Golnoush Khaleghi is a graduate of Tehran's National School of Music, where she studied Persian music and piano with Javad Ma'rufi and Hossein Saba. She subsequently entered the Tehran Conservatory, where she continued her piano studies with Imanuel Melik-Aslanian. The recipient of an Iranian government scholarship for study abroad, Ms. Khaleghi spent three years at the Mozarteum academy in Salzburg, Austria, specializing in conducting under the tutelage of Professors Kurt Prestel and Gerhard Wimberger and composition under Professor Cesar Bresgen. She earned the bachelor's and master's degrees in conducting from Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin, respectively. Ms. Khaleghi has worked closely with such renowned conductors as Helmuth Rilling, Robert Fountain, Karol Teutsch, and Rouben Gregorian, and has performed in the United States, Europe, Canada, Venezuela, and Iran. She is the founder of Hamavazan (the Iranian Radio and Television Choir), the Rouhollah Khaleghi Orchestra, and the Rouhollah Khaleghi Artistic Center.
Since the cultural upheaval of the Revolution of Iran in 1979, Ms. Khaleghi has been a prominent figure in promoting Persian music and culture through the concerts of the Rouhollah Khaleghi Orchestra, solo performances, lectures, and other activities. She resides in Washington, D.C., and devotes her time to music research, teaching, composing, and arranging Persian classical and folk music for piano. She also arranges works of her father, the esteemed composer Rouhollah Khaleghi, and other great masters of Persian music. She selects talented young Persians as her students, because she believes that it is the mission of all Persian artists living in exile to preserve and teach the homeland's great fine arts to the young generation being raised abroad.
She lives in Annandale, VA, a suburb of Washington D.C., with her husband, Stephen Ackert, and their two Maltese dogs, Sasha and Lily. They have two sons: Ramin (David) and Julian.
Since the cultural upheaval of the Revolution of Iran in 1979, Ms. Khaleghi has been a prominent figure in promoting Persian music and culture through the concerts of the Rouhollah Khaleghi Orchestra, solo performances, lectures, and other activities. She resides in Washington, D.C., and devotes her time to music research, teaching, composing, and arranging Persian classical and folk music for piano. She also arranges works of her father, the esteemed composer Rouhollah Khaleghi, and other great masters of Persian music. She selects talented young Persians as her students, because she believes that it is the mission of all Persian artists living in exile to preserve and teach the homeland's great fine arts to the young generation being raised abroad.
She lives in Annandale, VA, a suburb of Washington D.C., with her husband, Stephen Ackert, and their two Maltese dogs, Sasha and Lily. They have two sons: Ramin (David) and Julian.
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