Tolib-khon Shakhidi (Толиб-хон Шахиди) or Tolib Shahidi (/, born 13 March 1946) is a Tajik and Soviet composer who was born in the city of Dushanbe, Tajik SSR. He is a son of the founder of Professional Tajik Academic Music – Ziyodullo Shakhidi.
Early life
Tolib-khon Shakhidi began his musical career at the age of fourteen. He graduated from the Musical College in Dushanbe in 1965 from the Composition Class of Uri Ter-Osipov.
Career
From 1972 to this day, Tolib Shakhidi has participated in a number of music festivals.
"Taste, intellect, professionalism are the three main values of contemporary music" (). This aphorism, expressed by the composer fully complies with his own creative work. Tolib Shahidi represents a very rare type of Universal master-composer, who possesses the whole arsenal of contemporary musical language, yet uses the richest resources of traditional Eastern music of his region. This twin pillar is not an obstacle, but the most important source of his artistic power and originality.
He won the 2008 Georges Delerue Award for his score of the film Two-Legged Horse.
Personal life
Tolibkhon Shakhidi is married to Gulsifat Shakhidi.
List of major works
1975 – Festival, symphonic poem
1978 – Death of usurer, suite of ballet
1978 – Tajiks, symphony No. 2
1980 – Rubai of Khaiam, film ballet
1981 – Charkh, symphony for chamber orchestra
1981 – Sonata No. 1 for piano
1981 – Recitative of Rumi, suite for flute and piano
1984 – Sado, symphonic poem
1988 – Caliph-stork, operas for children
1989 – Karlic-nose, operas for children
1989 – Beauty yosif, ballet
1991 – Sonata No. 2 for piano
1991 – Sonata No. 2 for piano and chamber orchestra
1992 – Siavush, ballet
1993 – Beauty and Monster, opera
1993 – Concerto for violin and chamber orchestra
1994 – Concert No. 3 for piano and orchestra
1997 – Concert No. 1 for string orchestra
1998 – Firdavsiada, concerto No. 2 for string orchestra
1998 – Sufi-dancer, music for 15 instruments
1998 – Istanbul-capricci, for saxophone and chamber orchestra. 1999 – Dobro vam, vocal cycle for tenor and symphonic orchestra. Poems of Hofiz, Goethe, Pushkin 1999 – Amir Ismoil, opera 2000 – Silk road dreams dancing, septet 2000 – Pictures under moon, for R. Finn poem, soprano and chamber orchestra 2001 – Algorismus marimba+, sextet 2001 – Contrasts in 55 2001 – Contrasts, music for violin and piano 2002 – King Lear, music for tragedy of Shakespeare 2002 – Persian Suite, music for string orchestra 2002 – Sufi and Buddha, pictures etude for piano 2004 – Concerto Grosso No. 3, for santur, violino solo and chamber orchestra 2005 – Contrast of times, vocal cycle for soprano and symphonic orchestra, words of Paul Valéry and Rekan 2007 – Birds talking, suite for three flute 2008 – Adagio, for violoncello solo in remembrance of Aram Khachaturian 2008 – Allegro in 5, for chamber ensemble 2008 – Four retro miniature for chorus A-Capella, in remembrance of Ziyodullo Shakhidi 2008 – Playing Backgammon, for piano 2009 – Verdi-Shakhidi, paraphrase for piano from opera Traviata 2010 – Concerto for clarinet and orchestra 2011 – Quartet for 4 cellos, from Indian Raga 2012 – Darius, pictures for Symphonic Orchestra 2012 – Adagio – Existence, for string orchestra 2013 – Rhapsody Dialogue: Theme of Aram Khachaturian, for piano and orchestra
Discography
Symphonic music (1997) Great Hall of Moscow State Conservatoire, Author Concert (1999) Symphonic Music (2004) Symphonic music and ballet extracts (2002) Movie Music & Existence – various music written for movies and theatre between 1969–2008 (2004) Concert featuring works of Tolibkhon Shakhdi, Live (2006) Gergiev-Shakhidi – Valery Gergiev, London Symphony Orchestra & Mariinsky Orchestra (2012) Anthology of piano music by Russian and Soviet composers, vol.7 – Melodija, (2014)