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Welcome to the Official Homepage of
Behzad
Mirkhani |
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BEHZAD
MIRKHANI (b.1969) is a
Persian guitarist and composer. He is a member of Iran House of Music,
Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO), and the Registry of Guitar
Tutors (RGT). As an RGT registered tutor, he offers classical
guitar and music theory exam
preparation of the London
College of Music (LCM).
In 1990 he began to compose a series of works including guitar
concertos, string quartets, orchestral music and pieces for solo guitar
and guitar with mixed ensemble. He signed with an Iranian record label
(Avaye Chang) and released his debute album. Behzad Mirkhani's "The
Last Leaf”
album was established as the first Iranian composition for the
classical guitar by the Iranian ministry of culture.
1991 - Releasing "Asturias" Album containing original guitar
compositions (Tarrega, Mehran Rouhani, Sam Shulman, Behzad
Mirkhani), and guitar transcriptions (Albeniz, Chopin, Beethoven,
J.S.Bach).
1992 - Releasing "The Foal" album containing original guitar
compositions of Behzad
Mirkhani, inspired by a Russian short story written by Mikhail
Sholokhov.
1993 - Composing music for male vocal (Mehrdad Peykarzadeh) and guitar,
and also guitar solos for the special events which held at the Azad
University Hall, North of Tehran.
1995 - Behzad Mirkhani wrote a cadenza into the first movement of
Vivaldi's Guitar Concerto in D. Later that year he performed the
concerto as a soloist with the Tehran Roudaki Hall String Orchestra,
conducted by the late Fereydoun Naseri.
1997 – Performing guitar solos
at the Austrian Cultural Institute Tehran (ÖKF).
1998 - "Buds" album containing original instrumental compositions of
Behzad Mirkhani for guitar, piano, violin, flute, fretless bass guitar,
and drums, released through an Iranian record label (Tanin Sote
Coporation).
1999 - "Iran Rhapsody" album containing original compositions of Behzad
Mirkhani for guitar, violin, and orchestra, inspired by Persian folk
music, released through an Iranian record label (Tanin Sote Coporation).
2002 - "Guitar Dance" album containing ensemble guitar transcriptions of
J.S.Bach, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, and Oscar Rieding, released through an
Iranian record label (Chaharbaghbang Music Institution).
2003 - "Flower Leaf" album containing original music of Behzad Mirkhani
for vocal, guitar, violin, tar, and orchestra, released through an
Iranian record label (Chaharbaghbang Music Institution).
In 2004, Behzad Mirkhani offered his original compositions for nylon
guitars, strings and Piano in a CD named “70 Minutes for Guitar
Romances”. The sound of Spring's immigrant birds and other
sounds of nature bring a splash of relaxing colour to the music. This
CD also includes some transcriptions from J.S. Bach, Beethoven (Adagio
from Moonlight Sonata), Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Grieg, Brahms, Oscar
Rieding and Akbar Mohseni (considered the dean of Iranian composers
& a great performer of tar and Barbat [lute] that is Persian Oud).
The album released in the USA through CDBABY. Also release in 2004 was
the Flute And Piano Recital, "Three Images
From Iran" Composed By Behzad Mirkhani & Performed by Sam Akkas and
Neil Cloake in London (Polish Centre).
In 2005, influenced by '70s instrumental music, Behzad wrote the
romantic score of “Chi Mai” CD for a smooth jazz orchestra.
He was admitted as a member of "Irish Music Rights Organisation".
The
album released in the USA
through CDBABY.
Behzad Mirkhani's 2007 Violin and Guitar Recital, "Lori : an image from
Lorestan province, Iran" was performed by Elena Rojas and Sylwia
Kloc in New York (LeFrak Concert Hall, Aaron Copland School of Music).
2008 - Violin and Guitar Recital, “Persian Abstract”
composed by Behzad Mirkhani, performed by Elena Rojas and Sylwia
Kloc in New York (Mannes Concert Hall, Mannes College of Music,
& LeFrak Concert Hall, Aaron Copland School of Music).
Later that year "The
Last Leaf”
album released again through an Iranian record label (Ava Khorshid
Company).
2009 - Violin and Guitar Recital, “Persian Abstract” & "Lori : an
image from
Lorestan province, Iran" composed by Behzad Mirkhani, performed by
Elena Rojas
and Sylwia Kloc in New York (WMP Concert Hall, & LeFrak
Concert Hall, Aaron Copland School of Music). Later that year he
was admitted as
a member of "Iran House of Music".
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List of
Recordings copyrighted by Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO)
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International Standard
Musical
Work Code ( ISWC ) |
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T-030.092.823-7 |
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T-030.092.825-9 |
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T-030.092.837-3 |
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T-030.092.830-6 |
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T-030.092.819-1 |
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T-030.092.832-8 |
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T-030.092.834-0 |
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T-030.092.836-2 |
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T-030.092.829-3 |
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T-030.092.818-0 |
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T-030.092.817-9 |
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T-030.092.833-9 |
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T-030.092.839-5 |
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T-030.092.821-5 |
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T-030.092.828-2 |
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T-030.092.838-4 |
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T-030.092.835-1 |
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T-030.092.826-0 |
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T-030.092.820-4 |
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Music
by
Behzad
Mirkhani
©
copyright
control
/
IMRO
All
rights
reserved
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