Mohammad-Reza Darvishi
Mohammad-Reza Darvishi is an Iranian musician, researcher, and author of Encyclopedia of the Musical Instruments of Iran, a Klaus P. Wachsmann Prize-winner book about Iranian musical instruments.
Works
Music
Film music
A selection of M. R. Darvishi's film scores- 2012 Parinaz
- 2009 Mizak
- 2009 The White Meadows
- 2009 When we are all Asleep
- 2008 The green fire
- 2008 Lady of the Roses
- 2006 Crossing the Dust
- 2006 Slowly...
- 2006 The Talking Carpet
- 2004 Stray Dogs
- 2003 Joy of Madness
- 2003 Two Angels
- 2003 Osama
- 2003 At Five in the Afternoon
- 2002 11'09"01 September 11
- 2002 The Afghan Alphabeth
- 2001 Kandahar
- 2001 The Unfinished Song
- 2000 The Day I Became a Woman
- 2000 Blackboards
- 1998 A Bag of Rice
Music for theatre plays
- 2003 Shab-e hezār-o-yekom
- 2004 Afrā yā Ruz migozarad
- 2005 ''Majles-e shabih. Dar zekr-e masāyeb-e ostād Navid Mākān va hamsarash mohandes-e Roxshid-e Farzin''
Tapes and CDs
Some of his Cassettes and CDs are:- In the memory of Eqbāl. Tehrān: Harp, 1984
- Morning Melody. Tehrān: Arvin, 1997
- Abdolqāder Marāqi, Shouqnāme
- Mazandarani Music, for song and orchestra, song by Abolhassan Khoshroo and Nourolah Alizadeh, 1983
- Winter, for song and symphonic orchestra, song by Shahram Nazeri
- The season of flower, for song and symphonic orchestra, song by Iraj Bastami
- The aster dome, for song and orchestra, sung by Mohammad Reza Shajariyan
- The soul of the lovers, for song and orchestra, sung by Mohammad Reza Shajariyan
- Music album of seven thrones
- Music album of north of Khorasan
- Mirror and song, music album
- Bag of rice: Music from the movies: “Bag of rice”, “The song of the Nimvar Field” and “Karde”, 1999
- Music from the movies: “The Blackboard” & “The day I became a woman”, 2001
- Zaman = Era, 2019
Selected bibliography
- Bist tarāne-ye mahalli-ye Fārs. Tehrān: Harp; later: Mahoor: 1994
- Haft ourang. Tehrān: Art Center
- Negāh be qarb : bahsi dar ta'sir-e musiqi-ye Qarb bar musiqi-ye Irān. Tehrān: Māhoor
- Sonnat va bigānegi-ye farhang dar musiqi-ye Irān. Tehran: Māhur
- Moqaddamei bar shenāxt-e musiqi-ye navāhi-ye Irān. Daftar-e naxost: Manāteq-e jonub . Tehrān: Māhur
- Dar bāre-ye honar va adabiyāt. Tehrān: Āvishan, Gouharzād
- Nourouzxāni. Tehrān: Arvin, 62 p.
- Āiine va āvāz. Tehrān: Art Center
- Musiqi va xalse : zekrhā-ye marāsem-e Gowāti-ye Baluchestān. Tehrān: Māhour, 55 p.
- Az miyān-e sorudhā va sokuthā : gozide-ye neweshtār wa goftār-e.... Tehrān: Māhur, 296 p.
- Dāyerat’ol-ma’āref-e sāzhā-ye Irān. Jeld 1: Sāzhā-ye zehi-ye mezrābi va ārshei-ye navāhi-ye Irān = Encyclopedia of the Musical Instruments of Iran. Vol. 1. Chordophones in Regional Music. Tehrān: Māhoor
- Dāyerat’ol-ma’āref-e sāzhā-ye Irān. Jeld 2: Pustsedāhā va xodsedāhā-ye navāhi-ye Irān = Encyclopedia of the Musical Instruments of Iran. Vol. 2. Membranophones and Idiophones of Regional Music. Tehrān: Māhoor
- Sāzshenāsi-ye irāni. Tehān, 256 p. - together with Arfa' Atrāii
- Goftegu bā Mohammad Rezā Darvishi dar bāre-ye musiqi-ye Irān
- Jāmedarān : selsele-ye mu-ye dust
- Leyli kojāst : ta'amolāt-e kutāh wa parākande dar musiqi va farhang
- Musiqi-ye hamāsi-ye Irān : gozide-ye maqālāt.
- Mousum-Gol
Awards
- October 2002 - SEM’s award for the best publication of the year on musical instruments, granted by Bruno Nettl, for The Encyclopaedia of the Iranina Musical Instruments, vol.1
- 2000, The music for Kandahar (2001 film) was nominated the best foreign film music, among the others, by Bonn biennial festival of film music, Germany.
- 2005, Nomination for achievement of UNESCO’s award for the greatest musician worldwide.