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Reza Vali
Reza Vali (Persian: رضا والی) is an Iranian musician and composer.
Vali was born in Qazvin in 1952 and studied at the Tehran Conservatory.
In 1972, he began attending the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He later attended the University of Pittsburgh where he received his PhD in composition and music theory.
Vali has received the Austrian Ministry of Arts and Sciences honor prize and two Andrew W. Mellon fellowships. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust as an Outstanding Emerging Artist, for which he received the Creative Achievement Award.
Vali's orchestral works have been performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra 2001. He has been commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Kronos Quartet, the Seattle Chamber Players, and the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, as well as receiving grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education. His chamber music has been performed by the Cuarteto Latinoamericano, the Del Sol Quartet, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Kronos Quartet, the Seattle Chamber Players, and the Da Capo Chamber Players.
He is a professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has been on the faculty since 1988.
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Reza Vali
Reza Vali (Persian: رضا والی) is an Iranian musician and composer.
Vali was born in Qazvin in 1952 and studied at the Tehran Conservatory.
In 1972, he began attending the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He later attended the University of Pittsburgh where he received his PhD in composition and music theory.
Vali has received the Austrian Ministry of Arts and Sciences honor prize and two Andrew W. Mellon fellowships. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust as an Outstanding Emerging Artist, for which he received the Creative Achievement Award.
Vali's orchestral works have been performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra 2001. He has been commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Kronos Quartet, the Seattle Chamber Players, and the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, as well as receiving grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education. His chamber music has been performed by the Cuarteto Latinoamericano, the Del Sol Quartet, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Kronos Quartet, the Seattle Chamber Players, and the Da Capo Chamber Players.
He is a professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has been on the faculty since 1988.