Iranian Artists Forum holds Loris Tjeknavorian retrospective

TEHRAN – The Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) held a retrospective of celebrated Iranian composer and conductor Loris Tjeknavorian on Thursday.

 

A number of musicians, including Hushng Kamkar and Farhad Fakhreddini, and filmmaker Khosrow Sinaii attended the opening ceremony of the event, the IAF announced in press release on Friday.

 

The IAF in collaboration with Iran’s House of Music arranged the program to familiarize youth with compositions by veterans such as Tjeknavorian, IAF Managing Director Majid Sarsangi said at the ceremony. 

 

The IAF plans to screen films of Tjeknavorian’s performances every month, he added.

 

In his short speech, Sinaii expressed his happiness over being an old friend of Tjeknavorian and added, “One cannot easily talk about works by Tjeknavorian, since there are so many. They are like an ocean. Days of research are needed to get to know works by Tjeknavorian.”

 

“I have been in close contact with artists, sculptors, painters and others for 60 years, and I know who an artist is. An artist is different from an individual who tries to be an artist by force, and the best artist is the one for whom art is like breathing, that is, he cannot breathe without art, and Tjeknavorian is one of them,” Sinaii stated.

 

Composer Hushang Kamkar called Tjeknavorian a professional conductor who is well aware of his job and said, “He is also a painter, a musician, or perhaps a filmmaker in the future.”

 

Tjeknavorian said that his words are his music and added, “I am happy you introduced me to myself, it seems that I do not know myself well with all these words [compliments].”

 

A lifetime achievement award was next handed to Tjeknavorian, and the film of his Rustam and Sohrab Opera was screened for the audience as the closing program of the ceremony.

 

 

 

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