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Mahan Esfahani (Persian: ماهان اصفهانی ) (born 1984, Tehran) is an Iranian-American harpsichordist. Esfahani grew up in the United States and attended Richard Montgomery High School in Maryland. He read music at Stanford University, where his teachers included Elaine Thornburgh, Herbert Myers, George Houle, Heather Hadlock, and Adam Gilbert. He subsequently continued harpsichord studies with Peter Watchorn in Boston, with Lorenzo Ghielmi in Milan, and later with Zuzana Růžičková. He was Artist-in-Residence at New College, Oxford from 2008 to 2010. From 2008 to 2010, Esfahani was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the first harpsichordist named as a New Generation Artist. He received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2009, the first harpsichordist and first Iranian in the history of the award. Esfahani made his Wigmore Hall debut in 2009 as a concerto soloist with The English Concert. Later in 2009, he made his debut at The Proms in 3 concerts that featured New Generation Artists. In July 2011, Esfahani gave the first solo harpsichord recital in the history of The Proms, at Cadogan Hall. He returned to The Proms in July 2012, leading his own arrangement of JS Bach's ''The Art of Fugue''. Outside of the UK, his New York debut was at the Frick Collection in March 2012. Esfahani recorded Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's ''Wurttemberg Sonatas'' for Hyperion Records, and the recording won a 2014 ''Gramophone'' Award in the Baroque Instrumental category. The same recording won him the BBC Music Magazine Award's 'Best Newcomer' award the following year. 2014 also saw Hyperion release his two-disc set of the complete harpsichord works of Jean-Philippe Rameau. In 2014, Esfahani signed a contract to recording for Deutsche Grammophon (DG), and his first DG recording, 'Time Present and Time Past', was released in 2015. Esfahani became professor of harpsichord at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama in the spring of 2015. == Discography == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mahan Esfahani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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