Oliver Fartach-Naini Explained

Instrument:Guitar
Oliver Fartach-Naini
Birth Date:7 August 1964
Birth Place:Scherzingen, Switzerland
Occupation:Guitarist, teacher
Years Active:1992 - present
Website:ethnoclassics.com
Background:non_vocal_instrumentalist

Oliver Fartach-Naini (born 1964) is a German guitarist living in Australia where he teaches at the Elder Conservatorium of Music,[1] University of Adelaide. He is regularly involved in organising festivals and performing classical guitar for the public.[2]

Biography

Oliver Fartach-Naini was nine when his German mother separated from his father and left Tehran. She took him to Germany. He studied classical guitar at the Music School Berlin-Wedding from 1987 to 1991, with Christian Bänsch, and then graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts under Carlo Domeniconi, and with Laurie Randolph with a degree in music education. He attended the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, again with Randolph, and received his artist diploma.

He worked as a guitar teacher at the music school Berlin-Wedding. With Korean guitarist Lee Song-Ou, a fellow student from Berlin, he formed a guitar duo in 1991, and they have recorded CDs so far, the last in 2007 with Deutsche Grammophon with compositions by Franz Schubert, with Richard Yongjae O'Neill (viola) and Jong-Ho Park (guitar).

Since 1994 he has performed with Thea Nielsen (flute), playing classical as well as Persian and Indian music. Composer Majid Derakhshani, who composed several pieces for the duo. With Iranian Amir Abbas they formed the ensemble "Didar", which in 2004 recorded the CD Live in Berlin.

Fartach-Naini plays tango music as well; in 2003 his ensemble "Tango Concertante" (saxophone, violin, guitar, piano, double bass) recorded the CD Tangos sin palabras.

He moved to Adelaide (Australia), where he teaches guitar at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, at the University of Adelaide. He also organized a festival, "1st Adelaide Chamber Music School for Flute, Violin and Guitar", with six lecturers from five countries in 2006.[3]

Oliver Fartach-Naini performs as a soloist,[4] in duo with Korean guitarist Professor Lee Song-Ou,[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] German flautist Thea Nielsen[11] [12] [13] and as a member of the quintet "Tango Concertante".[14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

Recordings

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Staff Directory | Dr Oliver Fartach-Naini.
  2. For example he has organised festivals and performed classical guitar:
  3. Rainer Stelle: Gitarristen, die von Berlin aus aufbrachen, um für die Gitarre zu wirken, in: Die klassische Gitarre im 20. Jahrhundert (edited by Peter Ansorge and Helmut Richter), Schriften der EGTA D, Band 1, Oberhausen 2010, page 166. ISBN 978-3-00-029920-9
  4. Web site: The Annual Glebe Music Festival.
  5. Web site: | Kryztoff RAW.
  6. Web site: Poeten auf Saiten.
  7. Web site: ::: TicketLink ::: . 2014-03-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140329024122/http://theater.ticketlink.co.kr/detail/place_end01.jsp?pro_cd=B0037022 . 2014-03-29 .
  8. Web site: Latino America Viva: Festival Internacionald de Guitarra de Adelaide 2012 . 2014-03-28 . 2014-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140328215848/http://latinoamericaenaustralia.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/festival-internacionald-de-guitarra-de.html . dead .
  9. http://preview8.awardspace.com/classicalguitarsydney.org.au/guitar_news_41_sep_03.pdf
  10. Web site: 공연안내 | 안동문화예술의전당 . 2014-03-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140328204052/http://old.andongart.go.kr/Package/program_basic/calendar/ex_calendar.php?type=read&bbscode=bbs4_show01&num=115 . 2014-03-28 .
  11. Web site: 제목 없음 . 2014-03-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140328222835/http://guitarnews.net/menu/?sort=read&db=1&num=79 . 2014-03-28 .
  12. Web site: El Tango y sus invitados.
  13. Web site: ♫ Songtexte.de - Kostenlose Songtexte, Lyrics & Übersetzungen.
  14. Web site: CD-Reviews www.inmusic2000.de.
  15. Web site: Tango Concertante - Tangos sin palabras.
  16. Web site: Carus-Verlag Stuttgart - Konzerte im Verlag . 2014-03-28 . 2014-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140328233604/http://www.carus-verlag.com/index.php3?BLink=VerlagskonzerteMai2003 . dead .
  17. Web site: Tango Concertante - Stuttgarter Nachrichten . 2014-03-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140329024312/http://content.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/stn/page/detail.php/423778 . 2014-03-29 .
  18. Web site: CD Tango Concertante: Tangos Sin Palabras . 2014-03-28 . 2014-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140328222011/http://www.dym-tango.de/cd/tango-concertante-tangos-sin-palabras.html . dead .

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