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Hossein Alizadeh

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Hossein Alizadeh, playing Tar.
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Hossein Alizadeh, playing Sallaneh.

Hossein Alizadeh (in Persian: حسین علیزاده) is an Iranian composer, Radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and excellent Tar and Setar instrumentalist and improvisor, dubbed by many as an Ostad (Master of Persian music). He was considered by critics to be one of the most promising artists of his generation.

Biography

Alizadeh was born in 1951 in Tehran. He graduated from the music conservatory in 1975 and entered the school of fine arts in the University of Tehran where he studied composition and Persian music. He continued his education at the University of Berlin in composition and musicology. He studied with various masters of Traditional Persian Music such as Houshang Zarif, Ali Akbar Shahnazi, Nur-Ali Borumand, Mahmoud Karimi, Abdollah Davami, Yusef Forutan, and Sa'id Hormozi. From these masters he learned the radif of Persian classical music.

He plays the Tar and Setar, and has recently derived the Sallaneh and Shoor-Angiz from the ancient Persian lute Barbat.

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Film Scores

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