Category: Farhad Fakhreddini

Farhad Fakhreddini (born March 12, 1938) is an Iranian musician, composer, and orchestra conductor. He has created famous works for film soundtracks and television series, including Sarbedaran, Imam Ali, and Avicenna. He founded the Iranian National Orchestra in 1998 and led it for 11 years, and is currently a member of the High Council of the Iranian Music House.
Biography
Farhad Fakhreddini was born on March 12, 1938, in Gadabay, near Ganja in Soviet Azerbaijan. His father was from Usku and his mother was from Ganja. Two months after his birth, the Fakhreddini family migrated to the village of Zonuz in East Azerbaijan Province and lived for a short time in his father’s sister’s house. Then they migrated to Tabriz. His father, Mohammad Ali Fakhreddini, known as “Mahzun” (born 1278–died 1365), was a poet of Azerbaijan who was highly respected among the people of that land.

Fakhreddini started playing the violin as a child. He pursued his musical education at the National High School of Music and the “Institute of Musicology” – which was founded only for a four-year period in the 1960s in Tehran. Before he finished his studies at the High School, he was invited by Hossein Dehlavi (the then head of the High School) to teach there. From 1963 until his retirement, he was engaged in teaching music at the High School and National College of Music, and also collaborated as a violinist in the Golha Orchestra and other orchestras. From 1973 to 1979, he was the leader of the Grand Radio and Television Orchestra. In 1973, all the existing orchestras in the Radio and Television Organization were merged and the Grand Orchestra of the Organization was created. In a competition held to select the leader of this orchestra, Fakhreddini scored the highest and was in charge of the National Radio and Television Orchestra from that year until 1979. During his professional career, he has collaborated with many people, including Hossein Dehlavi, Mostafa Pourtorab, Ahmad Pejman, Ruhollah Khaleghi, Javad Maroufi, Morteza Hannaneh, and Fereydoon Nasseri.

From the teachers from whom Fakhreddini learned music, one can mention Ahmad Mohajer, Abolhasan Saba, Ali Tajvidi (in the field of violin and Iranian Radif music), Melik Aslanian (in the principles of music theory and harmony and analysis of classical music), Mehdi Barkeshli (in the analysis of Iranian music) and Khachi Khachik. Among his students, one can mention Hossein Alizadeh, Mohammad Haggoo, Ali Akbar Ghorbani, Mazda Ansari, Mehdi Hosseini, Aria Aziminejad and Arman Mousapour.

His older brother, Fakhruddin Fakhreddini, is a famous portrait photographer. His younger brother, Farough Fakhreddini, while working as a photographer, has been a famous athlete and has been the coach of the Iranian national volleyball team for many years.

Collected works from this artist are available on Khosousi website as follows: