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Qmars Puraglu's biography:
Was born in 1961 in Tehran (Iran). He started to play the Orff instruments in
children’s library called ‘The Institute for the Intellectual Development of
Children and Young Adults’, north of Tehran when he was five years old. After
playing the Orff instruments for seven years and giving many concerts, Qmars
chose to play the santūr (Persian hammer dulcimer). After three years studying
with Miss. Farzāne Noshad (student at the “Persian traditional music
conservatory” in Tehran), and a short period with Mina Oftadeh (educated player
from Traditional Music Conservatory-Tehran), he was accepted in the master class
of Farāmarz Pāyvar (great Iranian composer and master of the santūr in the
history on Persian music). He studied with Pāyvar for eight years. At the same
time Qmars began to play the piano with Taher Djalili, educated pianist of
Tehran conservatory who lives in Paris, gives concerts, and teaches. Qmars
studied also the bassoon with Khosrow Soltani for a year, who lives in Austria
and plays the bassoon in the Vienna Radio Orchestra.
One year before the Islamic revolution Qmars began working as a musician at the
Radio and Television (TRT) in Tehran. There, he and Mr. Vanko Naidanov
(Bulgarian musician) worked together and composed many musical pieces for
children programs. One year later the revolution had started and music
conservatory was shut down, music counted illegal. The situation became harder
every day and it was impossible to work as a musician. In 1985 Qmars moved to
Turkey and stayed there for a year. In the beginning of 1986 he arrived in
Belgium and began his study at the music academy in Antwerp for two years under
Hedvig Vanvarenberg (student of German famous pianist, Alexis Weissenberg), who
was also teaching the piano at the conservatorium in Antwerp. After a while
Qmars left Belgium and settled in Sweden since 1989. In Sweden he started his
musical career, as a pianist, at the Stockholm’s Music Academy (Birkagårdens
Folkhögskolan). There he studied the piano with great master pianist, Stella
Tchaikowky (a relative to great Russian composer) for two years and was active
in giving concerts and accompanying singers in the academy, as well as singing
in the school’s choir as a tenor.
Qmars studied musicology and ethnomusicology at the department of musicology in
Göteborg (Gothenburg) University and took his bachelor in 1999. To continue his
study, he arrived to Australia in 2001 and started to do his masters in
Ethnomusicology / Musicology at Melbourne University with Professor Cathy Falk
(Refer)
Qmars got his Masters in
2003 and straight away started his Ph.D at Monash University under Professor
Margaret Kartomi (Refer)
and Dr. Graeme Smith
(Refer)
Qmars finished his Ph.D in
December 2007. At the moment he is currently teaching “Persian Art Music-
Improvisation” in Melbourne University (VCA [Victorian College of the Arts]).
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