Mehdi Javanfar

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Mehdi Javanfar is an active conductor, and educator. He is a two times recipient of the Graduate Merit Awards in Conducting at the University of Michigan, where he studied with Maestro Kenneth Kiesler. His other conducting teachers include Dwight Bennett, and the late Gustav Meier. Mehdi has conducted London Symphony Orchestra, Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Hamilton Symphonic Band, University of Michigan various orchestras, Hart house Strings, the Composers’ Orchestra consisting of the members of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Toronto Sinfonia of Nations, which he founded. He is currently the guest conductor of the Pembroke Symphony Orchestra in their Christmas concert, and their Winter concert. His future engagements include Kharkiv Philharmonic Orchestra in Ukraine, where he will be conducting Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Ukrainian Pianist, Tatiana Primak Khoury, among other pieces.