Anahita Abbasi

Anahita Abbasi (b.1985) is an Iranian-born composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music, curator and educator. Born and raised in Shiraz, she moved to Austria in 2005 and pursued undergraduate studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, where she studied music theory with Clemens Gadenstätter and Christian Utz and composition with Beat Furrer and Pierluigi Billone, while also working closely with Georges Aperghis, Franck Bedrossian and Philippe Leroux. Since 2014 she has lived in San Diego and pursued doctoral studies in composition at the University of California San Diego.