Hormoz Farhat | Divine Art Recordings

Métier Records to release new recording of piano music from Iran by composers Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour and Hormoz Farhat, performed by Mary Dullea

Divine Art Recordings is honoured and delighted to announce a new recording of piano music by two foremost Iranian composers, of two generations, to be released in winter 2020-21 on the Métier new music imprint. The recording has been engineered and produced by top-ranked expert Adaq Khan in London.

Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour was born in 1974 and specialises in music which reaches across boundaries of geography and politics – and also time. He studied in Denmark and England and has enjoyed international success with recordings on Métier and Naxos. He wrote the first ever Harp Concerto by an Iranian composer on a commission from the BBC Symphony Orchestra. His opera The Doll Behind the Curtain – the first Iranian opera with an English libretto – was premiered in London in 2015. Some of his works for string ensemble were recorded along with works by Fozieh Majd on the album ‘In Absentia’: Metier MSV 28576 (2019)

Hormoz Farhat is perhaps the most senior of Iranian composers of ‘international’ art music. He was born in 1930, became a student of Darius Milhaud, and was the first Iranian to write a formal piano sonata.

The works here are performed by Irish pianist Mary Dullea, a formidable virtuoso dedicated to contemporary works whose skill and ability to realise aleatory and avant garde works is astonishing. She is pianist with the world-acclaimed Fidelio Trio which has performed in many countries and has made recordings with several leading labels including Delphian, Atarus and NMC as well as Métier; as a soloist she has performed throughout Ireland, England, Europe, USA, Hong Kong and South Africa. She has recorded for Métier music by Michael Finnissy, Eric Craven and Paul Whitty as well as a collection of new Irish works by Benjamin Dwyer, David Fennessy, Ed Bennett, Frank Lyons, Gráinne Mulvey, Jonathan Nagle and John McLachlan. She has just completed a recording of Craven’s ‘Pieces for Pianists’ (2 CDs) which will appear early in 2021.