ALIREZA

“Tracing down his childhood memories, Iran born composer and multi-instrumentalist Alireza Toghiyani recalls his first encounter with music as being extremely haptic – as the son of an instrument maker who has ever since specialized in building the Santur (Persian dulcimer) he has been surrounded by materials which were to become well balanced instruments.
Listening to his music one inevitably takes notice of his sensibility in treating instruments, extracting their most unusual and magical sounds.
His academic background and his subsequent withdrawal from the world of academia as well as his latest venture into electronics add to the versatility of his musical approaches which always seem to oscillate between intuitive play and the purest form of composition.”

Clemens Sellaoui

ALIREZA

“Tracing down his childhood memories, Iran born composer and multi-instrumentalist Alireza Toghiyani recalls his first encounter with music as being extremely haptic – as the son of an instrument maker who has ever since specialized in building the Santur (Persian dulcimer) he has been surrounded by materials which were to become well balanced instruments.
Listening to his music one inevitably takes notice of his sensibility in treating instruments, extracting their most unusual and magical sounds.
His academic background and his subsequent withdrawal from the world of academia as well as his latest venture into electronics add to the versatility of his musical approaches which always seem to oscillate between intuitive play and the purest form of composition.”

Clemens Sellaoui

Awards and Scholarships

2020

Projektstipendium hessische Kulturstiftung, (Performance)

2020

Arbeitsstipendium Covid-19, MA7, (Installation und Komposition)

2019

Kompositionsförderung der Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien, MA7

2017

Workshop Stipendien für ImPulsTanz-Festival von Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien

2016

Startstipendium des Bundeskanzleramt Österreich (Sparte Musik)

2012 – 2015

Stipendiat des Mozart Vereins, Wien

2013

Finalist Fideliowettbewerb, Wien

Education

2016 – 2018

Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien Studienfach: Komposition (MA)
bei Dirk D‘Ase

2015 – 2017

Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien Studienfach: Transmediale Kunst (Dip.)
bei Brigitte Kowanz

2011 – 2016

Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien Studienfach: Komposition (BA)
bei Dirk D‘Ase
Abschluss: Bachelor of Arts

2005 – 2007

Musikabitur in Teheran, Schwerpunkt: Bratsche