Tehran University to host baroque concert

The ensemble Baroque Music Atelier of Tehran will perform a number of compositions by German baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann at the Iranian capital.

German multi-instrumentalist Telemann (1681-1767) will be honored with a performance of some of his baroque compositions during an event in the Tehran Art Gallery at the University of Tehran’s College of Fine Arts on May 24.

Select compositions from Telemann’s sonatas and trio-sonatas will be the highlights of the event.

Baroque Music Atelier of Tehran is an Iranian music ensemble under the leadership of French-Iranian composer Christophe Rezai. The repertoire of the ensemble focuses on medieval and baroque compositions.

The Wednesday performance is composed of a trio of musicians - pianist and harpsichordist Aydin Monem, violinist Amir Hossein Norouz Nasseri and flute recorder Farhoud Biglar Beigi.

Monem will play harpsichord at the event. He was a student of the pipe organ and other old keyboards at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in the UK.

Violinist of the ensemble, Nasseri, won first prize at the 9th National Festival of Youth Music held in 2015 in Tehran.

Flute recorder, Beigi, has been a music instructor since 2004.

The baroque style began around 1600 in Rome and Italy. It is often classified as a period of artistic style which used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, theatre, and music.

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