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Golnoush Khaleghi
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) www.davidackert.com
and Julian.
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