Anahita Abbasi

Anahita Abbasi (1985) was born and raised in Iran. In 2005 she moved to Austria and pursued her undergrad at the University of music and performing Arts Graz, where she studied music theory with Clemens Gadenstätter and Christian Utz & composition with Beat Furrer and Pierluigi Billone; while working closely with Georges Aperghis, Franck Bedrossian, and Philippe Leroux. Abbasi is currently residing in San Diego and finishing her Ph.D. in composition under the supervision of Rand Steiger at the University of California San Diego.