Mohammad Saeed Sharifian

Mohammad Saeed Sharifian was born in 1955 in Tehran, Iran. He left Iran at an early age in order to pursue his musical training in England, where he subsequently studied composition, flute, piano, percussion and Visual Arts. During this period, he studied at Huddersfield University, Leeds College of Nusic, the Royal Colleges of London and for four years at the Colchester Institute of Music (Anglian University) with, among other composers, Philip Canon, a former pupil of Vaughan Williams.
he became a member of a group of composers who were actively involved in writing, exploring and also performing modern musical trends of the time. In 1984, while completing his PhD in electroacoustic music and acoustics in Italy, he became the resident composer for two major orchestras in Tuscany, composing regularly for the orchestras’ European tours. In 1990 he returned to Iran, where he engaged himself in composing orchestral and various ensemble scores based on the musical material of Persian folklore in order to develop further the Iranian musical language of the time.