Hossein Alizadeh
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| Background information | |
| Born | August 23, 1951 |
| Origin | Tehran, Iran |
| Genres | Persian traditional music, Sound track |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, lute player |
| Instruments | Tar, setar (also sallaneh, shurangiz) |
| Years active | 1973–present |
Hossein Alizâdeh (Persian: حسین علیزاده) 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.
Alizâdeh was born in 1951 in Tehran to an Azeri father (from Urmia) and a Persian mother (from Tehran). 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.
Alizâdeh 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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