Hormoz Farhat

Hormoz Farhat (, born 9 August 1930) is a Persian-American composer, ethnomusicologist and emeritus professor of music, a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.
Life.
Born in Tehran, Persia/Iran, Farhat started to study violin with Vahe Djingouzian in Tehran but later moved to the United States and 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.
In 1959, Farhat founded the "Music of Persia Performance Group" at UCLA. 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 the music department at the University of Tehran, (1970–78) as well as the head of the 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 the 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 the University of Durham School of Music (1991–1994) and the Royal Irish Academy of Music (2001–2004 and 2011–2014).
Hormoz Farhat is married to the academic philosopher Maria Baghramian.
Music.
His compositions have been performed widely by, among many others, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and English Chamber Orchestra and most recently by the pianist Soheil Nasseri in Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall in New York as well as in the Strathmore Music Center.
Selected compositions.
Orchestral works
Chamber music
Piano music
Vocal music
Motion picture scores
Scores for feature films by prominent Iranian film directors Dariush Mehrjui: "Gaav" (The Cow, 1969), "Postchi" (Postman), and "Aagha-ye Haaloo" (Mr. Naive, 1970); and Nasser Taghvai: "Aaraamesh dar hozoor-e digaraan" (Tranquility in the Presence of Others, 1972); and "Saadegh Kordeh" (Sadeq the Kurdish, 1973). In 1970, Farhat was awarded The Golden Plaque for Best Music for the score of Mehrjui's internationally acclaimed film "Gaav".
Selected publications.
Books:
Articles