of music to Harvard University. Farhat moved to Northern Ireland in 1979 as a senior research fellow at Queen's University, Belfast and then to the Republic of Ireland as the chair, professor and head of the School of Music in Trinity College Dublin (1982–95). Among his students at Trinity College was Donnacha Dennehy, who became among the leading Irish composers of contemporary classical music. He was a guest lecturer at numerous institutions including universities of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Durham, Amsterdam, Cologne, Warsaw, Ljubljana, Copenhagen, Stockholm and The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. He was the external examiner at the University of Durham School of Music (1991–1994) and the Royal Irish Academy of Music (2001–2004 and 2011–2014). Hormoz Farhat was married first to Dr Laina (Chazan) Farhat-Holzman in 1952 In Los Angeles, California. They had two children, Kameron Chazan Farhat (deceased), and Ariana (Farhat) Dane. In the late 60's he was briefly married to the pianist Mahin Zarrinpanjeh in Tehran followed by Jaleh Seraj in 1970 with whom he had a son Ram. In the 80's he had relocated to Dublin, Ireland and was married to the academic philosopher Maria Baghramian and had a son Robert. Farhat died in Dublin, Ireland, aged 93. In December 2021 the University College Cork and the University of Tehran jointly organised a virtual memorial for Prof. Farhat. Music Overview His compositions have been performed widely by, among many others, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and English Chamber Orchestra and most recently by the pianist Soheil Nasseri in Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall in New York as well as in the Strathmore Music Center. Selected recordings String Quartets, Nos. 1, 2 & 3: St Petersburg String Quartet & Arvand String Quartet (Ravi-Azar-Kimia Institute, 2007). Persian Autumn (piano work): Mary Dullea, piano (Divine Arts, 2020). Selected compositions Orchestral works Sinfonia Concertante, for seven solo instruments, soprano and orchestra Mazandarani Rhapsody, for orchestra Theme and Variations Sinfonietta Three Songs of Sa'di, for soprano and orchestra Fantasy and Fugue, for string orchestra Concerto Grosso, for piano and string orchestra Flute Concerto Clarinet Concerto Sougue, elegy for orchestra Nouveau rivage and La Nuit éternelle, two orchestral pieces after the poem "Le Lac" of Alphonse de Lamartine. Chamber music 6 string quartets 3 wind trios Duo for Violin and Viola Divertimento for Saxophone Quartet (published, Chicago: Leblanc Music Publishers, 1966) Piano Quintet Partita for Wind Quintet Piano