Tolib Shakhidi
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Tajikistan
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, Russia
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n, and Soviet
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composer who was born in the city of Dushanbe
Dushanbe
-Economy:Coal, lead, and arsenic are mined nearby in the cities of Nurek and Kulob allowing for the industrialization of Dushanbe. The Nurek Dam, the world's highest as of 2008, generates 95% of Tajikistan's electricity, and another dam, the Roghun Dam, is planned on the Vakhsh River...
, Tajik SSR
Tajik SSR
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. He is a son of the founder of Professional Tajik Academic Music - Ziyodullo Shakhidi.
Tolib-khon Shakhidi began his musical career at the age of fourteen. He graduated from the Musical College in Dushanbe in 1965 from the Composition Class of Uri Ter-Osipov. In the same year, he entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory
Moscow Conservatory
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. During his student years in Moscow
Moscow
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, he strove to be at the centre of musical activities. Conductors such as Mikhail Terion and Maxim Shostakovich
Maxim Shostakovich
Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich is a Russian conductor and pianist. He was the second child of Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar.Since 1975, he has conducted and popularised many of his father's lesser-known works....
performed his orchestral and instrumental compositions.
In 1972 Tolib Shakhidi graduated from the Moscow Conservatory
Moscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...
from the class of Aram Khachaturian
Aram Khachaturian
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...
. 'Tolib, your time is precious,' wrote the famous master on Shakhidi's graduation photograph – and since then, this has become the composer's fundamental belief both in life and in his creative work.
From 1972 to this day, Tolib Shakhidi has participated in a number of music festivals and has striven to produce innovative and powerful compositions. His music attempts to create a synthesis between East and West. His brilliant understandings of orchestration and familiarity with different musical styles have firmly established him in the contemporary music scene.
Working in a number of different genres, including theatre and cinema, Shakhidi's compositions often serve as the vehicle for the musical representation of intensely powerful plays. Drawing inspiration from playwrights such as Sophocles
Sophocles
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and Shakespeare, Shakhidi's compositions capture the listener's imagination much as a dramatic representation would.
A master of different genres, including operas, ballets, symphonies and instrumental compositions, his work represents a unique fusion of the very best of the European and Asian musical traditions. He is a contemporary artist, whose world outlook transcends national boundaries. In this capacity, he regularly participates and has a great success in International festivals of Contemporary Music in Europe
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and U.S.
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(1987, 2001), in Japan
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, Baltic States
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, Central Asia
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, Iran
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and Turkey
Turkey
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. The musical pieces of the composer have been performed by such orchestras as Philadelphia
Philadelphia Orchestra
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& Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays most of its concerts at Boston's Symphony Hall and in the summer performs at the Tanglewood Music Center...
, State Symphonic Orchestra of USSR, Orchestra of Valery Gergiev
Valery Gergiev
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.- Early life :Gergiev,...
, Bolshoy Symphonic Orchestra of Russia
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n.a. Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
, Orchestra of Cinematography conducted by Sergey Skripka, Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
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State Philharmonic Orchestra n.a Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
.
Musicians such as cello performer Yo Yo Ma, violinist Sergey Kravtchenko and French saxophone player Pierre Stephane Meuge have performed the music of the master. He also has worked with conductors among which are Maxim Shostakovich
Maxim Shostakovich
Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich is a Russian conductor and pianist. He was the second child of Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar.Since 1975, he has conducted and popularised many of his father's lesser-known works....
, Dmitry Kitaenko, Charles Ansbacher, Mark Ermler, Sergey Skripka, Michael Terian, Dzhansug Kakhidze, Vladimir Kozhukhar, Valery Gergiev
Valery Gergiev
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.- Early life :Gergiev,...
, Zakhid Khaknazarov, Eldar Azimov and Bijan Khadem-Missagh.
"Taste, intellect, professionalism are the three main values of contemporary music" . This aphorism, expressed by the composer fully complies with his own creative work. Tolib Shahidi represents a very rare type of Universal master-composer, who possesses the whole arsenal of contemporary musical language, yet uses the richest resources of traditional Eastern music of his region.
This twin pillar is not an obstacle, but the most important source of his artistic power and originality.
List of major works:
- 1975 - «Festival»—symphonic poem
- 1978 - «Death of usurer»—suite of ballet
- 1978 - «Tajiks»—symphony N 2
- 1980 - «Rubai of Khaiam»—film ballet
- 1981 - "Charkh" - symphony for chamber orchestra
- 1981 - Sonata N 1 for piano
- 1981 - «Recitative of Rumi»—suite for flute and piano
- 1984 - «Sado»—symphonic poem
- 1988 - «Caliph-stork»—operas for children
- 1989 - «Karlic-nose»—operas for children
- 1989 - «Beauty yosif» - ballet
- 1991 - Sonata N 2 for piano
- 1991 - Sonata N 2 for piano and chamber orchestra
- 1992 - «Siavush»—ballet,
- 1993 - «Beauty and Monster»—opera
- 1993 - Concert for violin and chamber orchestra
- 1994 - Concert N 3 for piano and orchestra
- 1997 - Concert N 1 for string orchestra,
- 1998 - «Firdavsiada»—concert N 2 for string orchestra
- 1998 - «Sufi-dancer»—music for 15 instruments
- 1998 - «Istanbul-capriccio»—for saxophone and chamber orchestra.
- 1999 - «Dobro vam»—vocal cycle for tenor and symphonic orchestra. Poems of Hofiz, Gete, Pushkin
- 1999 - «Amir Ismoil»—opera
- 2000 - «Silk road dreams dancing» — septet
- 2000 - «Pictures under moon» for R. Finn poem. Soprano and chamber orchestra
- 2001 - «Algorismus marimba + » — sixtet
- 2001 - «Contrasts in 55»
- 2001 - «Contrasts»—music for violin and piano
- 2002 - «King Lear»—music for tragedy of Shakespeare
- 2002 - «Persian Suite»—music for string orchestra
- 2002 - «Sufi and Budha»—pictures etude for piano
- 2004 - «Concerto Grosso N3»—for santur violino solo and chamber orchestra
- 2005 - «Contrast of times» — vocal cycle for soprano and symphonic orchestra, words of Pole Valery and Rekan
- 2007 - «Birds talking»—suite for three flute
- 2008 - «Adagio»—for violoncello - solo in remembrance of Aram KhachaturianAram KhachaturianAram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...
- 2008 - Allegro IN 5»— for chamber ensemble
- 2008 - Four retro miniature for chorus A- Capella in remembrance of Ziyodullo Shakhidi
- 2008 - "Playing Backgammon" - for piano
- 2009 - VERDI-SHAKHIDI - parafraz, for piano from opera Traviata
- 2010 - Concert for clarinet and orchestra
List of CDs published:
- Concert featuring works of Tolibkhon Shakhdi, Live (2006), Tchaikovsky Hall DVD+CD
- CD featuring works of Tolibkhon Shakhidi. Symphonic Music (2004), Double CD
- Symphonic music and ballet extracts (2002), Single CD
- Great Hall of Moscow State Conservatoire (1999), Single CD
- Symphonic music (1997), Single CD