TEHRAN-Maestro Majid Entezami is to conduct Iran’s National Orchestra at a concert at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on December 6.

The celebrated musician and composer Entezami will return to the stage after 11 years to perform a number of his memorable compositions at the concert titled “Along with Memories,” ILNA reported.

“The Symphony of the Epic of Khorramshar,” “The Glass Agency,” “From Karkheh to Rhine,” “The Fragrance of Joseph's Shirt,” “The Train,” “Duel,” “Zaal and Simorgh,” “The Insane Flew Away,” “Sheikh Baha’I,” and “Great Expectation” are the nostalgic pieces selected to be performed at the event.

Also an oboist, Entezami, 75, has composed music for over 80 movies, nine television series, and 10 suite symphonies. He has received the best original score award at the Fajr International Film Festival several times.

He studied at State University of West Berlin under the supervision of Karl Steins and Lothar Koch in 1968. He performed successful concerts with Berlin University Symphony Orchestra in Lyon, Nancy and Marseille, France from 1969 to 1972.

In 1973, Entezami came to Iran by the invitation of Tehran Symphony Orchestra and performed a successful Mozart concert as oboe soloist, conducted by Helge Dorsch. Then he returned to Germany as a member of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and West Deutsche Philharmonie.

In 1974 he became a member of Tehran Symphony Orchestra as well as teacher at the Tehran Conservatory and music department of University of Tehran. He has performed two oboe recitals with Lucette Martirossian on piano and harpsichord and Ivan Pristas on bassoon in 1976 and a concert with the Les Jeunesses Musicales de I’Iran orchestra conducted by Ali Rahbari and Valodia Tarkhanian as viola d’amore soloist.

Despite being the son of famous Iranian actor Ezzatollah Entezami, Majid's entrance into the cinema industry was his own.

He has a profound understanding of the picture and has always tried to tell the untold essence of the story. He also has experience with a variety of styles which has given his portfolio variety, from comedies to epic war movies.

The music of Entezami is orchestral and based on western classical music, but with Iranian instruments and unusual rhythms which give his works an eastern feel. 

Every theme and musical color heard in Entezami's work has a rational explanation in the story. He believes that music tells a part of the story that is not already told in the picture. Some of his works seem to be narrative, almost like part of the script, but he maintains that no director has ever asked him for such characteristics.

Iran's National Orchestra was founded in 1998 under the conduction of the renowned Iranian composer Farhad Fakhreddini.

The orchestra had been formed by Persian traditional instruments, strings and woodwind instruments. During its history, the orchestra focused on Persian composers’ compositions including pieces by renowned figures such as Fakhreddini, Ali Tajvidi, and Hossein Alizadeh among others.

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