Alireza Farhang … began studying music with his father at the age of six. He continued to study the piano under Emmanuel Melikaslanian and Raphael Minaskanian, and composition with Alireza Machayeki at the University of Tehran. This latter encounter proved to be critical in the development of his musical universe. After successfully completing his university studies, he taught at the University of Tehran and founded his own music school. In 2002, he decided to pursue further studies in composition under Michel Merlet at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. He won the Albert Roussel scholarship, and obtained superior diplomas in composition and orchestration. He then pursued his studies in composition at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg (class of Ivan Fedele). He also participated in the Brice Pauset and Joshua Fineberg master classes at the Villa Medici. His music was performed by the Orchestre National de Lorraine at Acanthes 2006 where he also had the opportunity to work with Toshio Hosokawa, Olga Neuwirth and Gérard Pesson as well as with Michael Jarrell, Yan Maresz and Marco Stroppa in 2007. He is currently working on his thesis in musicology at the OMF of Sorbonne (Paris IV), under the supervision of Marc Battier and Tristan Murail, dealing with the subject « the integration of musical elements from non-Western cultures in timbre based music ». He has been accepted to read Musical Composition and Technologies as part of a new European Course jointly developed by IRCAM and the Technische Universität in Berlin. His music has been performed in various festivals in France and other countries (Festival Musica à Strasbourg, Festival d’automne à Paris…) and by ensembles such as the Nieuw Ensemble, Ensemble Alternance, Arditti String Quartet etc. Traditional Persian music has strongly influenced his work. An in-depth study of the structure of sound has led him to discover certain psycho-acoustic properties in the melodic repertoire of Persian music. His training in Western and Persian music has enabled him to combine these two musical worlds.