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Mehdi Moshtagh Mehdi Moshtagh (Persian: مهدی مشتاق, Isfahan, Iran) is an Iranian musician, composer and researcher.

He started studying Persian music in 2001 with various masters. Some of his eminent teachers were Mohammad Reza Lotfi, Dariush Talai, and Massoud Shaari.

In 2005 he published his first album named “On The Way” in Iran and in 2009 he published his second record material named “Roozgar”. In 2010, after his tour in Mexico and his concerts at the “Ollin Kan” festival, he performed a concert in the city of Isfahan and that concert was published on a DVD named “The Other Pattern”. He has taught various classes of setâr and târ in Iran from 2004 to 2011 and in Mexico from 2011 to the present. He has led numerous concerts in Asia, Europe and America.

In 2011 he immigrated to Mexico and soon founded the Didar Ensemble with which he began his performances, concerts and recitals of Persian classical music. In the same year he began his teaching work which he maintains to this day. In 2012, the National Theater Company invited him as a musical performer and composer in Innana. In 2013, he founded the ensemble Setaristas Moshtagh, a meeting place for the first generation of mexican Setar players to interpret the traditional Persian repertoire. During his residency in Mexico he has been part of the Segrel group with the Ajedrez Mundo project (medieval, renaissance and persian music). in the same year, Moshtagh joined the Egiptanos ensemble (migrant music and dance of Mexico) and participated in the recording of the album Quitapenas, whose show was nominated for the Lunas del Auditorio award. In 2016 he participated as a performer and composer in the recording of the Abgal ensemble album (original music with ancient instruments) and also published the album “Tarde y Lejos”, the first Persian Classical Music album published in Mexico and Latin America. In 2019, produced and published the album Perxico, an album of original compositions and arrangements by Mehdi Moshtagh. In June 2019, in collaboration with Tambuco, ensemble de percussions of Mexico, and the camera orchestra of Coahuila, he presented the opera “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, directed by Sergio Vela  at Liber Festival, León (Guanajuato). Also in the same year, in collaboration with the Mexican filmmaker, Miguel Nájera, makes a short film named “Tetlalli, a short film for a musical piece”, an original composition by Mehdi Moshtagh. This work wins the Bronze Medal of the Global Music Awards in November 2019 and the Audience Award at the 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival in March 2020.

He currently resides in Mexico City participating in a large number of scenic and cultural spaces, among which are the Palace of Fine Arts, the Esperanza Iris City Theater, the National Sound Library, the National Center for the Arts, the National Museum of Anthropology, the Old Palace of the Archbishopric, Castillo de Chapultepec, National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM, Radio UNAM, Radio IMER, Radio CODIGO CDMX. At the same time, with giving conferences at the College of Mexico, the Music Faculty of UNAM, among other academic spaces.

Discography

 * On The Way, Irán 2005
 * Roozgâr, Irán 2009
 * The Other Pattern, Irán 2010
 * Quitapenas, Mexico 2013
 * Abgal, Mexico, 2016
 * Tarde y Lejos, Mexico 2016
 * Perxico, Persia y México, Mexico 2020

Awards

 * University Students Music Festival, Iran (2nd place, 2004)
 * Youth Music Festival, Iran (1st place, 2007)
 * Las Lunas del Auditorio Nacional with Egiptanos ensemble, for the best show of the year, Mexico (nominated, 2013)
 * Global Music Awards, for “Tetlalli, a short film for a musical piece”, United States (Bronze medal, 2019)
 * 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival, for “Tetlalli, a short film for a musical piece”, United States (audience award, 2020)


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