Kayvan Mirhadi

Kayvan Mirhadi (also spelled "Keyvan Mirhadi", keivanmirhadi, Persian: کیوان میرهادی‎, born January 20, 1960) is an Iranian composer, conductor, and guitarist.

In the course of his career Mirhadi has conducted many choirs and chamber orchestras dedicated to classical music.
He owns a choir and chamber orchestra called Camerata and has begun to perform contemporary classical such as Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt in Iran. For the first time in Iran he arranged some tracks of rock-band celebrities for his orchestra such as Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Scorpions, Iron Maiden and has begun to give live concerts.[1][2] He has been performing and conducting Camerata Tehran for more than a decade, in 2011 he performed in Aix-en-Provence Cathedral with Camerata Tehran and it was the first time a private self-employed classical ensemble ever performed abroad. He has been performing in prestigious Halls in Iran and through a decade he performed more than 60 concerts with Camerata. The last one was Aug 2018 introducing two new guitar concertos to the Iranian audience. He has taught choir, Guitar, Theory of western music and History at the University of Tehran,[3] Azad University, Tehran Conservatory and the old and prestigious Tehran College of music (Honarestan). and recently at Elmi-Karbordi University branch 46 ( Classical Guitar and Western traditional harmony)

Mirhadi has been one of the founders and jurors for the Young Guitarists Festival called Tehran guitar competition from 2002 to 2017 and the chief-juror for Isfahan's first festival on Guitar. He published a book called Music A-Z on the Theory of western music.[4][5]

He conducted a fusion concert and transcribed the works of the Setar virtuoso Massoud Shoari for large classical-traditional ensemble and gave a concert in 2003 at the Tehran Opera House (Vahdat Hall).[6]

During 2002-3, he wrote essays and critics on music and musicians in "Golestaneh" art magazine. Mirhadi has written and translated four books on music.

"Music A-z" on the western theory of music ( for his Master's degree-2001),
"100 years of Modern" music by Paul Griffith - A translation,
"Classical Guitarist"- selected works for classical guitar,
"Guitar Technics"- by Hector Quinne - Oxford Press- A Translation.
music albums:

1- Philip Glass: string quartets No2,3&5 transcribed for four classical guitars and performed by Kayvan Mirhadi,(not released) 2- Philip Glass: Harpsichord Concerto, Transcribed for four classical guitars and performed by Kayvan Mirhadi,(not released) 3- "Koneh Hawaran", A tanbur and Vocal work based on the Kurdish traditional Love and funeral Themes for string ensemble,iTunes-Oido records-2014 4- "LIKOO", a jazz album with O.R.P quartet. Featuring Jerry Gonzalez on trumpet,iTunes, Oido records - 2013 5- "Concierto de Aranjuez": Kayvan Mirhadi: Guitar, Music Minus One,( not released) In 2007, he wrote an original score for a movie called The Lives of Feet which participated in the Festival International du Court Metrage in France.[7]