Mariinsky Theatre Guest Soloist
Reza Fekri was born in Tehran in 1992. Has studied accounting (graduated in the field of economy and bank accounting), while simultaneously studying music privately. Among his teachers are singers Göksay Yaran and Hüseyin Likos, conductor Alireza Shafaghinejad, composer Idin Samimi Mofakham and other musicians. Has worked in the choirs of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra and the Alborz Symphony Orchestra to name but a few, subsequently he began a solo career. Currently Reza Fekri is a student of the Voice Department at the University of Zagreb Academy of Music.
His repertoire includes the tenor roles in Orff’s Carmina Burana, Dvořák’s Requiem, works by Mozart, Rossini, Schubert, Donizetti, Verdi and Bizet among others, including Iranian composers (Hossein Kiumarsi’s vocal cycle The Sharp Tongues of Narcissi was released by Zang Records). The singer collaborates with conductor and composer Alexander Rahbari, performing the tenor parts in his symphonic poems Alamdar, West-Eastern Divan by Goethe and poems from the cycle My Mother Persia, as well as the role of Isaac in the opera Abraham and the role of King Khashayar (Xerxes) in the opera Persian’s Tragedy. In March 2022 Reza Fekri was the soloist at the world premiere of Rahbari’s symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra Spitama in Zagreb, and in September of the same year – at its Russian premiere, which took place at the Mariinsky Theatre. In that year he appeared in a gala concert at the Helikon Opera in Moscow, held as part of the Cultural Programme of the 2nd Caspian Economic Forum.
Information for March 2024