# Bardia Sadrenoori

Bardia Sadrenoori (Persian: بردیا صدرنوری, romanized: Bārdiâ Sādr–e–nouryi; born 2 May 1968), also spelled Bardia Sadr-e-noori, is an Iranian pianist, chamber musician, music improvisator and author. His style is classical Persian piano as musical improvisator. he has a lot of experience performing and collaborating with other musicians and artists. In France, he performed for the first time with a non-equal-tempered piano in January 2022 in Rennes. In Iran, he is the founder and director of Radnoandish cultural and artistic institute, as well as organizer of festivals of art and concerts.

## Biography

Bardia Sadrenoori was born in 1968 in Rasht, Iran, he began his piano at the age of 10. He started playing classical piano by the supervision of "Fahim Momtazi". Since early ages, he accepted genre of piano playing close to Classical music, nonetheless his tendency started to be curiosity on his favorite genre of playing piano as Persian traditional music. Therefore, he had introduced to "Kiomars Parsay" to take a humble advantage of learning Persian traditional music. Mehr News Agency described him as "an artist of exceptional promises."

## Education

Sadrenoori attended at Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran in MSc of Industrial Engineering whereas by next few following year of his graduation meanwhile, he was recording his debut album he decided to pursue his career as finally and signature of his education in PhD of Strategic Management as well as afterwards he published his own Blueprint on promoting classical music of each nation by publishing his master work on book "strategic study for national music."

## Career

Since 1987 Sadrenoori is particularly committed to classical music tendency to Iranian traditional songs. He started as soloist in several premiere of his performances even though, this was start for Sadrenoori to experience both playing chamber music and duet which has augmented technicality skills in his playing as well as both musical and social skills that differed Sadrenoori from skills he has for playing solo or symphonic works. Bardia Sadrenoori founded and established his own chamber music group called"Mehr avar"(Persian: گروه موسیقس مهرآور).

## Performances

His works in classical piano playing had become a limelight in eyes of the major Iranian musicians, composers, artists and singers which led him to an honorable invitation for collaborating in chamber music performing such as duetsand music ensembles during his young ages, for instance he contributed with:
* "KHONYA Musical Group" under directorship of Pari Maleki
* "Simurgh Classical chamber ensembles" under directorship of Afshin Qarshi
* Mehr National Orchestra under directorship of Nasser Izadi
* Piano duo in collaboration with Sepas Sadrenoori

### Classical chamber musical ensemble

| Number of musician | Name | Instrumentation | Year | Theme | Musical group | Leader | Vocal | Piano | Place | Concert producer |
| 9 | Nonet | Piano, kamancheh, percussion instrument, Tar, Tonbak, Bam-Tar, Daf, Santur, | 2005 | Tehran 1330 | KHONYA Musical Group | Pari Maleki | Pari Maleki | Bardia Sadrenoori | Roudaki Hall Tehran | Radnoandish Art and Cultural Institute |
| 8 | Octet | Piano, kamancheh, percussion instrument, Tar, Bam-Tar, Daf, Santur, Bam-Tar, Tonbak, | 2007 | Persian Music & Spring Melodies | KHONYA Musical Group | Pari Maleki | Pari Maleki | Bardia Sadrenoori | Roudaki Hall Tehran | Radnoandish Art and Cultural Institute |
| 8 | Octet | Piano, kamancheh, percussion instrument, Tar, Bam-Tar, Daf, Bam-Tar, Tonbak, | 2010 | 10 Years Review of KHONYA Archived 27 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine | KHONYA Musical Group | Pari Maleki | Pari Maleki | Bardia Sadrenoori | Niavaran Complex Tehran | Radnoandish Art and Cultural Institute |
| 4 | Quartet | Piano, cello, percussion instrument, Guitar | 2011 | Those Days Archived 27 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine | KHONYA Musical Group | Pari Maleki | Pari Maleki | Bardia Sadrenoori | Roudaki Hall Tehran | Radnoandish Art and Cultural Institute |
| 8 | Octet | Tar, Oud, kamancheh, Daf, Udu, Goblet drum, Bendir, Cajón, Ney, Santur, Tonbak, Bongos, Dhol | 2012 | Since, I Love You | KHONYA Musical Group | Pari Maleki | Pari Maleki | Bardia Sadrenoori | Roudaki Hall Tehran | Radnoandish Art and Cultural Institute |
| 5 | Quintet | Tar, kamancheh, Tonbak, Bam-tar | 2013 | Khoram's Night | KHONYA Musical Group | Pari Maleki | Pari Maleki | Bardia Sadrenoori | Roudaki Hall Tehran | Radnoandish Art and Cultural Institute |
| 9 | Nonet | Bam-tar, Tar, kamancheh, Dhol, Dayereh, Daf, Udu, Tonbak, Ney, Santur, Harmonica | 2013 | 20 Years of KHONYA | KHONYA Musical Group | Pari Maleki | Pari Maleki | Bardia Sadrenoori | Roudaki Hall Tehran | Radnoandish Art and Cultural Institute |

### Classical musical ensemble

"Mehr National Orchestra" under leadership of Naser Izadi. ."
| Number of musicians | Name Orchestral | Instrumentation | Year | Theme | Orchestra Late Romantic | Leader | Vocal | Piano | Place | Concert Producer |
| 25 | Late Romantic orchestra | Strings Violin, viola, Cello, Tar Woodwinds Flute, Clarinet, Duduk Keyboards Piano Percussion Daf | 2012 | Salute, Rain | Mehr National Orchestra | Nasser Izadi | Hussein Mozafari | Bardia Sadrenoori | Roudaki Hall Tehran | Radnoandish Art and Cultural Institute |
| 24 | Late Romantic orchestra | Strings Violin, viola, Cello, Tar Woodwinds Flute, Clarinet Keyboards Piano Percussion Daf | 2014 | Autumnal | Mehr National Orchestra | Nasser Izadi | Amir Assna Ashari | Bardia Sadrenoori | Roudaki Hall Tehran | Radnoandish Art and Cultural Institute |
| 22 | Late Romantic orchestra | Strings Violin, viola, Cello, Tar, Double bass, Bam-tar Woodwinds Flute, Clarinet Keyboards Piano Percussion Daf, Tonbak, percussion instrument | 2016 | Homayoun Khorram's Lapse | Mehr National Orchestra | Nasser Izadi | Vahid Taj | Bardia Sadrenoori | Roudaki Hall Tehran | Radnoandish Art and Cultural Institute |
| 15 | Late Romantic orchestra | Strings Violin, viola, Cello, Tar Woodwinds Flute, Clarinet Keyboards Piano Percussion percussion instrument | 2006 | Iranian Traditional Music & Gilan Folk Music | Mehra-Ava Musical Group | Bardia Sadrenoori | Hussein Mozafari | Bardia Sadrenoori | Roudaki Hall Tehran | Radnoandish Art and Cultural Institute |

### Instrumental Musical ensemble

| Number of Musician | Name | Instrumentation | Year | Theme | 2nd Performer | Place | Concert Producer |
| 2 | Piano duo | Piano | 2017 | Friend's Chant | Sepas Sadrenoori | Roudaki Hall Tehran | Radnoandish Art and Cultural Institute |
| 2 | Duet | Piano, Violin | 2018 | Homayoun Khorram Music Hymns Concert | Babak shahraki | Roudaki Hall Tehran | Radnoandish Art and Cultural Institute |
| 2 | Duet | Piano, Violin | 2018 | Rah-e-Eshgh Concert | Alireza Cheraghchi | Roudaki Hall Tehran | Radnoandish Art and Cultural Institute |
| 2 | Duet | Piano, Percussions, Electronic music | 2023 | Karvan | Soroush Kamalian | Maison Internationale de Rennes | Guilart Association |

### Solo

| Name | Instrumentation | Year | Theme | Place | Concert Producer |
| Solo | Piano | 2015 | Life Goes On... Persian Solo Piano Improvisation | Roudaki Hall Tehran | Radnoandish Art and Cultural Institute |
| Solo | Piano | 2022 | MASNAVI | Maison des associations Rennes | Guilart Association |

## Discography

| Year | Title | Publisher | | | |
| 2014 | Life Goes On | Radnoandish | | First non-vocal solo album, Genre: Persian Classical Piano, Number of Tracks: 10 | First non-Vocal Solo album, Genre: Persian Classical Piano, Number of Tracks: 10 |
| 2016 | The Life Melody | Radnoandish | | Second non-vocal solo album, Genre: Persian Classical Piano, Number of Tracks: 5 | Second non-Vocal Solo album, Genre: Persian Classical Piano, Number of Tracks: 5 |
| 2016 | Memories | Radnoandish | | Third non-vocal solo album, Genre: Persian Classical Piano, Number of Tracks: 6 | Third non-Vocal Solo album, Genre: Persian Classical Piano, Number of Tracks: 6 |
| 2017 | On Separation | Radnoandish | | Fourth non-vocal solo album, Genre: Persian Classical Piano, Number of Tracks: 4 | Fourth non-Vocal Solo album, Genre: Persian Classical Piano, Number of Tracks: 4 |
| 2018 | Adoration | Radnoandish | | Fifth non-vocal solo album, Genre: Persian Classical Piano, Number of Tracks: 9 | |
| 2020 | Romance in the Rain | Radnoandish | In collaboration with Babak Sadrenoori | | |
| 2020 | The Sounds from Rounds | Radnoandish | In collaboration with Sadegh Cheraghi | Duet album Piano & Duduk, Genre: Persian Classical music, Number of Tracks: 11 | |
| 2020 | Blithe & Swank | Radnoandish | | Sixth non-vocal solo album, Genre: Persian Classical Piano, Number of Track: 5 | |
| 2023 | Those Days | - | In collaboration with Omid Nik Bin | Instrumental orchestral album, Genre: Persian Classical music, Number of Tracks: 7 | |
His outstanding piano playing style led him to several collaborations with major and well known Iranian musicians including;
| Year | Album Title | Song | Singer | Song Writer | Composer | Piano | Publisher |
| 2016 | "Bahane e To" (Persian: بهانه تو)] | Piano & Melody | Mehdi Fallah (Persian: مهدی فلاح) | Fereydoon Moshiri | Nasser Izadi | Bardia Sadrenoori | Radnoandish |
| 2018 | "Negah e Asemani" (Persian: نگاه آسمانی) | Piano & Melody | Salar Aghili | Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani | Nasser Izadi | Bardia Sadrenoori | Radnoandish |

## Recognition

In November 2014, "The Navay e Khorram Honorary Award Festival"" under Bardia Sadrenoori Management, as the same aim, objective and vision which Homayoun Khorram had been always dream of for Iranian musicians and art lovers. Despite Bardia sadrenoori'a efforts and works towards classical national Iranian music he kept encouraging communities in order to promote young talents to engage in such activity as improving classical music. Moreover, on 2018 the 5th anniversary of "navay e khorram festival" has received an enormous number of new entry level of participants such as conductors and musicians of age between 8 and 15 which has been another limelight as global awareness