Born in 1989 in Tehran (IRAN), lives and works in Paris
Education
2020
Master of Improvisation and musicale Creation | Musicology
PSPBB | Université Paris 8 | France
2018
DEM (Diplôme d’Etudes Musicale) of Composition
[ first prize ] CRR de Boulogne-Billancourt | class of Mr Jean-Luc Hervé | France
Perfectionnement de Composition
Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris-Alfred Cortot | class of Mr Eric Tanguy | France
2015
Diplôme Supérieur de Composition
Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris-Alfred Cortot | class of Mme Edith LEJET | France
2014
Diplôme de Composition
[ first prize ] Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris-Alfred Cortot | class of Mme Edith LEJET | France
2012
Bachelor of Arts in Santour performance
[ first prize ] Tehran University - Fine arts faculty of Music and Drama | IRAN
2006
Diploma of Santour performance
The Tehran Conservatory of Music | class of Mme Mina Oftadeh | IRAN
Publications
2024
Scores | Éditions Musicales Artchipel - FRANCE :
- L’odeur de ma couronne de papier
- Howl
- Il neige, des cendres
- Dis
- À l’orée
- Élégie
2022
- Silences inouïs [score] | Note en Bulle Éditions - FRANCE [Link]
2021
- [Album] Iranian New Waves [Link]
“En crépuscule” for Bass-flute solo | Petricor Records - US
- Lout [score] | Note en Bulle Éditions [Link]
- Gabbéh [score] | Note en Bulle Éditions [Link]
2019
- [Album] “Addressing Butterflies” [Link]
Poem and voice of Reza Baraheni | Petrichor Records - US
2012
- [Album] “20 pieces for Santour” [Link]
Selected works of Hossein Alizadeh | Mahoor Institute of Culture and Arts | Tehran - IRAN
Awards and Qualifications
2025
- Pensionnaire | Académie de France à Rome Villa Médicis [2025-2026]
- Compositrice en résidence | Festival des Arcs (July 2025)
2024
- “Les Prix Pulsations Contemporaines” (ex Prix symphonique) : Claude Arrieu composition prix - Comité du cœur de la SACEM
- Compositrice en résidence | Ensemble Ars Nova | 2024-2027
- Compositrice en résidence | Maison de la Musique Contemporaine | Avril-juin 2024
2023
- Selected composer of 24th édition of « Le Grand Prix Lycéen des Compositeurs » | « Le Prix des professeurs de collège » for the piece Balades oniriques - FRANCE
2022
- Selected composer for «Atelier de composition with Georges Aperghis» | L’Instant Donné Ensemble - Paris
2021
Selected composer for « Académie des jeunes compositrices » | Orchestre de Chambre de Paris
2019
Selected composer for “Alain Louvier”’s composition prize, Boulogne-Billancourt competition | FRANCE
2016-18
Scholarship by “Minou Amir-Aslani” foundation | Paris
2015
Selected composer of “ACIMC” composition competition | Paris
2012
Member of IRAN’s National Organisation of Elites
2011
Honor Diploma of UN-HABITAT de l’ONU, for participating in the album “Ava-ye-Solh”
2009
Honor Diploma of DAAD organisation, Allemagne
2008
- First prize of the Festival “Avay-e-Mehr” | Tehran
-Awarded as Best musician of the Festival “Solistes of Tehran”
2006
First prize of “IRAN’s Fin Arts Faculties Festival ” | Tehran
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