Anahita Abbasi

Anahita Abbasi (1985) is an Iranian composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic. She has studied music theory with Clemens Gadenstaetter and composition with Beat Furrer and Pierluigi Billone in University of music and performing Arts Graz, Austria. She worked closely and attended various master-classes with Georges Aperghis, Franck Bedrossian, Philippe Leroux, Francesco Filidei and Raphael Cendo.
Her music has been featured in various countries, such as :Austria, Netherland, Germany, France, Hungary, Russia, Korea, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Greece, Spain, Switzerland and USA.
Anahita is the winner of ASCAP young composers Award (2015), work- scholarship from Experimentalstudio des SWR in Freiburg (2014) and one of the founders of Ensemble and association Schallfeld (for Contemporary music and sound art) in Graz, Austria (since 2013).
She is currently residing in San Diego and pursuing her Phd in Composition with Rand Steiger at the university of California San Diego.