Reza Najfar

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Reza Najfar (born 20 April 1960) is a flute player and composer from Tehran, Iran, living in Austria. As early as in the years of his studies, Reza Najfar worked together with artists such as Geoffry Gilbert, Auréle Nicolet, William Bennett, Peter Lukas Graf and James Galway, some of whom appreciate his cooperation up to now. Already in the years of his studies, he was solo-flautist in the orchestra of the “Vereinigte Bühnen Wiens” for three years. During his studies he was engaged as a solo-flautist in the Theater Orchestra of Vienna for three years (Vereinigte Bühnen Wien). His vast repertoire encompasses works from the baroque music to contemporary music containing all major pieces of the general flute repertoire. Najfar’s œuvre as a composer ranges from solo pieces and songs for various instruments to chamber and orchestral music, music for poems by Sohrab Sepehri, Ahmad Shamlou and Abbas Kiarostami’s Haikus as well as Kiarostami’s last short film “up and down“ as well as music for documentary films. Reza Najfar's concerts took him to several european countries, Japan and Mexico , USA, South Korea and China and Mexico. He contributed to festivals such as “Österreich heute“, the “Takayma Festival” (Japan) and “Musica e Magia” (Mexico) Japan flute festival in Tokyo and flute festival in Kyoto Japan. His soloistic work includes a great number of CDs, among others “Divertimento Italiano” and „Serenata Italiano“ with a focus on works by Mauro Giuliani, both published b

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