Professor Zaven yedygharians was born in Tabriz in 1914.
He got acquainted with music in his early childhood . He bigan playing
the classical violin when he was six.His celebrated instructors shahin
Dilanian,Leon Gerigorian, Bob Gen,Tom Razian and Shavash Baghdasarian
who are all the students of conservatories Belgium,Russia and Germany
played an outstanding role in forming his musical character.
Professor Zaven's prersence is an invaluable repository of the
literature of the violin music,experiens of stage performances of music
understing and insight into music note by note.
He also in the position of a teacher has trained so many students
Who include all of Iranian violinists.
He is also skilled in playing the classical guitar,the saxiphon and
the clarinet.

Bahman Mehabadi

ZAVEN

The glory of cremona

( Fifteen famous violin )

Prominent artists are the most eminent historians as well . They commence when the historians halt . Just as the jocund cantillation of music does when the tongue runs inarticulate . Each bar is either a whisper kindling the psyche in the form of a note or a cry eradicating every thing in the form of a modern or an ancient structure of music . Because undoubtedly it is just voice that remains . The history of voice is the process of the man's conflict who endeavors to build his utopia in the pursuit of an epiphany and revelation and reaches the lofty firmament of the sublime divinity after dismantling the dilapidated , fetid , earthly fabrications .

He seeks " piety" through each and every note of the piece and its performance and calls each " impiety " false . Therefore if history is the anecdote of man in the framework of every day life art is the symbol of the mystic expedition of history within the outcast and eternally lone man . Because both man and art emanate fons et origo and proceed a long so as to converge.

Art on the premiss of the all embracing knowledge of the exiting history can welcome its own utopian history and assume the throne of some utopian power . In this respect we must never ever forget that if any merchandise under the name of art is represented in the world and as it seems providing it finds its market and then fades in to oblivion is another story with no pertinence to the true artist . Because being an artist is excruciatingly difficult . Art is a religion a sacred and social one , the breath of life , a combination of knowledge, intellect and creativity together with a substance with no apparrent name and in its social facet it is the cause of the realization of the vital link between man and society and in the final scrutiny it is a kind of ideology autonomous of any other ideologies . Within this bright mine music has a status of lots of consequence . The abstract structure of music entices other forms of art and some state that all forms of art must reach the level of music irrestrictability : ignoring the fact that today's music is far more liberal than yesterday's .

Man is the center of this free and liberated music of any intended and unintended bonds . The central core is thought , endeavor and creativity . His incandescent soul scintillated by a divine and God - endowed blessing in the pursuit of love is undergoing an obscure suffering and has practiced what is yet to be for long hours , numerous days over several month and years . Every "playing" has made him go close and closer to the destination and without any single glance at the every day's routines he has stared at his instrument and through the suffering expedition has reached creativity . Undoubtedly , every one can fall in love and this is of no particular merit . But love is of special value and meaning when on the time's anvil is beaten and finds perpetuality . Today before our eyes standing is a man who has devouted his life time to love without any momentory hesitation and in This amour of existence and non - existence has taken the hue of love. This sage and predecessor of classic music in Azarbayjan if not the sole renown and erudite musician is undoubtedly , one of a few prominent and selected musicians of this land who is meritorious of great respect . An artist who after years of endeavor and experience relying on his creativity and his powerful talent has managed to highlight the proving of the theory of the correct instruction with universal standard of music by developing practical and scientific methods in performing music ,its adjustment and training first-rate students . And in this respect he has been presented as an international figure who is of the early instances , of course , peerless in music education in Azarbayjan . Professor Zaven Yedygharians without any exaggeration has gained practical experience in education of over half a century which is a unique event in our epoch , leading the music students through all correct and incorrect issues and currents is a matter of lots of cosequence which this celebrated instructor can crane his neck about : having passed this enervating trial . And today the presence of the best and the most dexterous Iranian violinist , Mr. Khachik Babayian , is the honored evidence of this scientific contemplation . Constant presence in music realms without any negative notion or eliminating conviction out of vanity toward others makes him a unique paragon which is a great lesson for all . Because unfortunately we are observing that exclusiveness and monopoly even in scientific and artistic circles . This issue doesn't pertain to professor Zaven Yedygharians because as far as I remember I have received affection , sympathy , inspiration and help . And I have noticed these elements in meeting his students .

I entered his academy when I was a child . He talked about the mystery of his instrument . Until today so many years have flown by but I still hear him talking about some mysteries of the instrument whose story is never to end . Others came and went and interpreted the world in general terms which are actually trivial . But he highlighted his faith that emenates from God . My mentor's life in music world had meaning because he sacrificed its entirity for the sublime meanings that today his name , existence , home and family all are overflowing with love .

The guru taught me just as he taught my other friends . He scintillated my soul and then let us blaze . Still I find his works in my books which are rightfully scholarly . Every one of his students in a way carries his name .One presenting on stage remembered him . One whenever writing wrote about him who was the first and the last . Another one trained his students under his name and remembrance because he had learned lessons in his affection academy which he could never learn anywhere else and could never become such a music lover . Professor Zaven Yedygharians with all his erudition in music is always self deprecating . I learned from him how to be self - effacing and modest and realized that true artists are always self effacing and modest . In Tabriz music school I took lessons from him for many years . When the school was near Golestan garden . Then located in Tarbiat street and then in the last location Monajem street . I was also present in his home in a small and friendly class . He organized some thoughts in my mind which were general , important and preliminary . And then in musical activities and services I never went out of my own originality framework and my mentor's . I met different people during my musical activity and job . Each of them has his own human effect but deprived of the grand music mysticism . I always took an introspective look at the faith that I had been bequeathed by my mentor as a relic. True artist is the true man , Because undoubtedly it is in the current of the birth of a ditty that even slaves are emancipated . Music breaks all the hostile bonds which manacle and shakle man by poverty tyrrany and ugly traditions . and in the realm of universal chanting in unison , joins north , south , east and west . In this rebirth the artist stands against a world infested with enigmas , anxieties and miseries so as to conduct a harmony aligned with the poundings of a heart imbued with compassion for an orchestra of the miserable and discrete mankind . And leads the mankind from his individuality to his cosmic unity that our music is the universal legacy of humanity . This legacy is in liaison with moral teachings and enhances the human faculty of resolution and with strengthening the faculty of concentration yields pensive and perspicacious humans to society . Azarbayjanians are inspiring, grateful and knowledge seeking people . Here is the land of knowledge . Saeed Nafisi with regard to music calls Azarbayjan eastern Italy Regarding the grand sources and rich repository of musical works including folkloric pieces , symphonic works , concerts , forms of chamber music and family music circles along with the sacredness joined with love for music in every individual of this land , this claim is scrutable .

In the last centuries great composers like safi'din Ormovi and Abdolghader Marraghehee left some works for us . Professor Zaven Yedygharians is a child of this land . He is an instance of the knowledge of this land . Actually his pious being is one of the most resplendent pages of the bulky book of the art and culture of these people of erudition .

As we read in mythology , Prometheus stole fire from the gods in Olympus torch to kindle the lantern of human intellect , Orpheus kept playing his lyre by the distant seas unite the sun rose and the crows flew . Abraham in fine found his garden of fire faith and Professor Zaven Yedygharians sought his utopia in music so as to wash his body and soul and get the shape of Ormazd .

I kiss his pious hands .

Every one whose garment is torn by love is all purged from avarice and flaw

Gay gay thou our gay - business Love.

Thou the physician of all our infirmities .

Thou the panacea of our vanity and bias .

Thou our Plato

Thou our Julanous.

Bahman Mehabadi

2002 –March

TEHRAN