● Birthplace: Neyshabur
● Website: www.motebassem.com
Biography
He was a composer and tar and Setar player in Neyshabur and was born in a musical family. The first training of music from his father, Ali Motebash, and later, who came to Tehran, went to the Conservatory of music and homologous such as: Ziollah Toloui, Habibollah Salehi, Houshang Zarif, Hossein Alizadeh, and Mohammad Reza Lotfi, with minutes of hospitality, Tar and Setar were met at the same time IRIB’s voice and radio broadcasting Center took advantage of their teachings. In Tehran, he began training and teaching activities in the center of Caduceus and joined Parviz Meshkatian at the time of tar and Setar player. In the early 1990s, he founded the music ensemble to Mohammad Ali Kiani Nezhad. The group, although influenced by the mystic Group and Parviz Meshkatian’s works, created a fresh taste and color in the music space of Iran. According to the title, he suggested the name of Kiani Nezhad and the first performances of this group were the singing of Bijan Kamkar. The Dawn album was a different experience in composition and arrangement. Composing and singing Bijan Kamkar, the name of the perform as a tasteful composition, to the music community. In the morning, the album was later kept as one of the most influential and current albums in Iran’s music. The new year, then, the album of Nowruz Bastami to the live singing of Iraj. After a while, he immigrated to Germany and formed the group of Skylark and Dastan groups, the establishment of tar and Setar Society, holding annual musical seminars and the formation of the pick-up ensemble, from students and campus of International Orchestra, since 1994.
He, along with Dastan Ensemble, carried out several concerts abroad and inside Iran, most notably, with Shahram Nazeri’s master. The album was a trip to another side, and the new instrument, the result of the work of his hands with Ostad Nazeri. Working with Sediq defined, in the release of the Bride’s Moon album and the last work with the Observer, the title of Lolian is also among other “business”. He was executed by Sima Bina and Banu Ensemble outside of Iran, with Dastan ensemble. The Le Monde of the hand, which was achieved by Parisa, was the title of Shock from the magazine and the Best Music Award of the year 2003 from the Ministry of Culture of France.
Mr. Motebassem, in 2008, was established by the Grand Orchestra of Iranian instruments including 40 musician and singer with Behrang Tonkaboni. The orchestra was established in order to carry out the piece of Simorgh, a work of Hamid Motebassem, for the Great Orchestra of the choir and the singing of Homayoun Shajarian and started his career from autumn 2009, with the leadership of Mohammad Reza Darvishi, and in August 2010, the first performance of Simorgh, in the tennis Stadium of the revolution’s sport complex. This work was once again, in the summer of 2011 in the Vahdat Hall, led by him to go on stage and then in the same year’s September, led by Hooman Khalatbari, two other concerts from Simorgh, in the cities of Herlen and The Hague in the Netherlands.
Works
1985 – Baharan Abidar – Houshang Kamkar – Bijan Kamkar – Shahram Nazeri – Ode to Homayoun run by the Kamkars – Kurdish local lyrics by Abbas Kamvandi – run by Tehran Symphony Orchestra
1990 – Bamdad – Bijan Kamkar – Soroush – With Aref ensemble
1992 – Iraj Bastami and Dastan Ensemble-Hamid Motebassem – Mohammad Ali Kiani Nezhad – Iraj Bastami with Dastan Ensemble – Not officially published by any publisher.
1992 – The Scent of Nowrouz – Iraj Bastami – With Dastan ensemble
1994 – Ode to the Sea – Setar
1997 – New Instrument Singing – Shahram Nazeri – with Dastan ensemble
1999 – Three – Hospitality – With Hossein Behroozi Nia and Pejman Haddadi
2000 – Hanan – Sima Bina – With Dastan ensemble
2001 – Tar (Behnam samani), Tonbak
2002 – Shoorideh – Parisa – With Dastan ensemble – Winner of the best music of the year from the Ministry of Culture of France and the title of Music shock of Le Monde music magazine
2004 – Paradise Flowers – Parisa – With Dastan ensemble
2005 – The Bride – Sedigh redefined – With Dastan ensemble
2005 – Lolian – Shahram Nazeri – With Dastan ensemble
2006 – Endless Sea – Saeed Farajpoori – Salar Aghili – With Dastan ensemble
2008 – Ghizhak Gypsy – Homayoun Shajarian with Dastan Ensemble – winner of the best traditional music of the year 2009 from the German page review
2008 – Sun Arezoo – Saeed Farajpoori – Homayoun Shajarian – With Dastan ensemble
2009 – The Name of Roses – Salar Aghili – With Dastan ensemble
2011 – A Window To The Sun – With Pejman Haddadi and Imam Yar Hassanof
2011 – Simorgh – Homayoun Shajarian with Iranian Simorgh Grand Orchestra
2012 – Simorgh Concert – Homayoun Shajarian – Avaye Baram (album) based on Shahnameh lyrics
2013 – Sarbedaran – Farhad Fakhreddini – Bijan Kamkar – Saba Studio-Soundtrack TV series Sarbedaran
– Composing for National instruments Group
