Lyrics of Mystical Love: East and West (JINES 390) Keshavarz  Tags: comparative_literature near_east religion islam  

Parissa and Hossein Omoumi are two of the more well-known, classically trained, Persian composers. Born in 1950 on Shahsavar, Iran, Parissa worked for a time with the Center of Preservation and Dissemination of Music. Although she ceased this affiliation in 1995, she still travels the world as a teacher and singer.

Hossein Omoumi, who enjoys a faculty appointment at the University of California - Irvine, was born in Isfahan, Iran. 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.