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Recording of the Hossein's Piano Concertos 9th March 2016 – Salford Symphony Orchestra with students from the Royal Northern College of Music, recording Hossein's Piano Concertos. This was a collabaration with soloist Kiana Shafiei, who is a PhD student studying for a degree in Music Performance at the Royal Northern College of Music. The conductor was Edmon Levon, who is also studying at he Royal Northern College of Music for a Masters Degree in Orchestral Conducting.
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Hossein, Piano Concerto No. 1 (1946) 1st Mvt Hossein, Piano Concerto No. 3 (1974) 3rd Mvt
In addition to recording pieces from two of Hosseins' piano concertos, Kiana played a piece from each of Hossein's first three piano concertos at a Salford Symphony concert on the 20th March.
Sunday 20th March 2016 7:30pm
St Paul's Church, Moor Lane, Kersal Moor, Salford, M7 3WX
Conductor Edmon Levon
Soloist: Kiana Shafiei
Leader : Jon Henderson
Ketelbey: In a Persian Market
Hossein: Three pieces from three Piano Concerto
Schubert: Unfinished Symphony
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
| First Violins Jon Henderson Christine Clarkson Denise Doyle Eileen Stevens Jennifer Brierley Fiona Crowther Jim Beeson Cemil Egeli |
Second Violins Joanne Mellody Simon Caplan Bronwen Bevin Joe Brothy Nicholas Paxton Elizabeth Forest Sally Thompson Emily Peak |
Violas John Owen Ian Ward
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Cellos John Eaton Dave Collins Lee Carr Katy Gettings Mary Boulos |
Basses Malcolm McAllister Andrew Fielding
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Bassoons Trevor Marshall Nick Fox
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Horns Denis Carvill Sarah Birchall Walter Coupe Elaine Williams
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| Bass Trombone Nigel Kenyon |
Flutes/Piccolo Claire Taylor Clare Matthews |
Oboes/Cor Becky Stevens An-Lin Xu |
Clarinets Melanie Waddington Ruth Evans |
Timpani Irene Wynne-George |
Trumpets Chris Kay Peter Thickbroom |
Trombones Carole Williams Ian Mitchel |
| Tuba Keith Hatton |
Percussion Katharine Brown |
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Kiana Shafiei
KIANA SHAFIEI is an accomplished pianist, musicologist and speaker whose performances and presentation activities have taken her to various concert venues and institutions in the UK and overseas. She is currently undertaking a PhD degree in Music Performance at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester under the supervision of British composer David Horne and Australian pianist Stephen Savage.
Kiana has performed in many venues across the United Kingdom and Europe including Scotland, Italy, Austria, Portugal and Middle-East. She has also worked with world-renowned pianists such as Pascal Rogé, Michel Béroff, Philippe Cassard, Boris Berman, Paul Badura-Skoda, Andrew Zolinsky, Andrew Ball, Julian Jacobson, Ian Jones and others through master classes and festivals.
As a speaker, Kiana has given several talks and lecture-recitals in 2015 on her research work at several institutions including Cambridge University for the biennal conference “Symposia Iranica”, the Royal College of Music for the “Conservatoires UK Research Forum” and the “Nava Music Festival”, the Royal Northern College of Music’s “Research Forum” and at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire for the International Musicological Conference. In December Kiana gave a talk and performance for TEDxTehran.
She is the recipient of several piano competition awards including the Royal College of Music Concerto Competition Distinction award, the 1st Prize of the 12th Luigi Zanuccoli International Competition in Italy, three 1st Prizes of Fajr Music Festival in Iran, and others. In 2015 she was part of the jury panel for the Enkor International Piano Competition in Germany.
Kiana obtained her Master degree in Piano Performance in 2014 at the Royal College of Music in London where she studied piano with John Byrne. In 2012 she received her Bachelor of Arts degree with First Class Honours from Tehran University, faculty of Fine Arts, under the guidance of professor Raphael Minaskanian. Her piano studies began at the age of six with professor Gagik Babayan and later on with Peyman Yazdanian.
