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Amir Teymuri (Persian: امیر تیموری, born June 16 or 17 1984) is an Iranian composer.

Early life and education[edit]

Amir Teymuri received his initial musical training on the violin under the guidance of Mahmoud Merati in Kermanshah[1]. He then studied from 2003 to 2010 at the College of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran and received private composition lessons in parallel. Among his teachers at this time were Kiawasch Sahebnassagh, Farid Omran, Dilbar Hakimova and Rafael Minaskanian. In 2004, he was awarded at the First National Biennale for New Music held at the University of Tehran for his compositions. From 2010 to 2018, he continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg im Breisgau and at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main with Cornelius Schwehr, Michael Reudenbach, and Orm Finnendahl. He was a scholarship holder at the Academy of Arts[2] and artist-in-residence at the Center for Arts and Urbanistic[3] in Berlin. From 2018 to 2020, he also completed his studies in music informatics at the Institute for Music Informatics and Musicology at the University of Music Karlsruhe.

Career[edit]

Since 2023, he has been a lecturer at the Institute for New Music, Composition, and Conducting[4] at the University of Music and Theater Munich, as well as at the Institute for Music Informatics and Musicology[5] at the University of Music Karlsruhe.

For a short period, he also worked as an open-source software developer in the private sector. As a programmer, he has authored open-source software for music composition and music notation[6].

Teymuri's work includes music for both acoustic instruments as well as electroacoustic pieces[7][8].

Honours[edit]

  • 2004: Composition award, First National Biennale for New Music, University of Tehran
  • 2015: Scholarship of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
  • 2015: Artist in Residence, Center for Arts and Urbanistic, Berlin

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Amir Teymuri / CV". amte.codeberg.page. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
  2. ^ "Amir_Teymuri". www.adk.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-29.
  3. ^ "Amir Teymuri | People - ZK/U Berlin". www.zku-berlin.org (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-29.
  4. ^ "Amir Teymuri". HMTM (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-29.
  5. ^ "Amir Teymuri | Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe". hfm-karlsruhe.de. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
  6. ^ "The Python Package Index". PyPI. 2023-09-30. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
  7. ^ "Amir Teymuri – The Living Composers Project". www.composers21.com. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
  8. ^ "Amir Teymuri / Compositions". amte.codeberg.page. Retrieved 2024-05-29.