Hormoz Farhat

Hormoz Farhat
Background information
Born	1930
Origin	Tehran, Iran
Genres	Classical music Contemporary Music
Occupation(s)	Composer, ethnomusicologist, professor of music

Hormoz Farhat (Persian: هرمز فرهت) (born 9 August 1930) is an Iranian-Irish composer, ethnomusicologist and Emeritus Professor of Music, a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.

Born in Tehran, Iran, Farhat received a BA in music from the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA (1953), an MA in composition from Mills College, California (1955), and a Ph.D. in composition and ethnomusicology from UCLA (1965). He studied composition with Darius Milhaud, Lukas Foss, and Roy Harris.

During his years in California Farhat worked first as an Assistant Professor of Music at California State University, Long Beach (1961–64) and then as Associate Professor of Music at University of California, Los Angeles (1964–69).

On returning to Iran he became a Professor and Head of Music Department at University of Tehran, (1970–78) as well as the Head of Music Council in the National Iranian Radio and Television Network (1969–78) and Shiraz Arts Festival. He was Vice Chancellor at Farabi University in Tehran (1975–77). In 1972 and 1973 he was invited as a visiting professor of music to Harvard University.

Farhat moved to Northern Ireland in 1979 as a Senior Research Fellow at Queen's University, Belfast and then to the Republic of Ireland as the Chair, Professor and Head of School of Music in Trinity College Dublin (1981–95). He has been a guest lecturer at numerous institutions including universities of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana; Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Durham, Amsterdam, Cologne, Warsaw, Ljubljana, Copenhagen, Stockholm and The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. He has been the external examiner at University of Durham School of Music (1991–1994) and Royal Irish Academy of Music (2001–2004 and 2011–2014).

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