Sharif Lotfi

Sharif Lotfi (Persian: شریف لطفی, born 16 May 1950) is an Iranian musician, composer, conductor and music pedagogue. He is the founder of the Faculty of Music at Tehran University of Arts and has served as one of its professors and the dean until 2010.

Biography Sharif Lotfi was born on 16 May 1950 in the city of Rasht. He left for Tehran at the age of ten due to a change in his father's job. At the age of twelve, he entered the Tehran Conservatory of Music with the encouragement of his father, who was a student of Abolhassan Saba, and studied the horn as a specialized instrument under Morteza Hananeh. and after that, he founded and led the Tehran University Symphony Orchestra.

He was the conductor of the Bahman Cultural Center Symphony Orchestra, the re-registration and re-establishment of the Iranian Philharmonic Association, the establishment of the Gilan University Music Ensemble, and the conductor of the Tehran Philharmonic Orchestra after the 1957 Revolution. Sharif Lotfi, the founder, a member of the faculty and one of the professors of the Faculty of Music of Tehran University of Arts, was the dean of the Faculty of Music of the University of Arts until the end of 2010. The book The New Method of Basics of Music Performance by him was selected as the book of the year in 2003. His brother Ebrahim Lotfi is a famous violinist and teacher.

Artwork Among the works of Sharif Lotfi, the following can be mentioned:

Composing

Segah for Piano and Orchestra

Silk Road Soroush for violin and orchestra National Student Olympiad Anthem Dafineh Music Album, (2021)

Movie and TV series Music

Madian (Ali Zhakan) Saman (Ahmad Nik Azar) Beside the ponds (Yadollah Novonsori) The girl by the swamp (Ali Zhakan) Iron Bird (Ali Shah Hatami) Travelers of Anar Valley (Yadollah Novonsori) Wild Deer (Hamid Khairuddin) Two companions (Asghar Hashemi) Mountain Silence (Yadollah Novonsori) Rana Series (Davood Mirbagheri) Jasmine perfume series (Bahman Zarrinpour)

Books

Musical Thoughts – Dibayeh Publishing – 2013

Awards

Special commendation plaque and statuette of the Science Promotion Award from the twelfth Iranian Science Promotion Award, 2011 Winner of the 21st edition of the Book of the Year for writing the book The New Method of the Basics of Music Performance, 2003 Placing a statue of Sharif Lotfi in the passage of Kish Island artists, 2000 Selected Professor of Tehran University of Arts, 1995 Receive the Golden Plate and the Diploma of Honor for the best soundtrack from the 4th Fajr Film Festival for the music of the film Madian, 1985