Hossein Alizadeh () is an Iranian musician, composer, radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and tar, shurangiz and setar instrumentalist and improviser. He has performed with such musicians as Shahram Nazeri, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Alireza Eftekhari and Jivan Gasparyan, as well as with a number of orchestras and ensembles. Music career Alizadeh was born in 1951 in Tehran. His father was from Urmia and his mother from Arak. As a teenager he attended secondary school at a music conservatory until 1975. His music studies continued at the University of Tehran, where his focus was composition and performance. He began postgraduate studies at the Tehran University of Art. After the Iranian Revolution, he resumed his studies at the University of Berlin, where he studied composition and musicology. Alizadeh plays the tar and setar. He has performed with two of Iran's national orchestras, as well as with the Aref Ensemble, the Shayda Ensemble, and Masters of Persian Music. In Europe, his first professional performance was with the Bejart Ballet Company’s orchestra in a performance of a Maurice Béjart ballet called Golestan. Awards He has been nominated for the 2007 Grammy Award along with Armenian musician, Djivan Gasparyan, for their collaboration album, The Endless Vision. In 2008, he was voted as "Iran's most distinguished musician of the year". In November 28, 2014 he refused to accept France’s high distinction in art, Legion of Honour. Inventions Dad o Bidad: A new maqam in Persian music, through combining the gusheh of dad in dastgah of Mahour and the gusheh of bidad in dastgah of Homayoun. Sallaneh and Shoor-Angiz: Two new musical instruments derived from the ancient Persian lute barbat. Works 2020 – Evanesce, with Hamavayan Ensemble 2014 – Eşqim Gəl, with Hamavayan Ensemble (Azerbaijani language) 2010 – Birthplace of Earth, with Hamavayan Ensemble, Ba Music Records. 2009 – Half Moon, Ba Music Records. 2009 – Echoes of Light with Madjid Khaladj, Ba Music Records. 2007 – Ode To Flowers, with Hamavayan Ensemble, Ba Music Records. 2006 – Endless Vision, with Djivan Gasparyan 2005 – Birds, with Madjid Khaladj and Homa Niknam, Ba Music Records. 2005 – Faryad (The Cry),with MR Shajaian, Keyhan Kalhor and H Shajarian, World Village Music 2003 – Sallaneh, Mahoor Institute 2002 – Bi To Be Sar Nemishavad (Without You), MR Shajarian,Keyhan Kalhor and Homayoun Shajarian, World Village Music 2001 – Chahargah & Bayat-e Tork with Hossein Omumi, M Ghavihelm, Mahoor Institute 2000 – Zemestan ast