Amin Sharifi
Born in 1993, Amin Sharifi is an accomplished contemporary composer from Iran. His music has been performed in various countries, including the United States, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Russia, Canada, Poland, the Czech Republic, and his home country of Iran. Sharifi has been praised for his creativity and artistic flair, with Kathleen Supove, a renowned contemporary music pianist, describing his work as “creative, individualistic, artistic,” while the Memphis Daily News labeled it the “product of an unbridled imagination.”
Sharifi’s music has been performed by a number of new music ensembles and orchestras, including the JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Ostravska Banda, Hypercube, A&C String Quartet, Luna Nova, DissonArt, Duo Sequenza, Pierrot-Tehran, Breakout, the Indiana University Symphonic Band, and the Indiana Philharmonic. He has been featured at various international music festivals, including ReMusik (2019), Ostrava Days (2019), Synthetis (2019), eviMus (2017), Tehran Contemporary Music Festival (2016, 2018, 2019), Druskomanija Festival (2018), WSU Contemporary Art Music Festival (2019), and RISUONANZE (2017, 2019). Sharifi has also had the honor of having his music performed by renowned soloists, such as Christopher Otto, Austin Wulliman, Alex Sopp, Verena Rojc, Oliver Dizdarevic, Aleksandra Demowska-Madejska, Wojtek Psiuk, and Futaba Niekawa.
Sharifi holds a BM in Composition from Tehran University of Art, an MM from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, and an MA from Duke University. He has studied under the direction of esteemed professors, including Sven-David Sandström, Nader Mashayekhi, David Dzubay, and Don Freund, and has had lessons with renowned composers such as Chaya Czernowin, Toshio Hosokawa, Krzysztof Penderecki, Georg Friedrich Haas, Raphaël Cendo, and Oscar Bianchi.
In 2017, Sharifi won first prize in the XXIII Edition of International Composition Competition Concorso 2 Agosto for his triple concerto TrombionOphone or Riders in the Field of Hope for soprano saxophone, trombone, and accordion. The piece was performed by the Tuscanini Philharmonic Orchestra in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, Italy.
In addition to his composing work, Sharifi has also worked as an assistant conductor to Nader Mashayekhi with the Tehran Cultural Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted the Pierrot-Tehran New Music Ensemble. He has also served as the Assistant Director of the IU New Music Ensemble at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.