Name: Hormoz Farhat
Nationality: Persian/American
Profession: Composer, Ethnomusicologist, Music Professor
Education:
B.A. in Music, University of California, Los Angeles, 1953
M.A. in Musical Composition, Mills College, 1955
Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology & Composition, University of California, Los Angeles, 1965
Professional Career :
Assistant Professor of Music, California State University, Long Beach, 1961-64
Associate Professor of Music, University of California, Los Angeles, 1964-69
Professor and Head of Music Department, University of Tehran, 1970-76
Head, Music Council, National Iranian Radio and Television Network 1969-78
Visiting Professor of Music, Harvard University, 1972 & 1973
Vice-Chancellor, Farabi University, Tehran, 1976-77
Visiting Professor of Music, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1978-81
Professor and Head, School of Music, University of Dublin, 1981-95
Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Dublin, 1995- present
Overall External Examiner, Royal Irish academy of Music, 2001- present
Guest Lecturer at various institutions throughout the world including universities of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana; Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Durham, Amsterdam, Koln, Warsaw, Ljubljana, Copenhagen, Stockholm.
Compositions :
For Orchestra:
Sinfonia Concertante for Seven Solo Instruments, Soprano and Orchestra, 1954.
Mazandarani, a Rhapsody for Orchestra, 1958.
Theme and Variations, 1962.
Prelude and Fugue for String Orchestra, 1968.
Sinfonietta, 1970.
Three Songs of Sa'di for Soprano and Orchestra, 1972.
Fantasy and Fugue for String Orchestra, 1974.
Rhetorics for Piano and string Orchestra, 1977.
Flute Concerto, 1977.
Clarinet Concerto, 1978.
Sougue, an Elegy for Orchestra, 1981.
Chamber Music:
6 String Quartets (1953, 1962, 1967, 1979, 1981, 1993).
3 Wind Trios (1960, 1961, 1978).
Duo for Violin and Viola, 1963.
Divertimento for Saxophone Quartet, 1966.
Four Inter-related Pieces for Soprano Recorder and Piano, 1980.
Piano Quintet, 1980.
Partita for Wind Quintet, 1981.
For Piano:
Theme and Variations, 1951.
Persian Suite, (4 pieces) 1952.
Sonata, 1956
DeBeneville Pines, Suite of 5 Pieces, 1962.
Suite Gallante, (5 pieces) 1963.
Four Concert Etudes, 1963.
Summer Suite, 1979.
Three Persian Miniatures, 1984.
Sonatina, 1998.
24 Essays, 1998-9
Vocal Music:
Two Songs on Poems by Sa'di for Soprano, Violin and harp, 1957.
Be Yad-e Neyshapur, a Chain of Seven Songs on Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1959.
Three Persian Songs for Soprano, Flute, Cello and Piano, 1962.
Several pieces for a-cappella choir.
Motion Picture Scores:
Music for 3 short and 6 feature films produced in Persia.
Two of the feature films have received international acclaim and have been shown at various European and American film festivals.
Performances:
Works performed in the U.S., Germany, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, England, Austria, Ireland, and in Persia. Performances by Tehran Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, NIRT, National Sym. Orch. Of Ireland, Shiraz Festival, etc.
Publications :
Books:
Divertimento for Saxophone Quartet. Leblanc Music Publishers, Chicago, 1966.
The Traditional Art Music of Iran. Ministry of Culture and arts press, Tehran, 1973.
Counterpoint. University of Tehran Press, Tehran, 1974.
The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Dastgah dar Musiqi-ye Irani, (a translation by Mehdi PurMohammad of The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music), Part press, Tehran 2002.
Selected Articles:
"An Introduction to Persian Music", (in English and Persian), Shiraz Festival Publication, 1970.
" A New Look at the Theory of Persian Modes" (in Persian), Farhang-o Zendegi, Tehran, Sept. 1971.
" Iranian Dastgah", (a Review in English), Ethnomusicology. Sept. 1973.
" Persian Music", (in English), Catalogue of the Festival of Oriental Music, University of Durham, England, 1976.
" Old and New Values in Changing Cultural Patterns", Iran: Past. Present and Future. Aspen Institute, 1976.
64 articles in the Persian encyclopaedia, Daerattomaaref -e Farsi. Tehran, 1976.
The article on Iran in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, MacMillan, London, 1980.
" Scales and Intervals: Theory and Practice", Irish Musical Studies, G. Gillen and H. White, (eds.), Irish Academic Press, Dublin 1990.
Contributor to the Encyclopaedia Iranica, E. Yarshater, ed.
" Western Influences on Persian Music", Muzikolski Zbornik (Musicological Annual) XVII, Ljubljana, 1991.
" The Evolution of Style and Content in Performance Practices of Persian Traditional Music", Muzikoloski Zbornik (Musicological Annual) XXXIII, Ljubljana, 1997.
" Music", a critical review of all articles on music in Encyclopaedia Iranica, Iranian Studies, 1998.
7 articles in the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, MacMillan, London, 2001.
