Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour Recordings

Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour (b.1974) is a leading Iranian contemporary composer.

He specialises in contemporary music that reaches across time and continents and has worked with numerous major ensembles, soloists and orchestras. His music has been released in Iran, Turkey, Denmark and England.

Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour received his Bachelor of Music from Esbjerg Academy of Music in Denmark inn 2001. In 2003 he won the first prize at the biennial composition competition for new music at Tehran University with his solo piano work Images of Childhood,featuring the celebrated Irish pianist Mary Dullea. In the same year he was awarded a Silver Medal for Outstanding Achievement at Trinity College of Music, presented by the Duke of Kent. His studies continued at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

The BBC commissioned Persian Echoes in 2005, the first ever Iranian harp concerto, premiered under the baton of Pascal Rophé and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. The concerto was recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Alexander Rahbari. In 2015 his opera, The Doll Behind the Curtain, was premiered at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival in King’s Place, London. Based on a work by the famous Persian writer Sadegh Hedayat, it was the first Iranian composed opera with an English libretto.

In 2016 Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour completed his PhD in composition at Brunel University, London, under the supervision of Professor Christopher Fox, and in 2018 Naxos Records released Persian Echoes on CD.

He is currently working on his new opera based on the story of the Anglo Iranian Oil Company, written by Dominic Power.