User:Amir Mirabadi

Amir Eslami (Persian امیر اسلامی), full name Amirhossein Eslami Mirabadi was born in Isfahan, Iran, in 1971. He started to learn Ney (Persian traditional flute) under the supervision of Jalal Ghazi in Isfahan in 1987. Then, he continued music by Mozafar Moayed, Mohammad Ali Kianinejad and Abdolnaghi Afsharnia. He received his BA in music in 1997 and an MA in music composition in 2003. Amir Eslami has been a faculty member in the Music Faculty of the Art University of Tehran from 2005 to 2018. He has won three national prizes and three international prizes (Italy, Australia and Netherlands) in music composition. He has released four music albums as a composer and more than ten music albums as a Ney (Persian Traditional Flute) player. His album, “All of You”, in cooperation with Dr. Hooshyar Khayam (Pianist) was released in 2011. It received a four out of five star rating in Song Lines Magazine, volume 75, in London in 2011. Amir presented a lecture recital titled “A New Approach to Improvisation in Persian Music” based on this album at the University of London in 2010 and at Cambridge University in 2011. He received the “Best Lecturer” award from the Music Faculty of the Art University of Tehran in 2008 and the “Best Researcher” award in 2009. He was a jury member in the “2 Agosto International Composition Competition” in Bologna in 2012. Amir’s pieces have been performed in Iran, Italy, Australia, USA and Netherlands and Canada. He immigrated to Vancouver in February 2015. His piece “Azeri Songs” was performed by Ambleside Symphony Orchestra in 2016. He published “Of String’s Song and Reed’s Cry” by Rumi Records in Vancouver in 2017. The last performance of his pieces is “Ghalandar” by Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra in 2018. “The Memories of a Sweet Heart” and “The Secret of Nightingale’s Song” are the latest albums which have been published by Rumi Records in Vancouver in 2019.