Kambiz Roshanravan

Roshanarvan immediately after his service, he based his determination on the fact that he must go to the United States to continue his education. Earlier, his composition teacher (Thomas Christian David) at the University of Tehran had advised him to go to Austria with him and continued his studies at the Vienna Academy of Music. But Roshanarvan knew that the level of education at the Vienna School was in the 18th and 19th centuries, and because he wanted to study contemporary and twentieth-century music, he believed that American or French universities were a better place to learn the style. He corresponded with various prestigious American universities for admission, and his application for a master's degree was accepted in all options. But he got into trouble again; Upon learning of this, conservatory officials secretly asked Mehrdad Pahlbod, the Minister of Culture and Arts, whose brother (Commander Minabashian) was the commander of the army's ground forces, not to issue an end-of-service card until an alternative teacher was found. Thus, Roshanvarvan lost the academic year, and when he became aware of the actions of the directors of the conservatory, he finally succeeded in obtaining a permit to leave the country by receiving a termination card, and after a six-month trip to London to learn English and return to Iran left the country for the United States to study at the University of Southern California (USC) a year late without informing the conservatory.

With the passage of time and the establishment of educational centers, the production of albums, films and serials was added to the activities of Kambiz Roshanvarvan. In addition to composing for albums, stage music and cinema, he has been widely used in prestigious educational centers such as: music conservatories (girls and boys), academy of arts, faculty of fine arts, Islamic center of film education, faculty of radio and television, faculty of cinema, theater, university Tarbiat Modarres, University of Arts, Islamic Azad University and… has taught in the field of music and cinema. He has made continuous efforts in the field of education and composition, and has been praised many times during his artistic life and has won numerous awards from various domestic and foreign festivals. Also in 2004, he was awarded a first-class degree in art by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Because of his years of experience in teaching, writing books, publishing pamphlets, articles, and scientific lectures, he is referred to as an expert musician in theoretical and harmonious discourses.

In 1993, with the establishment of the Cinema House, independent guild institutions were formed in various fields of cinema. He also took the initiative in this direction and with the help of some of his colleagues, he established an organization called the Iranian Cinema Composers Association and after that he concentrated his activity in the cinema house. After a while, in addition to being the president of the Composers' Association, he became a member of the board of directors of the Cinema House (1998-1999) and for a few years he was the managing director of the "Cinema Magazine" (1998-2002). After his success at the Cinema House and the gathering of famous film music composers in a guild, in 1999 he was invited by the Director General of Music of the Ministry of Guidance to establish a music house for other music disciplines with the help of his colleagues. He was a member of the founding board of the House of Music, and after its formation, he was elected as a member and chairman of the board. He gradually reduced his activity in the cinema house and increased his activity in the music house. For this reason, from 2001 to 2004, he was elected as the director of the "Teachers' Association" and from 2004 to 2006, he was elected as the director of the "Association of Composers and Orchestra Conductors". He also co-founded the House of Artists as a member of the founding board and board of directors, thus completing his collaboration and union activities in forming and establishing three artistic houses by writing various bylaws and statutes and accepting responsibilities.

Kambiz Roshanvarvan's activities in the music community are not limited to guild work and he is present in many festivals and cultural centers as a member of the jury or expert, such as: Member of the jury of Fajr Music Festivals (1989-2000), Jury of Young Music Festivals (1991-2003), the jury of the Holy Defense Music Festivals (1991-2004), the chairman of the jury of the first music festival for the disabled (2000) and a member of the jury of the Cinema House Festival. He has also been the Vice-Chairman of the UNESCO-affiliated National Music Committee in Iran. Finally, in 2006, when he was employed by the Radio and Television University, he retired, after which he resigned from most of his union and artistic responsibilities. He attributed this to the fatigue caused by years of constant activity, and said that he intends to rejuvenate the ideas and work left behind by composing and composing, as well as being with his family. An opportunity that had not been created for him in previous years.

Following his involvement in film music, Roshanravan entered into negotiations with cultural authorities in order to persuade them to grant him and other composers an album production license. Eventually, the officials of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance agreed to publish such works in a very limited way, but many obstacles were created and these obstacles extended to the radio and television. The use of rhythms such as six and eight and forms such as color, four beats and the making of any dance and joyful song were prohibited in these productions and the choice of poetry was also censored. However, despite many difficulties, he finally managed to release his first exclusive and orchestral album after the revolution, in 1983-84, under the name of Yadegare Doost with the voice of Shahram Nazeri. In the following years, in addition to collaborating with Mohammad Reza Shajarian and Shahram Nazeri, he has composed or arranged songs for other singers such as: Alireza Eftekhari, Bijan Bijani, Mohammad Esfahani, Alireza Ghorbani and...

At the beginning of the 1981s, universities were reopened and he joined the Radio and Television University in 1982. During this time, film production gradually flourished, and composers were able to work in film music. Roshanvarvan was one of the first composers in this genre after the revolution, and soon other people entered the field. In the sixties, he became known as one of the most prolific film music makers and left works such as: Ambassador, Chrysanthemums, Cold Roads, Amir Kabir, Shah Shekar and..

In early 1980, the Cultural Revolution was taking shape. Roshan Ravan was teaching at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran at the time, and at the same time, he witnessed people attacking the university, destroying, beating, and breaking glass. Eventually the universities were closed and he became unemployed. He says about this: "... Because I had nothing to do, I would go around the university every day curiously to see what would happen and where the work would end up … What currents and events I did not witness… I witnessed the book burning festival…They broke the glass of bookstores…This was not something I returned to Iran for, and it was really impossible for me to believe it." Now all avenues for his work had come to a standstill; So, in consultation with his wife, they decided to leave Iran and go back to the United States to continue their education and teaching there, but the closure of the US embassy delayed obtaining a visa for three months. The visa was issued when the Iran-Iraq war broke out and all air borders were closed following the bombing of Mehrabad airport. Thus, he stayed in Tehran and his trip did not end.

With the start of the war and the beginning of a new era in the life of Kambiz Roshanravan by staying in Iran, he wanted to improve and prosper music production in any way. In 1980, he first turned to film music and composed the first post-revolutionary soundtrack for Storm Wave and then Bloody Rice, for which he did not receive a salary. Then, about five months after the start of the war, with the help of his former friends and classmates: Mohammad Shams, Esmail Tehrani and Esmail Vaseghi, he produced a joint album on the Iran-Iraq war called Sacrifice Season with the voice of Siamak Aligholi, which was published by Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults.

Kambiz Roshanravan left the 1980s behind with a lot of work in the field of education and composition. At this time, in the early 1990s, he felt that the conservatories were not responding to the large number of new music applicants and students, and that new private schools needed to be established. He decided to enter into negotiations with the cultural authorities, and in this way he succeeded, and by attending the councils and accepting some responsibilities, such as membership in the Central Council for Supervision of Free Art Schools, the High Council of Art Conservatories, the High Council of Music (Ministry of Culture and Guidance Islamic), the Council for Planning and Supervision of Music Education of the Radio and Television of Iran, the Art Planning Committee of the Cultural Revolution Headquarters, accelerated this matter and in 1998, established a private school. He says that as a result of this work, as long as he was on the councils (2006), he led to the creation and licensing of a large number of music schools across the country.

At the time of the Islamic Revolution, Kambiz Roshanravan was studying in the United States. Influenced by the events in Iran, he decided to compose his dissertation with the name and theme of Bloody Friday (Lament for the Martyrs of September 8) in the style of avant-garde music. He, who wanted to continue his doctoral studies and while his scholarship was cut, left the graduation ceremony and the ceremony of receiving the first prize for composing, returned to Iran with his wife in December 1979. He said: "Many university professors insisted that I not return to Iran. They said that music was not in a good condition in Iran at the moment due to the revolution. The family also said that I should not return to Iran. I preferred my country to everything, I could not stand it anymore and I wanted to return to my homeland as soon as possible."

Kambiz Roshanravan's professional activity during this period can be divided into three parts: playing, teaching and composing. In addition to teaching, he continued to expand his activities by playing in concerts, collaborating with the National Television Orchestra of Iran, the Saba Orchestra led by Hossein Dehlavi, and other music groups. He also started composing along with his other activities and performed some of his compositions in the same concerts. In 1974, at the request of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, He released his first works in the form of an album with the names: Blue-eyed Boy, Atal Matal Tutuleh and Music based on the poems of Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr. In the same year, he entered the world of cinema by composing the first soundtrack for the short film Passenger, made by Abbas Kiarostami. In 1975, he wrote, prepared, supervised, performed and published ten phonograph disc records of Radif's sung by Mohammad Reza Shajarian and famous traditional musicians of that time, based on the row of Musa Maroofi. He also collaborated with other filmmakers in 1975 and 1976, including Nafiseh Riahi (Purple Pencil), Amir Naderi (elegy) and Khosrow Haritash (Kingdom), and was able to establish himself as a composer.

After graduating, Roshanrovan entered the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran in 1967. There he chose composition as his main field and in the presence of masters such as Houshang Ostvar (Harmony), Mehdi Barkashli (phonetics), Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh (ethnomusicology) and Alireza Mashayekhi (Form and Analysis), he studied various fields of music, but specialized courses. But he took specialized courses with Thomas Christian David (composition and flute) and Emanuel Melik-Aslanian (piano). While attending university, he continued his educational activities and concerts, which began in his final years at the conservatory. In addition to teaching at the Academy of Arts, he performed in various cities with the Tombak Quartet Ensemble, which he had founded since his time at the Conservatory. He also became a member of the flute soloist in the Majlis Orchestra of the National Television of Iran and held several concerts. At the university, he collaborated with student music groups with various instruments in which he specialized, and the result was the performance of his own works and those of classical music composers. In addition, the same conservatory from which he had graduated immediately invited him to collaborate and teach, and thus, during his student days, while teaching at the conservatory and other educational centers, holding various concerts and learning to compose, he succeeded in his activities. He continued his music career and in 1351, he obtained a bachelor's degree.

Kambiz Roshanravan (Persian: کامبیز روشن‌روان, born 9 June 1949) is an Iranian musician, composer, conductor and music teacher. As one of the famous composers in Iranian classical and traditional music, he has composed or arranged various works in these styles using well-known Western and Iranian forms such as: symphony, sonata, symphonic poem, concerto, row music forms and local music. His professional life is divided into three parts: composing, teaching and professional activity in the music community. During his career he has created many works for film music, vocal music, symphony orchestra and chamber, and for many years he has tried to teach, write books, pamphlets and articles in the field of education, He is referred to as an expert musician in theoretical and harmonious discourses.

Kambiz Roshanrovan was born on June 9, 1949 in Tehran, Kashanchi Alley, in front of the "Municipal Cafe" (the location of the student park and theater of the current city), in religious families with moderate financial situation. His father was from Bushehr and a person with strong religious beliefs, so that he held congregational prayers with his children at home and in addition to himself reciting the Qur'an in a vocal tone, he also encouraged his children to do so. Her mother was from Mashhad and had a higher education. She had a great interest in art, literature and painting, which is why she was one of the first women to receive a bachelor's degree in literature from the university in those years.