMPOSER

Ehsan Saboohi M.A. in Composition (Contemporary Music) Faculty of Music, Art University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2009 Thesis Subject: Composition and Analyzing “Symphony No. 1”. Advisors: HamidrezaDibazar, TaghiZarrabi. B.A. in Music (International Instruments: Saxophone& Piano) Music Department, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, 2005 Thesis Title: Music and New Recording Methods Advisor: Amir Ashraf Arianpour Music Diploma (Iranian Traditional Instruments: Santour&Tombak) Sooreh School of Music, Tehran, Iran, 1999

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ORCHESTRA __Violin Farbod Morasaee Danial Jourabchi Shima Allahyari Ghasem Ataee Azadeh Imani Milad Kazemi Ramona Rajaee Sheida Afshar Mahshid Mahmoudian

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ORCHESTRA

__Viola Mitra Safarkhani Niki Yaghmaee Hamid Khakfar Saeed Abadoz

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__Cello Masoud Firoozinejad Touraj Baghaee Saeede Ghasemi Mosavi Golsana Shenasaee

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__ Contrabass Mahdiyeh Hamrahi Siamak Saneie

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__ Flute Hossein Ebadollahi Kiana Fatemifar

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__ Clarinet Mansour Rezapour Mohammad kazemzade

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__ Trombone Sepehr Abbasi Keyvan Joulaee Tina Etaat Amirali Hesaraki

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__ Tuba Javad Ebrahimi rad __Trumpet Omid Aghajani __ Saxophone Alireza Hamzeloo

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__ Percussion Roshanak Raffani Erfan Farshizadeh Armin Kheirdan Amirhossein Sajjadi Hesamedin Ahadi Shahrzad Afshar Sadegh Shariyati Mohsen Kamani Reza Farzanpour 46

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__ Piano Arshia Ghasri Amirhossein Barzegaran Mohammad javad Bahrami Amir salar Parhizkar Pouria Momtazfar

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__Guitar Sarah Abbasi Ali Fatemi Mohammad mostafazadeh Sian Mohsenipour

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ORCHESTRA __Kamancheh

__Tar and Setar

Matin Ahangari Reza Farzanpour

Mehdi Shirvani Sepehr Sagharchi

__Ney Hamed Mohsen nejad

__Dotar Sohrab Alipour

__Santour Masoud Farahani

__Daf and Bandir

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Sadegh Shariyati Shahrzad Afshar

Erfaneh Savaye sorour

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Samira Aminifar Bahare Hosseini Elena Farahani Rana Joudaki Arghavan vazehi Fatemeh Faryad manesh

Sina Mohsenipour Hasan Rezaee Mehran Khosroabadi Alireza Gorgani Sajjad Fasihi Abdali Ghasemi

Sarah Abbasi Saloume Keshmiri Zohreh Kadkhodazadeh Shohreh Roohi Mehrnoosh Kamandi Vida Aminpour Fariba Sabeti

Amirhossein Esmaeeli AmirKhalighi Hadi Baradaran Hamidreza Afifi

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__ Director and Choreographer Soroush Karaminejad Alireza Gorgani Saeedeh Tarkashvand

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__ Film director Sarah Abbasi Amin Khorsandi __ Photographer Sarah Abbasi Mohammad Fahimi

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Learning presentation Helping people discover enjoy , compose , conduct ,and play contemporary music is at the heart of the ensemble mission .the ensemble’s commitment to transmission its experience skills and know-how is visible in the several dozens initiatives undertaken each season to reach a diversified public . this include educational concerts, school workshops, gatherings to introduce young composers, preconcert rehearsals for audience members keen to learn about composers and their works, instrument workshops in music academy improvement classes and international academies for future music professionals.

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HONORS __ The Manifesto We are honored to publish the first manifesto of contemporary music in Iran in _ 2014, which have been supported by influential Iranian figures,Iranian artists forum, ministry of culture and broadcasted by publications and authentic news agencies.

__ Nader Mashayekhi Nader Mashayekhi dedicated to Siamak Fallahi a Piece of music named Irdische offenbarung , he wrote the piece for flute, soprano and ensemble.

__ Elvis Joan Suรกrez Elvis Joan Suรกrez dedicated to Siamak Fallahi a Piece of artwork named Mural Music kinetic, he wrote the piece for Tehran Contemporary Ensemble.

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__ Arshia Samsaminia Arshia Samsaminia dedicated to Siamak Fallahi a Piece of music named Earth in ashes , he wrote the piece for Tehran Contemporary Ensemble.

__ Editorial board Forming the first editorial board for an orchestra in Iran at Iranian artists forum _ 2016

__ Sound logo The first registration and recording of a sound logo for an orchestra in Iran _ 2016

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Contact us websites: www.tehran-ensemble.com www.facebook.com/pg/TCEnsemble www.twitter.com/tehranensemble www.youtube.com/channel/tehrancontemporaryensemble www.instagram.com/tehran_contemporary_ensemble www.iranartists.org

ADDRESS: www.google.com/maps/place/Tehran+Contemporary+Ensemble+

TEL: +98 935 8805045

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