Iran’s Alizadeh wins Asian world music Award

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News ID: 9937
Iran » Iran
Publish Date: 8:45 - 26 May 2017
TEHRAN, May 26, YJC - Iranian musician Hossein Alizadeh received Asian world music Award from World Music center.
Iran’s Alizadeh wins Asian world music Award
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The foundation working as world music center commemorates artists who connect their countries with other parts of the world, especially Asian countries.

Hossein Alizadeh is an Iranian composer, radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and tar and setar instrumentalist and improviser, described by Allmusic as a leading Iranian classical composer and musician.
 
He has made numerous recording with prominent musicians including Shajarian, Nazeri, Madjid Khaladj, and Gasparyan, and is a member of the Musical group, Masters of Persian Music.
 
Alizadeh was born in 1951. As a teenager he attended secondary school at a music conservatory until 1975. His music studies continued at the University of Tehran, where his focus was composition and performance. He began postgraduate studies at the Tehran University of Art. After the Iranian Revolution, he resumed his studies at the University of Berlin, where he studied composition and musicology.
 
Alizadeh plays the tar and setar. He has performed with two of Iran's national orchestras, as well as with the Aref Ensemble, the Shayda Ensemble, and Masters of Persian Music. In Europe, his first professional performance was with the Bejart Ballet Company’s orchestra in a performance of a Maurice Béjart ballet called Golestan.



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