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Mohammad Mehdi Goorangi (; born 23 June 1975 in
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,
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) is an
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Life and career

Goorangi started playing piano and the dulcimer (the Santour) at a young age. He gained his first musical experiences by composing songs for the Educational-affairs Association of Education Organization when he was in high school. He had the honor of being instructed by some of the greatest musicians such as: Mohammad Tagahi Massoudieh,
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, Shahin Farhat, Sharif Lotfi,
Majid Kiani Majid Kiani is a Master of the Persian Santur. He was the best student of Manoochehr Sadeghi, among others. He teaches traditional Iranian music and his masterpiece is the book named: "Seven Dastgah(s) of Iranian Music". He is a leading figure i ...
, Mohammad Ali Haddadian, Mohammad Esmaili, Masood Shenasa, Amir-Ashraf Arianpoor and
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while studying at the university. In 1995 he started working for the
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(The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting), composing and arranging melodies, songs and orchestral pieces. In 1996 he became a member of the Young Composers Association of the
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Organization, managed by Hassan Riahi. He started his professional career in
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by composing music for
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s while he was a university student. Since then he has composed and arranged music for over 100 films,
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, songs, melodies, orchestral pieces,
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s, documentaries and plays of different scales and genres. At the moment, his major activities are lecturing at the university and composing sound tracks for movies and TV series. The album, ''A Truth Like an Imagination'', released in 2015, is a selection of his six film and series scores. In 2018, he attained a PhD in
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from
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. In February 2017, at the unveiling conference of the national project "Book Partner - With the Pen", Mohammad Mehdi Goorangi was honored as the top partner in the field of books and reading.


Professional experiences and qualifications

Among the artistic and research activities of Mohammad Mehdi Goorangi, the following can be mentioned: A member of Composers Association in "Iran's House of Cinema Organization" (khaneye cinema), A member of Researchers and Composers Association in "House of Music Organization" (khaneye mooseghi), A member of Education and Research Committee of
IRIB The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB; ) or Seda va Sima () for short, formerly called National Iranian Radio and Television until the Iranian revolution of 1979, is an Iranian state-controlled media corporation that holds a monopo ...
in 2010, Organizing a band and performing a concert based on the film called "Passenger from
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" (Mosaferi Az Hend) in 2003, Writing a book, ''The Creativity of Music'' (''Khalaghiate Moosighi''), in 2003, Instructing the basics of classical music and
film music A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...
, at the university since 2005, Establishing the Music Department of Mehr-e-Taban Academy,
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in
Shiraz Shiraz (; ) is the List of largest cities of Iran, fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars province, which has been historically known as Pars (Sasanian province), Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the popu ...
in 2013, Head of Music Department at Soroush University since 2017, Membership in the jury for the selection of films of the 18th Iranian Cinema House Festival, Executive Director of "Salnava of Iranian Music"


Albums

* ''
Traveler from India ''Traveler from India'' () is an Iranian Drama and Romance series. The series was directed by Ghasem Jafari. Storyline Ramin Naderi (Soroosh Goudarzi) goes to India to study. He is going to marry his cousin Parvaneh (Elham Hamidi), but he meets ...
'' * ''I Can Read Too'' * ''Loser'' * ''A Truth Like an Imagination'' * ''At the Sunrise''


References


External links


Goorangi's Official Webpage

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