ALZ-Music
Alisher Latif-Zade Music
PEDAGOGY
Music Education, Composition Training & Creative Development
Alisher Latif-Zade’s teaching work brings together composition, performance, ear training, rhythm, orchestration, and creative musicianship. His educational materials are designed for students, teachers, ensembles, and music schools, from beginner to advanced levels.
Areas of instruction include:
• Composition and songwriting
• Music theory, harmony, counterpoint, and orchestration
• Ear training, rhythm dictation, and sight-reading
• Violin and piano studies
• Ensemble training and creative music projects
• Preparation for exams, auditions, and creative portfolios
Educational materials, method books, exercises, and training collections may be requested through ALZ Music Edition.
Alisher Latif-Zade - Educator. Motto, Principles, and Teaching Approach for Student Composers
01. For me, a music lesson or lecture is a creative process. It is not simply a relationship between teacher and student, but a collaboration between senior and younger colleagues who create together.
02. I believe that a student’s creative growth is not measured by the amount of homework completed, but by the quality of creative activity, imagination, and artistic involvement.
03. I always take into account each student’s personal interests and help guide them along their own chosen path, whether in classical music, minimalism, aleatoric music, jazz, serial technique, or other creative styles.
04. From the beginning of the educational process, the teacher should involve students in real artistic activity: concerts, festivals, public performances, and opportunities for their compositions to be performed by American, European, Russian, and international musicians.
05. A student’s imagination should be developed through other forms of art as well. This may include quarterly concerts of student compositions and the organization of competitions among students from music schools and high schools in California, New York, and other states.
06. Student conferences, including online conferences, may be organized between music schools, high schools, and young composers from California, New York, and other regions.
07. Creative exchange between students from the United States, Russia, and Central Asia is an important part of artistic development.
08. Student compositions should be promoted within the school through performances, presentations, and collaborations with performers, faculty members, and musicologists.
09. A student composers’ newspaper or bulletin can help young musicians develop critical thinking. Students may write short articles, reviews, notes, and reflections as music observers, critics, or future musicologists.
10. Important musical dates, anniversaries, and cultural events can become the basis for international music forums involving student composers, guest artists, foreign visitors, and professional colleagues.
1000 and One Step to Composition — Volume One
A training manual for young composers, teachers, and graduate students. This volume includes exercises, dictations, tasks, and tests designed to develop compositional skills, musical memory, inner hearing, polyphonic thinking, counterpoint, form, instrumentation, and music theory.
The material may be used in conservatories, music schools, composition classes, and preparation programs for advanced music study.
1000 and One Step to Composition — Volume Two
This volume focuses on instrumentation and orchestration tasks for young composers, teachers, and graduate students.
The exercises help students understand instrument ranges, timbre, color, balance, expressive possibilities, and basic orchestral thinking. The volume includes 50 test tasks and may be used in composition, instrumentation, and orchestration classes.
1000 and One Step to Composition — Volume Three
This volume focuses on ear training and solfeggio for young composers, teachers, and graduate students.
The exercises are designed to develop inner hearing, musical memory, aural awareness, logical thinking, and practical solfeggio skills. The volume includes 70 exercises, organized into 7 complexes of 10 exercises each.
100 Ethno-Rhythmical Dictations
A collection of 100 rhythmic dictations based on Central Asian rhythmic traditions, with special attention to Tajik rhythmic structures.
The material is designed to develop musical hearing, rhythmic memory, inner hearing, musical thinking, and a broader understanding of non-traditional meter and rhythm. The dictations may be used in ear training, rhythm classes, composition studies, and music theory programs.
Students may work with these materials through singing, conducting, listening, analysis, notation, and performance.
The Express Effective Training Method of Playing the Violin
A practical violin training method designed for fast progress in reading, technique, musical memory, and performance skills.
The method combines original tasks, exercises, and lesson-plan materials developed through teaching experience with young students in the United States. It may be used for private lessons, music schools, beginner violin programs, and individual corrective work based on each student’s abilities.
Daily Exercises and Etudes for the Violin
A collection of 138 original pieces, exercises, and etudes for very young violinists.
The book focuses on early violin technique, reading skills, musical memory, coordination, and daily practice habits. It includes non-traditional technical exercises and short etudes designed for beginner and elementary-level violin students.
The material may be used in private lessons, music schools, and early violin training programs.
Teaching Areas & Exam Preparation
Alisher Latif-Zade offers instruction, coaching, and educational materials in the following areas:
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ABRSM (UK) test ( Piano,Violin,Theory - All levels ) preparation
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Composition: classical, contemporary, jazz, and world music
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Computer music notation (Sibelius) and score preparation
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Chamber ensemble organization and coaching
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String ensemble coaching and conducting
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Percussion ensemble coaching and conducting
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Middle Eastern / Central Asian ensemble coaching
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Jazz band coaching and arranging
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Chamber orchestra coaching and conducting
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Sight-reading
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Instrumentation and orchestration for symphony orchestra
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Instrumentation and arranging for big band
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Songwriting
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Arrangement (Orchestration)
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The music history of Central Asia
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Contemporary music of Central Asia
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Russian music history, 19th-21st centuries
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World contemporary music of 20th-21st centuries
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Harmony
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Music Computer software ,including Logic pro X
Winter Honor Recital. .Students of Dr A.Latif-Zade
F. Burgmüller. "L'Orage (The Storm)"
