Alireza Motevaseli

Alireza Motevaseli (Persian علیرضا متوسلی born 9 February 1992) is an Iranian musician.

Early life

He was born in Tehran, Iran. He earned a Music M.A. from Art University of Tehran, and a B.A Orchestral conducting. He is also a composer, bassoonist and pianist.

He started studying music by playing bassoon in 2002 at the Television & Radio of Islamic republic of Iran (IRIB) Music School. He studied bassoon performance with masters such as Taghi Zarrabi, Terry B. Ewell (US) and Alireza Sheibani.

Career

After graduating from music school, he worked with some of the best known orchestras in Iran such as Tehran Symphony Orchestra, Iran National Orchestra, IRIB Symphony Orchestra, and many others.

He worked as a bassoon soloist with Maestro Shahrdad Rohani and the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, performing Sinfonia Concertante K297b from W.A.Mozart at Vahdat Hall.

In late 2016, Motevaseli started to translate a series of videos about bassoon education into Persian.

Bassoon playing

He worked with Tehran Symphony Orchestra as principal bassoonist, led by Shahrdad Rouhani, Riccardo Muti, Alexander Rahbari, Alexander Rudin, Mark Stivenson, Nasir Heidarian, Nader Mashayekhi, Nader MortezaPour, Orwell Erdinç and Domina Jurana.

He performed with Mediant Trio led by Alvin Avanessian

He performed with IRIB Symphony Orchestra, led by the late Mohammad Biglari Pour.

He performed with the Parsian orchestra led by Aidin Ahmadinejad.

He performed with Tehran Chamber Orchestra, led by Nader Mashayekhi.

He performed with the Municipal Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Mohammad Hossein Hamidi.

He performed with the Rudaki Orchestra, led by (Nader Abbassi _Arash Amini).

He performed with Iran Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus under Alireza Shafaghi Nezhad.

In collaboration with the University Symphony Orchestra of IRIB.

Composer

He won First Prize of "Renaissance" Gyumri International Music Festival 2017 from the ministry of Culture of Armenia & Municipality of Yerevan and the jury from Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan.

By the decision of the board chair of Seattle Symphony for supporting the 7 countries whose citizens were banned from traveling to the US, a performance was held to support those countries. Motevaseli participated on this concert as an Iranian Composer and was the youngest composer to be selected. The concert opened with his composition Fantasia for Santoor and Accordion.

His Fantasia has been acknowledged and performed by Seattle Symphony to celebrate Asia Composition competition on January

28th, 2016. At Fadjr International Music festival he won first prize of the Subjective Music Composition.