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 of Tehran University of Arts and one of the professors of this university. 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.After receiving a diploma in music, Sharif Lotfi worked simultaneously with the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, the Tehran Opera Orchestra and the Ballet Orchestra as a French horn player. After completing a bachelor's degree in music at the Tehran Conservatory of Music, he was awarded a government scholarship by the Minister of Culture and Arts as an honorary student. He continued his studies at the Academy of Music in Hamburg, Germany in the field of music pedagogy and orchestra conducting, and at the same time joined the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and the Bremen Symphony Orchestra as a French horn player. He studied with professors such as Bruckner Rogerberg, Schrutter and Heinrich Keller.Sharif Lotfi returned to Iran in 1977 after completing his postgraduate studies in the fields of music pedagogy and conducting an orchestra. He first became a member of the faculty of the Higher Conservatory of Music and later a member of the faculty of Tehran University of Arts. For a while, he was the director of the Tehran Conservatory of Music, and after that, he founded and led the Tehran University Symphony Orchestra.After planning and compiling music studies, in 1991, he founded the Free Music Education Center of the University of Arts, and finally in 1994, he succeeded in establishing the first music school in Iran, entitled "Music School of Tehran University of Arts" on the Karaj campus of the University of Arts.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.By the end of his presidency at the Faculty of Music, he succeeded in launching the following disciplines: composition, playing Iranian music, playing world music (classical) and military music at the undergraduate level, as well as disciplines: composing, playing Iranian music, playing world music (classical) and ethnomusicology. He received his master's degree.The soundtrack of the film Madian is one of his works, which in 1985, won the Golden Tablet Award and the Diploma of Honor for the best soundtrack of the fourth Fajr Film Festival. 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.