Kamran Hooshmand

Iranian-American musician, composer and ethnomusicologist who lived in Austin, Texas. He played multiple instruments, including the oud and santur. Hooshmand was born in Tehran, Iran in 1961 and lived and performed in the US since 1978. He founded the 1001 Nights Orchestra in the 1990s and world music group Ojalá in 2000. Hooshmand died in 2016.