Editing Hossein Alizadeh (section)

==Music career==
Alizadeh was born in 1951 in [[Tehran]]. His father was from [[Urmia]] and his mother from [[Arak, Iran|Arak]].<ref name="Harris">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/hossein-aliz%C3%A2deh-mn0000264913/biography |title=Hossein Alizadeh: Artist Biography|last=Harris|first=Craig|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=December 23, 2017}}</ref> As a teenager he attended [[secondary school]] at a music conservatory<ref name="Harris" /> until 1975. His music studies continued at the [[University of Tehran]], where his focus was [[Musical composition|composition]] and performance.<ref name="Harris" /> He began postgraduate studies at the [[Tehran University of Art]]. After the [[Iranian Revolution]], he resumed his studies at the [[University of Berlin]], where he studied composition and [[musicology]].<ref name="Harris"/>

Alizadeh plays the ''[[Tar (string instrument)|tar]]'' and ''[[setar]]''. He has performed with two of Iran's national orchestras, as well as with the [[Aref Ensemble]], the Shayda Ensemble,<ref name="Harris"/> and [[Masters of Persian Music]]. In Europe, his first professional performance was with the Bejart Ballet Company’s orchestra in a performance of a [[Maurice Béjart]] ballet called ''Golestan''.<ref name="Harris"/>