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Nami Nazar, age 18,

is an Iranian composer/violinist based in New York. He is currently studying violin at the college division of the Juilliard School as a student in Naoko Tanaka's studio. Nami is a prize winner of various competitions, including the National Youth Music Festival in Iran. He has given numerous performances as a soloist and chamber musician in venues such as the Alice Tully Hall (Lincoln Center), the Peter Jay Sharp, the Paul Hall, and the Wilson Theater (The Juilliard School), the Vahdat Hall, and the Niavaran Cultural Center (Tehran, Iran). Nami has performed as a concertmaster and soloist with the Tehran Music Conservatory's Orchestra at the Fajr International Music Festival. He is currently performing in the Juilliard’s Orchestra and has performed as an assistant principal with the Juilliard Pre-college Symphony Orchestra. His recent masterclass appearances have been with Khullip Jeung at the Juilliard School and Igor Petrushevski in Tehran. In the summers of 2021 and 2022, Nami attended the Meadowmount School of Music where he performed numerous solo and chamber music concerts.

As a multifaceted musician, Nami pursues a strong interest in composing and conducting. He has had the privilege of composing for and conducting the Pars Symphony Orchestra in Iran and has participated in conducting masterclasses with distinguished conductors such as Shahrdad Rohani (Former Tehran Symphony Orchestra director). In his first year as a bachelor's student, his piece was performed by his peers in a course. Passionate about the music of Iran (his homeland) and the musical instruments from that region, Nami enjoys writing works that integrate Iranian traditional music with film scoring. He is currently an arranger and composer for the Pars Music Institute in Iran. Growing up in a musical environment, Nami has learned to play different instruments such as the piano, accordion, ney, and tombak (Iranian instruments), euphonium, trumpet, and saxophone.

His goal as an aspiring film composer is to bring Persian music into film scoring in Hollywood and become the most renowned Iranian-born film scorer.

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