Marganita Vogt-Khofri

Marganita "Maggie" Vogt-Khofri (Persian: مارگانیتا خفری ), (borned 1952 in Kermanshah - ), is an Assyrian-Iranian pianist, classical musician and vocalist.[1]

Biography

Marganita "Maggie" Vogt-Khofri is an Assyrian classical musician and vocalist, born in Kermanshah, Iran in 1952. Her parents were both from Iraq, her mother was Jeni and her father Paulus Khofri, was one of the famous Assyrian composers, and also maestro and painter. She spoused to Edwin Vogt and moved to Zurich with her two children in 1984.

Khofri is also a volunteer social activist and works for Karitas, a division of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in Switzerland which helping people of the Middle-East such as Iranian, Kurdish and Assyrian people to request refuge and immigration.[2][3]

Music

Vogt-Khofri firt start to learning piano at the age of eleven, when her family were in Tehran. She went to Tehran Conservatory of Music and then moved to the United States to complete high school. She began studying Christian spiritual songs very soon and also began to playing the guitar. She returned to Tehran and attended the University of Tehran and earned her Master's Degree in piano, opera and musicology. She was accepted in Tehran Opera House, known as Talar-e Vahdat, as a vocalist (soprano and alto) when she was 18. There, she performed for twelve years in the choir and later became the director of the Women’s Conservatory of Tehran for many years.[4][5]

Vogt-Khofri as a member of the Assyrian Folkloric Dancing Ensemble is also a folk dancer. That is an ensemble under the direction of Madam Lily Tamraz. She was selected as a folkloric representative by the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Arts to participate in the Arts Festival at the Folkloric Music and Dances of Worldwide Nations in Cannes, France.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Evi:Marganita Vogt-Khofri.
  2. ↑ Courtesy of Nineveh Magazine, Vol 22, #1&2.
  3. ↑ Iranian Classical Musicians: Loris Tjeknavorian, Andr Hossein, Marganita Vogt-Khofri, Ali Rahbari, Darya Dadvar, Nader Mashayekhi, Books LLC, ISBN 9781157509493.
  4. ↑ Courtesy of Nineveh Magazine, Vol 22, #1&2.
  5. ↑ Iranian Classical Musicians: Loris Tjeknavorian, Andr Hossein, Marganita Vogt-Khofri, Ali Rahbari, Darya Dadvar, Nader Mashayekhi, Books LLC, ISBN 9781157509493.
  6. ↑ Courtesy of Nineveh Magazine, Vol 22, #1&2.