Badie Khaleghian is an Iranian contemporary music composer, who incorporates western and eastern music. He was born in Kerman, Iran in 1985. He started his journey with violin with his father at age of 7, and piano with Safa Shahidi. He studied piano performance at Baha’i Institute of Higher Education in Tehran Iran. In January 2014 he came to U.S. as a religious refugee. He studies music composition at University of Georgia with Dr. Adrian Childs, and electronic music with Dr. Peter Van Zandt Lane and piano with Dr. Liza Stepanova. His music is influenced by culture, society, and personal emotions, and he is interested in using middle-eastern modes and micro tonality in his music. Badie has composed for a wide variety of instrumental and vocal combinations in addition to his work in electronic music. His music has performed at Georgia, Illinois, Austria, and Iran. He currently works on large-scale orchestral piece, a saxophone quartet, and choir and live electronics.

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Master's degree in composition from Iran University of Art

The topic of the theoretical thesis: Comparison of the relationship between harmonics and microtones of Iranian music and microtones of spectral music (with changes and additions printed in Rooz Amad publication entitled: Spectral and instrumental music of Iran from the perspective of harmonics)

Practical thesis topic:
Passacaglia for symphonic orchestra
 
tanbur(Iranian_kurdish), dutar and taar player(multi instrumentalist)
Compositions:

Composition of 7 pieces for piano, piece for string trio (recorded with the Respina Quartet), piece for solo violin (performed at University of Tehran), piece for solo horn (selected for performance at the 4th Tehran Contemporary Music Festival), composition for solo flute, Spectral piece for 16 solist musicians , "More important details" for cello and four lines of electronic waves.

Recording in the studio:
Two pieces for piano: played by Parsa Riahi, Karen Selajgeh
Miniature piece for solo violin: performed by Farmehr Biglo (player of Tehran Symphony Orchestra)
Recording of a string trio with the musicians of the Respina group
The documentary music of Andoh Jangal by Mrs. Maryam Razzaghi for strings and samples of string orchestra

Composing films and documentaries and sound design and live performances:
Designing more than 20 etudes for electronic music, 35 etudes for korg volca modular synthesizer
taar solo performance on the 80th anniversary of the University of Tehran at Farabi campus, music selection for the documentary of the journalist of the revolution directed by Hossein Zulfiqari for the radio, composing music for the short film life by Elham Ahmadi, music for the theater Twenty Minutes in Solitary Cell directed by Alireza Zare (Performance at Farabi Campus of Tehran University), music and sound design for the documentary "The Sadness of the Forest" by Maryam Razaghi, sound design for a short film by Amir Hossein Marzban

Mastery of notation software and DAWs:
sibelius, adobe audition, logic pro x, ableton live, maxmspjitter, audio sculpt, vcv rack and mi rack.



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Marcus Karl Maroney studied composition and horn at The University of Texas at Austin and Yale School of Music. His principle composition teachers were Joseph Schwantner, Ned Rorem and Joan Tower. In 1999, he received a fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center, the First Hearing award from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and an ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer’s award. Other awards and fellowships followed, including: a Charles Ives Scholarship from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, a residency at the Copland House and consecutive Woods Chandler Memorial awards from Yale University.

Commissions have come from such organizations and individuals as eighth blackbird , the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Timothy McAllister, the Moores School Percussion Ensemble, the Texas Music Festival, the Deer Valley Music Festival and the Juventas! New Music Ensemble. Three Pieces for Sting Orchestra was recently premiered by the Utah Symphony, and he was recently named the winner of the inaugural College Orchestra Directors Association Composition Contest. 

Mr. Maroney served on the faculty of the Yale School of Music from 2002-2004. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music and on the Artistic Board of Musiqa, a composer-led contemporary music group based in Houston.

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