Hormoz Farhat Musical artist
Hormoz Farhat (Persian: هرمز فرهت) Born 1929 Tehran, is a composer, ethnomusicologist and Emeritus Professor of Music, Dublin University, Trinity College and a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.He 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 PhD in composition and ethnomusicology from UCLA (1965). He studied composition with Darius Milhaud, Lukas Foss, and Roy Harris.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 was a Professor and Head of Music Department at University of Tehran, (1970–78) as well as the Head of 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 School of Music in Trinity College, University of 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, Koln, Warsaw, Ljubljana, Copenhagen, Stockholm and The Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. He has been the external examiner, at University of Durham School of Music (1991–1994) and Royal Irish Academy of Music (2001–2004 and 2011–2014).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 Strathmore Music Center.Hormoz Farhat is married to the academic philosopher Maria Baghramian.
