Mohammad Reza Lotfi

Mohammad Reza Lotfi was born in 1947 with Gorgan, in the north of the Iran. It is a recognized player of târ. He also plays of the Setâr and the Violon.

It is encouraged by his/her older brother that it began the practice from the Iranian lute. The year 1965 marks the beginning of its musical studies with the National Academy of Teheran under the direction of Habibollah Salehi and Maître Ali Akbar Shahnazi.

For this period he studied also the Western classical music and the practice of the Violon, which enabled him to enter in collaboration with the orchestra of Hossein Dehlavi. Among its other Masters éminants were Abdollah Davami for the Radif (the erudite repertory of the Iranian Musique), Saeed Hormozi for the Setâr and Nour Ali Boroumand with the faculty of the Art schools of the University of Teheran.

At the end of its studies in 1973, it started to teach with this same faculty and collaborated with the radio and national television before Co-founding the unit Shayda .

Between 1978 and 1980, Lotfi became the director of the Center of Safeguarding and propagation of the traditional music of Iran and the Chavosh Academy.

From 1984, being invited to take part in conferences and to give concerts in Europe, it settled in Italy and from 1986 in the United States, where it formed hundreds of pupils. He currently lives in Iran and moves regularly in Europe.

Prolific musician, it recorded many CD and collaborated with many large Iranian artists such as Mohammad Reza Shadjarian, Hossein Alizadeh, Shahram Nazeri, Parviz Meshkatian….

Beyond his instruments of predilection, Mr. R. Lotfi is regarded today as one of the largest Masters of the Iranian erudite music.

Selective discography

  • Flame off Coils - Live in Basel , (2001).
  • Geryehe Beed
  • Beyade Darvish Khan
  • Beyad Taherzadeh
  • Mystery off Coils , (1998).
  • Abu-ATA Concert , with Mohammad Reza Shadjarian (1997).
  • Be yaad E Aaref , with Mohammad Reza Shadjarian (1986).
  • Eshgh Daanad , with Mohammad Reza Shadjarian (1981).
  • Chehre Be Chehre , with Mohammad Reza Shadjarian (1977).
  • Raast-Panjgaah concert , with Mohammad Reza Shadjarian (1976).

Sources

  • ( in ) Laudan Nooshin, in The New Grove Dictionary off Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie, second edition (Macmillan, London, 2001) and (Oxford University Near, 2001).
  • http://www.tanboor.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=55&Itemid=9

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