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Hossein Alizâdeh (Persian: حسین علی‌زاده) (b. 1950, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian musician and composer. He comes from a traditional training. He learned the Radif of Persian classical music with various masters of the tradition including Houshang Zarif, Ali Akbar Shahnazi, Noor Ali Boroomand, Mahmood Karimi, Abdollah Davami, Yusef Forutan, and Saeed Hormozi, and later recorded the entire body of the Radif based on the interpretation of Mirza Abdullah for Tar and Setar. He also received a B.A. in Music Composition and Performance from the University of Tehran, and later studied Composition and Musicology at the University of Berlin. He...

Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. His father was involved with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother was a teacher at a large girls high school in Kabul. In 1970, the Foreign Ministry sent his family to Tehran, Iran, where his father worked for the Afghan embassy. In 1973 Hosseini and his family returned to their home city of Kabul. In July 1973, Hosseini's youngest brother was born. This was the same time Afghan power changed hands through a bloodless coup. In 1976, Khaled Hosseini's father got a job in Paris, France and he moved his family to Paris....

French composer of Persian origins (b. 1905 in Samarkand; d. 1983 in Paris). His father was a rich merchant, and his mother initiated him in-to music. He was studying in Moscow when the 1917 Revolution occurred. He then left for Germany and continued his studies there, where his father wanted him to do medicine. Simultaneously, however, he studied music at the Stuttgart Conservatory, and later in Tübingen and Berlin, where he studied piano with Arthur Schnabel and composition with W. Klatt. He settled in France in 1927 and entered the Paris Conservatory, where he studied composition and orchestration with Paul...

Hossein 'Omoumi was born in Isfahãn, Iran, and began his musical education singing with his father. At the age of fourteen he began to study the ney, the traditional reed flute of Iran. In 1962, Omoumi entered the National University of Iran to study architecture, but also played the ney in musical competitions, later entering the National Conservatory of Music in Tehran. His performance career has included appearances at many of the major festivals and concert halls in Europe and the United States, including San Francisco’s World Music Festival, UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall, and Wadsworth Theater the Getty Center, in Los...

Hossein Panahi Dezhkooh (Persian: حسین پناهی دژکوه) (born 28 August 1956, Dezh'kooh, Kohkiloie, Iran - died 7 August 2004, Tehran) was an Iranian actor and poet., the Iranian Actor, writer and director. He first went to a religious (Islamic) school and came back to his town as a religious preacher, but after a false answer he gave to a woman on purpose, he was excommunicated by his family and the whole city, so he went to Tehran to attend "Anahita" School of arts in playwriting/acting. He started professional acting in some TV shows, and then directed his own written plays....