He has a world-famous son and has lived in Austria since the 1980s: musician Khosro Soltani grew up in Iran and was one of the first Persians in Vorarlberg. As soon as he arrived he felt welcome and at home. And it stayed that way.
“When I came to Vienna to study at the then music academy, I was a rich musician by education. My bassoon teacher was totally surprised that we have such a perfected playing technique in the Orient.” He remains enthusiastic when he talks about his early student days in Tehran. Khosro Soltani, father of the now world-famous cellist Kian Soltani, benefited from Iran’s cultural opening to the West. “It had a lot to do with Farah Pahlavi, the wife of the Shah of Persia. She was a very developed person. We owe it to her that one of the most modern cultural festivals in Iran took place in the late 1960s, which was then unfortunately discontinued by the Khomeini regime.”
Source: Krone
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