A.Latif-Zade is an active composer of acoustic music. His output includes:Opera ,orchestral works; chamber instrumental and vocal, choral music. He has written for and received commissions from numerous professional ,ensembles and performers; his compositions have been selected for national and international performances, music festivals forums and conferences ( 37 countries).
Background
A.Latif-Zade is a participant (one of 16 composers) of the Silk Road Project inc.an initiative of international cello superstar Yo-Yo-Ma (Tanglewood 2000).
In his most recent music he has tried to create a new synthesis
of Eastern and Western,of Jazz and Contemporary.
In addition to composing, he performs on violin and piano (Library Congress Wash.DC) ,
(United Nations). Mr.A.Latif-Zade actively has pedagogical practice as well as.
During the nine years of his teaching practice in the United States, he developed his own method and approach of learning to play the violin for beginners.The "Express " effective training Method of playing the VIOLIN: Everyone is able to do it! (Volume 1)
Education
At the age of 5,5 years Alisher became involved in Special Republic Special Music School in Dushanbe Violin and Piano class. Later, he earned bachelor’s and master's degrees in Music from Moscow Conservatory (Mos.Tch.State C) which he graduated from in 1985 as a composer (prof.Alexander Pirumov) , Harmony (prof.Yuri Kholopov) and Orchestration (prof.K.Khachaturian)
Career
In the period from 1987 to 1992, A.Latif-Zade worked and taught at
the Republican specialized music school named afterZiyodullo Shahidi in Dushanbe (taught ear training,composition,improvisation and arrangement). Due to civil conflict he was forced to move with Wife and son (1993) in neighboring Uzbekistan, where later A,L-Z was invited to teach composition, arrangement and improvisation at the National Conservatory of Uzbekistan.Later,the Rector of the Kazakh Kurmangazy National Conservatory invited Alisher Latif-Zade to the department composition,where he worked through 2004 year. Among the pupils and students - graduates of the Conservatory and the Juilliard School, Hunter College (Manhattan), St. Petersburg, Tashkent and Almaty, working in the United States, Sweden, China, Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
A.Latif-Zade lives in New York since 2004.He is engaged in creative and pedagogical activity. A.Latif-Zade collaborates with musicians, conductors and musical collectives worldwide.He composes music of different genres and styles. In last compositions A.Latif-Zade tries to create a new style in Music genre, that is the synthesis of Orient, Western, Jazz and Classical music. Composer's special aspiration is to assist the process of rapprochement of the people professing different religions (like he does, for example, in his trio "Cross and Crescent", the ton poem "Apocalypse", octet " Circles of time ", "Tolerance", "Heaven's Voice").
In 2015 A.Latif-Zade was invited to work at Avloni Academy of Music (Cupertino.CA).
From 2018 to 2023 A.LZ taught at Brooklyn Music School. And since last year(2022), Tian Song Music Arts invited the composer to teach violin and piano, where A. Latif-Zadeh also created an ensemble of violinists.
Membership
Member of NACUSA, American Society of Composers, Union Russian Composers, Union Composers Uzbekistan, Tajik-Slavonic University Cathedra Culturology (honorary).
Personality
Motto of Alisher Latif-Zade - Composer:
"I would like to develop those areas in musical culture where there is a place to innovation, to experiment. My vital principle -is to create and embody;to expand and unite a circle of adherents in searches of New."
Physical Characteristics:
Daily swimming of 750 meters
Connections
Married Sabrie Belyalova Latif-Zade, February 26, 1988. Children: Daler-US Police Oficer, Tamila - Doctor.