About Us
The online journal of HarmonyTalk is the longest-standing Persian journal on music in the whole world.
HarmonyTalk was launched on April 7, 2003 as a weblog on music by Kamran Vatan Abadi. After 100 days, more authors were called upon to contribute to the weblog which was then transformed into a daily journal on music. Up until 2006, VatanAbadi was the Editor-in-Chief; a post which was assumed by Sadjad Pourghanad in the same year and has been retained by him so far. The Senior Editor for the English HarmonyTalk is Mahboube Khalvati who is also one of the translators of the journal in Persian.
More than 250 prominent music writers have so far published their writings on “Harmony Talk”.
At the English HarmonyTalk we seek to share with our English-speaking readers the knowledge and the experience of HarmonyTalk’s authors as well as the Iranian musicians’ of not only the Iranian classical music but also the Western classical music and the world music.
The English HarmonyTalk is updated on the 1st day of every month. So keep up with us!
Born in Isfahan, Iran, and based in the UK, Farhad Poupel’s music has been performed and will be performed in numerous prestigious concert halls and festivals throughout the world including Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan; La Roque-d’Anthéron Piano Festival, La Roque-d’Anthéron, France; Biarritz Festival, Biarritz, France; Stoller Hall, Manchester, UK; Janacek academy of music and…
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Davoud Pirnia, writer and musicologist was the founder of “Golha” (Flowers of Persian Song and Music) programs on Tehran Radio (1956-1966). He received his early education from his father, Hassan Pirnia (Moshir al-Douleh), and several tutors of the time (Taraghi, interview, July 1989) and continued his studies at Saint Louis School in Tehran and then in Switzerland and graduated in law. While studying law, Pirnia got acquainted with European classical music. Upon returning to Iran, he was employed by the Ministry of Justice and founded the Lawyers’ Guild. Then he was transferred to the Ministry of Finance and established the Department of Statistics in this ministry. Later, he became the head of the state inspection office at the Prime Ministry; he was, then, promoted to the position of the Deputy Prime Minister (Navab Safa, interview, August 1999)