LORIS TJEKNAVORIAN TO PERFORM BENEFIT CONCERTS IN TEHRAN
Payvand, Iran
Nov 18 2006
TEHRAN, Nov.18 (ISNA)-The veteran Iranian music composer and conductor,
Loris Tjeknavorian will perform concerts in Tehran along with three
Austrian instrument players. (Nov.29-Dec.5)
The concert, accompanied by two Austrian pianists and a violinist,
will be held in the amphitheatre hall of Mahak hospital in Tehran
for six successive nights. These performances are for the benefit of
children suffering from cancer
The concert is dedicated to classic pieces of music by Bach and
Mozart along with Kurdish and Iranian sonatas. Tjeknavorian is also
to perform pieces of music he has composed.
Loris Tjeknavorian (also spelt Cheknavarian, born 1937) is a
contemporary Iranian-Armenian composer and conductor. He was born
in Broujerd in the province of Lorestan, southwest of Iran and was
educated in Tehran.
In the course of his career, Cheknavarian has made about 100
recordings (with RCA, Philips, EMI , ASV, etc.) and written more than
75 compositions (symphonies, operas, a requiem, Chamber Music, concerto
for piano, violin, guitar, cello and bipa (Chinese lute), ballet music,
choral works and an oratorio along with over 45 Film mosaics.
Cheknavarian also has conducted international orchestras throughout
the world: in Austria, UK, USA, Canada, Hungary, Iran, Finland,
former USSR, Armenia, Thailand, Hong Kong, South Africa, Denmark etc.