The first meeting of the Council for the Supervision of Free Schools in the new year was held in the presence of council members, as well as the awarding of the first class art degree to Simon Ayvazyan.
At Sunday’s meeting of the Supervisory Board of the Free Music Schools, music artist and photographer Simon Ayvazyan was awarded a first class art degree.
Dr. Simon Ayvazian, born in 1944 in Bandar Anzali, is a university professor and lecturer in guitar and architecture, a classical guitarist and flamenco player, and an Iranian-Armenian photographer.
He started playing the mandolin as a child and adolescent, first at the age of 12, and after the age of 14 he became acquainted with the guitar and learned classical guitar for seven years in an academic way on his own.
He met his first flamenco master, Juan Alba, at the age of 21, and learned five of his most famous Spanish pieces.
Along with flamenco guitar, he continued to learn classical guitar. For a time, he took private lessons with Alireo Diaz, a Venezuelan guitarist who was later an assistant to Andres Segovia. Then he used the expert advice of Julian Byzantine, one of Julian Bream’s distinguished students, for a short time.
From 1966 to 1969, he won 4 gold medals in guitar playing in competitions of universities and colleges in the country. Simon Ayvazyan has also been awarded a special prize by the judges of the Student Congress (foreign students) in Madrid.
Between 1976 and 1978, he used the lectures of Jean During, who was a student of Narciso Yepes and an excellent student of the Paris Conservatory.
Between 1964 and 1975, Master Simon Ayvazyan performed more than ten guitar concerts as a solo and duet.
After graduating from high school, he entered the field of architecture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, and after graduating from the university, he was employed as a faculty member at the University of Tehran and received his doctorate in architecture and archeology from the Sorbonne University in Paris, and again taught architecture at the University of Tehran, as well as photography and music, and finally became a professor after graduating.
Among his musical activities in many festivals and competitions, he has played classical guitar and flamenco, and has often been active as a speaker in festivals and conferences, and many times he has been in those ceremonies, each of which is a part of the history of guitar making. Includes Iran, celebrated. These events include the Fajr and Young Festivals, the Iranian Classical and Flamenco Guitar Competition, the Iranian Flamenco National Conference, and the Isfahan Guitar Festival.
He has been honored in the 21st Fajr International Music Festival in 2005.
