Biography:
Tolib Shakhidi was born on 13 March 1946 in the city of Dushanbe, Tajikistan. His is a son of the founder of Professional Tajik Academic Music - Ziedullo Shakhidi.
Shakhidi began his musical career at the age of fourteen. He graduated from the Musical College in Dushanbe in 1965 from the Composition Class of Uri Ter-Osipov. In the same year, he entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory. During his student years in Moscow, he strove to be at the centre of musical activities. Conductors such as Mikhail Terion and Maxim Shostakovich performed his orchestral and instrumental compositions.
In 1972 Shakhidi graduated from the Moscow Conservatory from the class of Aram Khachaturian. 'Tolib, your time is precious,' wrote the famous master on Shakhidi's graduation photograph – and since then, this has become the composer's fundamental belief both in life and in his creative work.
From 1972 to this day, Shakhidi has participated in a number of music festivals and has striven to produce innovative and powerful compositions. His music attempts to create a synthesis between East and West. His brilliant understandings of orchestration and familiarity with different musical styles have firmly established him in the contemporary music scene.
Working in a number of different genres, including theatre and cinema, Shakhidi's compositions often serve as the vehicle for the musical representation of intensely powerful plays. Drawing inspiration from playwrights such as Sophocles and Shakespeare, Shakhidi's compositions capture the listener's imagination much as a dramatic representation would.
A master of different genres, including operas, ballets, symphonies and instrumental compositions, his work represents a unique fusion of the very best of the European and Asian musical traditions. He is a contemporary artist, whose world outlook transcends national boundaries. In this capacity, he regularly participates and has a great success in International festivals of Contemporary Music in Europe and USA (1987, 2001), in Japan, Baltic States, Central Asia, Iran and Turkey. The musical pieces of the composer have been performed by such orchestras as Philadelphia & Boston Symphonic Orchestras, State Symphonic Orchestra of USSR, Orchestra of Valery Gergiev, Bolshoy Symphonic Orchestra of Russia n.a. Tchaikovsky, Orchestra of Cinematography conducted by Sergey Skripka, St. Petersburg State Philharmonic Orchestra n.a Dmitriy Shostakovitch.
Musicians such as cello performer Yo Yo Ma, violonist Sergey Kravtchenko and French saxophone player Pierre Stephane Meuge have performed the music of the master. He also has worked with conductrors among which are Maxim Shostakovitch, Dmitry Kitaenko, Chalres Ansbacher, Mark Ermler, Sergey Skripka, Michael Terian, Dzhansug Kakhidze, Vladimir Kozhukhar, Valery Gergiev, Zakhid Khaknazarov, Eldar Azimov and Bijan Khadem-Missagh.
Major works of composer Tolib Shakhidi
| 1. "Festival" - symphonic poem |
1975 |
| 2. "Death of usurer" - suite of ballet |
1978 |
| 3. "Tajiks" - symphony N 2 |
1978 |
| 4. "Rubai of Khaiam" - film ballet |
1980 |
| 5. Sonata N 1 for piano |
1981 |
| 6. "Recitative of Rumi" - suite for flute and piano |
1981 |
| 7. "Sado" - symphonic poem |
1984 |
| 8. "Caliph-stork" - operas for children |
1988 |
| 9. "Karlic-nose"- operas for children |
1989 |
| 10. "Beauty yosif" |
1989 |
| 11. Sonata N 2 for piano |
1991 |
| 12. Sonata N 2 for piano and chamber orchestra |
1991 |
| 13. "Siavush" - ballet, |
1992 |
| 14. "Beauty and Monster"- opera |
1993 |
| 15. Concert for violin and chamber orchestra |
1993 |
| 16. Concert N 3 for piano and orchestra |
1994 |
| 17. Concert N 1 for string orchestra, |
1997 |
| 18. "Firdavsiada" - concert N 2 for string orchestra |
1998 |
| 19. "Sufi-dancer" - music for 15 instruments |
1998 |
| 20. "Istanbul-capriccio" - for saxophone and chamber orchestra. |
1998 |
| 21. "Dobro vam" - vocal cycle for tenor and symphonic orchestra. Poems of Hofiz, Gete, Pushkin |
1999 |
| 22. "Amir Ismoil" - opera |
1999 |
| 23. "Silk road dreams dancing" - septet |
2000 |
| 24. "Pictures under moon" for R. Finn poem. Soprano and chamber orchestra |
2000 |
| 25. "Algorismus marimba+" -sextet |
2001 |
| 26. "Contrasts in 55" |
2001 |
| 27. "Contrasts" - music for violin and piano |
2001 |
| 28. "King Lear" - music for the famous Shakespeare' tradegy |
2002 |
| 29. "Persian Suite" - music for string orchestra |
2002 |
| 30. "Sufi and Budha" - pictures etude for piano |
2002 |
| 31. "Concerto Grosso N3" - for santur violino solo and chamber orchestra |
2002 |
Tolib Shahidi is a highly talented composer. His works expose the essence of the artist in an unusually bright manner. He expresses his musical idea with great perfection. The whole material is outstandingly worked out, orchestral script brilliantly written and architectonics followed in amazing detail.
Andrei Eshpai
Composer
He is a great composer, I performed his symphonic picture with great pleasure and I will perform it in the US for his is the world class music"
Charles Ansbaker
Conductor USA Hanover
"Sado" had a great impact on me: excellent script, effective and striking music.
Boris Tchaikovsky
Composer
"Music by Tolib Shahidi is a brilliant synthesis of the East and West. I performed his poem "Sado" with great pleasure and it was always a great success."
Valeri Gergiev
Art Director and Chief Conductor of Mariin's Theatre St. Petersburg
"Tolib Shahidi's 3rd piano concert is undoubtedly a brilliant achievement by the composer. This music was written on impulse and is listened to with great interest. I think that this music will be performed everywhere and could become an event at any international festival."
Alexander Tchaikovsky
Professor of the Moscow State Conservatory
"In Tolib Shahidi's music there is a voice of a spiritually rich man, a highly sensitive philosopher, who responds to everything that takes place in the world"
Galina Kuznecova
Doctor of Art
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