Azin Movahed

Azin Movahed After graduating from the U.S. in 1993, moved to Iran and began teaching young musicians. Her longstanding desire for serving her country, Iran, led her be employed at the Faculty of Music at University of Tehran in 1994 and currently, she is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Music and the head of School of Performing Arts and Music at the campus of Fine Arts. She was born in 1960 and she began studying music at the International Iran Zamin School and she received her bachelor’s and master’s in Playing Flute from University of California under supervision of Irene Gluck and Raymond Fabrizio and she received her Ph.D. in playing from University of Illinois under supervision of Alexander Mary (CNSM, Premiere Prix, 1952). At the same time, she began to learn music theories under supervision of Bruno Nettel, Ellen Sekai and Alex Ringer in musicology and Steven Gilbert and Bill Brooks in theory and she participated in the music playing classes of famous players of her time such as Jean-Pierre Rampal, Peter Lucas Graff and Allan Marion. During the year 1988 to 1991, she participated in Alexander Technique Teacher Training Course in the U.S. and she received her diploma in this field in 1991. She is the only official teacher of this technique in the Middle East and this technique is among the main principles of her teaching methodology in playing music. In 2001, she won the Yarshater Scholarship from Harvard University and she finished her postdoc in music psychology and music playing sciences. Her studies in western classical music interpretation is on codifying pedagogic methods for teaching layers of interpretation in playing western classical music. Azin Movahed is the first Iranian woman who has held public ocnerts in various halls in Tehran after Iranian 1979 Revolution and she has been highly active in introducing prominent works of flute to Iranians. She is the founder of Iran Flute Association and she has been the referee of youth competitions, Fadjr and student festivals and she has taught in Fresno, Portland and Illinois in the U.S., Ionian University in Greece and Afghanistan National Music Institute and she has performed in Greece, the U.S., Austria and Afghanistan.