Manoochehr Sadeghi
{{Short description|Iranian-American musician (born 1938)}}
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| name = Manoochehr Sadeghi
منوچهر صادقی
| image = Manoochehr_Sadeghi.gif
| caption = Sadeghi representing the correct hand and body posture when performing the santur
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1938|04|13}}
| birth_place = Tehran, Iran
| instrument = Santur
| genre = Persian classical music, world music
| occupation = Santur virtuoso, teacher, lecturer, composer, producer, pedagogue
| years_active = 1961–present
| associated_acts = Vision Live Series, Sohl Ensemble
| website = {{URL|https://santur.com/}}
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Manoochehr Sadeghi (born April 13, 1938) is a Persian-American naturalized citizen, born in Tehran, Iran. He is considered an ustad (grand master) of the santur, a Persian hammered dulcimer. He has been lecturing, teaching, recording and performing Persian classical music on the santur professionally for over 50 years. In 2002, Sadeghi received the Durfee Foundation Master Musician Award{{cite web|title=Durfee Foundation Master Musician Award|url=http://www.durfee.org/musicinstitute/agenda.html}} and he is a recipient of a 2003 National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts,{{cite web|title=Dr. Manoochehr Sadeghi: Persian santur player |url=https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/dr-manoochehr-sadeghi|date=n.d.|website=www.arts.gov |publisher=National Endowment for the Arts |access-date=January 2, 2021}} which is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
Early life
Sadeghi began studying the santur at the age of 7 with a music teacher coincidentally named Manoochehr Sadeghian. By the age of 14 he became the prized pupil of a legendary figure in Persian classical music, Abolhasan Saba, who was a master and creator of the Radif of Saba,{{cite book|last=Nettl|first=Bruno|author-link=Bruno Nettl|title=The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-nine Issues and Concepts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rygV4McHWfcC&pg=PA191|year=1983|publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=9780252010392}} considered today's manual to mastering Persian classical music. At the age of 19 he performed in Saba's first orchestra of the State Fine Arts Department of Iran. After performing on Iran's television and radio, he went on to stage live concerts around the world for various heads of state. In 1964, Sadeghi emigrated to the United States to pursue his education and career. First at the California State University, Fullerton,{{cite web|title=California State University, Fullerton|url=http://www.fullerton.edu/}} and then at UCLA,{{cite web|title=UCLA, University of California Los Angeles|url=http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=836&Itemid=178|work=Ethnomusicology}} where he began teaching and performing while earning his degrees. In 1973 he was awarded the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program.{{cite web|title=Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program|url=http://www.international.ucla.edu/funding/article.asp?parentid=17369|publisher=UCLA|access-date=30 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060917040324/https://www.international.ucla.edu/funding/article.asp?parentid=17369|archive-date=17 September 2006}}
Career
Sadeghi has a variety of students whom he teaches at home and on the internet. Sadeghi is compiling his lessons into an online music school to preserve his knowledge, technique and personal style through contemporary Persian classical improvisation. He is preparing for a series of concerts after the release of his next album. He taught private lessons in Iran from 1953 to 1964 and then in the United States from 1966 to the present. Sadeghi was a teacher at the Conservatory of Persian National Music in Iran from 1958 until 1964 on the faculty at UCLA’s Department of Ethnomusicology from 1967 to 1997.{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} He also taught Persian classical music theory, history and performance, and gave annual concerts on campus and abroad.
References
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External links
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- {{official|https://santur.com/|Santur.com}}
- [http://www.news.illinois.edu/news/04/0316improvisation.html April conference at Illinois to focus on improvisation in music], University of Illinois{{dead link|date=February 2024}}
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110814112412/http://www.mazdapublisher.com/BookDetails.aspx?BookID=36 Book details – Dariush Tala'i – Traditional Persian Art Music]}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20010419233939/http://www.iranproject.org/radio/transcript6.html The Struggle for Iran – radio documentary of the Iran Project]
- [http://www.sealsandcrofts.com/lyricstie.html Takin' It Easy (1978)]
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Category:Iranian emigrants to the United States
Category:California State University, Fullerton people
Category:American child musicians
Category:Contemporary classical music performers
Category:Iranian ethnomusicologists
Category:Iranian santur players
Category:Musicians from Massachusetts
Category:National Heritage Fellowship winners
Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States
Category:Musicians from Los Angeles
Category:Musicians from Tehran
Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Category:World Music Awards winners