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Hossein Omoumi
Maseeh Professor of Persian Performing Arts (Ney)
Office: 201 Music and Media
Phone: 949.824.0501
Email: homoumi@uci.edu
Website: www.omoumi.com
Ph.D., University of Florence
Hossein Omoumi was born in Isfahãn, Iran, and began his musical
education singing with his father. At age 14 he began to study the ney, the
traditional reed flute of Iran.
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In 1962, Omoumi entered the National
University of Iran to study architecture, but also played the ney in musical
competitions, later entering the National Conservatory of Music in Tehran.
His performance career has included appearances at many of the major
festivals and concert halls in Europe and the United States, including San
Francisco's World Music Festival, UCLA's Schoenberg Hall and Wadsworth
Theater the Getty Center, in Los Angeles, the World Music Institute and
Asia Society in New York, and Theatre de la Ville in Paris.
Omoumi is a noted scholar and teacher of Persian music, having served
on the National Conservatory and Tehran University in Tehran, Center for
Oriental Music Studies of Sorbonne University in Paris, UCLA in Los
Angeles and the Ethnomusicology Department of the University of
Washington in Seattle. He is also an architect, having received his
Doctorate from the University of Florence, Italy.
His research on the making of the ney and percussion opened new
possibilities and introduced significant innovations to the ney, tombak and
daf. For more information please visit, www.omoumi.com.
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