Hamidreza Fallahi

Hamidreza Fallahi is a PhD student of Ethnomusicology at the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. Hamidreza is interested in the areas of the Middle East and Latin America, and specialized in the regional music of the south of Iran. His research interests include studies of Persian classical music, and music and nationalism. He has completed his bachelor of science in power electrical engineering from Shiraz University and his master of arts in ethnomusicology from the College of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran, with a focus on the music of Bushehr, a southern Iranian port city. Hamidreza has presented numerous lectures on the musical and cultural aspects of Khayyami, a southern Iranian genre of music in Iran and the United States for musician and non-musician audience and has published some results of his studies in Iranian journals of music, such as Mahoor Quarterly of Music. In addition to in-depth studies of this genre, he has conducted performances of Khayyami with the members of Bereket Middle Eastern Ensemble in different stages in Austin, Texas. In addition to studying cultural dimensions of music, Fallahi has pursued practicing music through playing Setar and Oud, and has presented the sound of the Persian classical music through collaborations with the New Music Ensemble at the UT-Austin. Hamid is currently the Ethnomusicology Colloquium Representative of the Association of Graduate Ethno/Musicology Students (AGEMS), the assigned archivist of the Archive of Ethnomusicology and the teaching assistant of the Bereket Middle Eastern Ensemble at the University of Texas at Austin.