"Payam Jahanmani" – Persian Music – Solo Tar playing
Thursday & Friday at 7:00 pm
Hooshyar Khayam (1978)
Khayam belongs to a new generation of
Iranian
musicians. He has worked under the supervision of
many pianists and piano professors namely Gagik Babayan, Raphael
Minasekanian, Farman Behboud, and Davoud Djafari.
In his Bachelor degree in Persian Music in Art
University of Tehran, he had the supervision of Hooshang Zarif, Hadi
Montazeri, and Davoud Ganjehyi amongst others.
Khayam is active as a pianist in classical repertoire
and contemporary music. The highlight of his
performances with the “Inty Orchestra” conducted by Mark Gibson
(2005), the “Concert Orchestra” Conducted by Xian Zhang (2003-4).
He also had numerous solo recitals and chamber concerts in Tehran,
Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Berlin.
His professional commissions include:
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"Shisheh Rangi", for Piano and String Orchestra,
Commission of the "Parsian" String Orchestra, Premier performance
November 2006, Niavaran Hall.
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"Osyan" for piano, string orchestra, and percussion
and "Torkaman" for piano under supervision of Hossein Alizadeh,
2007.
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“Wandering Fairies from Neukolln” for Violin and
Harp, commission by Wayne Foster Smith, Department of Ensemble
Studies, “Hanns Eisler” Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, March 2007.
From Khayam there are so far number of
publications including:
“The Poet Piano“, Atai Publication, Tehran, 2002
“Collected Piano Music” (2001 – 2006), “Ebtekar-e
No” Publication, 2007
“Selected Ensemble Music” (2001 – 2006),
“Ebtekar-e No” Publication, 2007
“Selected Compositions”, “Ketab-e Nader”
Publication, Tehran, 1999
“Conducting Orchestra“, Atai Publication, Tehran,
1994
He has done his Masters and Doctorate in
Composition and Conducting from the University of Cincinnati. He
also taught for three years as teaching Assistant in Theory and
Composition Graduate programs of University of Cincinnati,
Conservatory of Music, and now teaches at the Art University of
Tehran.
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