Musicologist · Researcher · Guitar Instructor

Arash
Ahmadzadeh

Arash Ahmadzadeh

Researcher, translator, and guitar instructor specializing in the history of Baroque music and the Baroque guitar, with particular attention to the relationship between music and power. His work has been published in leading academic journals including Iranian Studies, Soundboard Scholar, Early Music, Music Analysis, and College Music Symposium.

Breuillet Conservatory, Paris, France
Iranian Musicological Society — Executive Board & Editor
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Publications
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Languages
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Specialisation
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Publications

2025

Peer-Reviewed Article · Cambridge University Press

Music, Ideology, and Youth: A Case Study of the Song 'Salām Farmāndeh' and the Evolution of 'Soruds' in Contemporary Iran

Iranian Studies

Cambridge University Press → doi.org/10.1017/irn.2025.10124
2025

Peer-Reviewed Article · College Music Society

Transcribing French Baroque Guitar for Classical Guitar: Semi Re-entrant Tuning in Robert de Visée's Suite in D Minor (1686)

College Music Symposium, Vol. 65, no. 2

→ doi.org/10.18177/sym.2025.65.sr.11691
2022

Book Chapter · PanjKhat Editions · In Persian

Serial Analysis of the Gavotte in French Baroque Opera

Collected Essays in Musicology. Tehran: PanjKhat Editions, pp. 74–88

ISBN: 979-0-802634-54-1

2023

Master's Thesis · Sorbonne University, Paris

From the Baroque Guitar to the Modern Guitar: Transcription of the A Minor Suite from "La Guitarre Royalle Dedicated to the King of Great Britain"

M.A. in Musicology (Research Track) — Final average: 15.1/20 (Distinction)

Sorbonne University, Paris

Supervised by Théodora Psychoyou (IReMus, Vice-President of the International Musicological Society). Examines Francesco Corbetta's La Guitarre Royalle (1671), dedicated to Charles II of England, with a critical transcription of its A minor suite for modern guitar.

→ View on ResearchGate
2025

Review Article · University of Denver

The Resurgence of Interest in Historically Informed Performance

Soundboard Scholar, Vol. 10(1)

Double review of Afshin Torabi Ardekani's Interpreting Baroque Music and Peter Croton's Performing Baroque Music on the Classical Guitar.

→ doi.org/10.56902/SBS.2025.10.12
2025

Conference Report · Oxford University Press

Birmingham's Biennial Baroque

Early Music (Oxford University Press)

Oxford University Press

Commissioned to report on the 21st Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music (ICBM) at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, July 2025.

→ doi.org/10.1093/em/caaf046
2024

Interview · Lute Society of America Quarterly

From Bartolotti to Sor — Interview with Lex Eisenhardt

LSA Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Winter): 6–11

Extended interview with lutenist and Baroque guitarist Lex Eisenhardt on historical performance practice, lute and guitar repertories, and the challenges of transcription.

2024

Interview · University of Tehran · In Persian

Persian Language Facing Western Music — Interview with Dariush Ashuri

Farâhang Music Quarterly, Vol. 6 (9–10): 204–209

On the challenges of rendering Western music terminology in Persian — spelling conventions, neologism, and the cultural stakes of musical translation.

2025

Research Blog · EarlyMuse COST Action · University of Glasgow

Early Music on Early Recordings: Toward a Sustainable, Co-Created Database

With Áurea Domínguez & Eva Moreda Rodríguez — EarlyMuse Blog, September 12, 2025

Outcome of a Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) at the University of Glasgow, funded by COST. Initiated development of a co-created scholarly database connecting early music scholarship with early recordings.

→ earlymuse.eu/publications/blog
2024

Essay · La Lettre du Musicien · In French

Que Faire Après les Études Musicologiques?

La Lettre du Musicien, Vol. 582: 50–53

Reflective essay on careers and professional pathways after musicology studies, written for France's leading music professionals' magazine.

2023

Online Article · IranMusicology.com · In Persian & French

Mademoiselle Bouquet: the Forgotten Lutenist?

IranMusicology.com

→ iranmusicology.com/mlle-bocquet
2023

Online Article · IranMusicology.com · In Persian

Mensuration and the Feminine Voice

IranMusicology.com

→ iranmusicology.com
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Book Translations

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Awards & Grants

Research Grant · 2025

COST Action Short-Term Scientific Mission

European Cooperation in Science & Technology
University of Glasgow · Early Recordings Association

2025

Best Website · Art & Culture

IranMusicology.com

14th Iran Web & Mobile Festival

2021
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Research Interests

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Music & Power in the Baroque Era

The entanglement of music and political power in 17th-century France and England — patronage networks, the Baroque guitar at court, and figures such as Francesco Corbetta in the orbit of Louis XIV and Charles II.

Music, Politics & Identity in Iran

Musical culture, ideology, and national identity in contemporary Iran — state-sponsored repertoire, revolutionary song, and the politics of music education and dissemination.

Translation & Transcription

The theory and practice of musical and textual translation — rendering Baroque sources for modern instruments, cultural stakes of music terminology in Persian, and the epistemology of scholarly translation across languages.

Baroque Guitar & Historically Informed Performance

History, repertory, and performance conventions of the Baroque guitar — tuning systems, tablature, ornamentation, style brisé, and the challenges of historically informed performance on plucked instruments.

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Contact

I welcome correspondence about Baroque guitar research, historically informed performance, translation, and scholarly collaboration.

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InstitutionBreuillet Conservatory, Paris, France

Professional Memberships

Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
Royal Musical Association
Iranian Musicological Society
International Musicological Society

Profiles & Repositories