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Farhād Fakhreddini (Persian: فرهاد فخرالدینی) (Born 1937, Tabriz, Iran) is a renowned Iranian composer, conductor and founder of Iran’s National Orchestra. Farhad Fakhreddini was born in Tabriz in 1937. Recommended by his father he began studying violin and from 1957 for a short while he studied with Ostad Abolhasan Saba. After finishing a 3-year course of radif with Ali Tajvidi he entered the National Music Conservatory and started to study musicology. His mentors in the conservatory were Professor M. Barkeshli, Professor E. Melik-Aslanian, Zaven Hakupian, Professor M. Foruq and Professor Khachik. He graduated from the conservatory in 1965. Invited by Hossein Dehlavi, that was then the president of the National Music Conservatory, he underook in the conservatory the courses of harmony, form in the music of Iran and the combination of poetry and music. From 1965 he was the instrumentalist, composer and concert master in the orchestra of radio, while playing violin and viola in the Golha Orchestra. Afterwards he also joined the Barbad Orchestra. His arrangements and compositions were frequently performed be these orchestras. These ensembles coalesced at last to form the large Symphony Orchestra of Radio and Television. The conducting of the new orchestra was entrusted to him after two short periods of collaboration of the orchestra with Fereydun Naseri and Morteza Hannaneh. This career began from 1973 and lasted till 1979 when he resigned from it. Meanwhile he gave concerts w