Alireza Farhang was introduced to music at a very young age as he grew up within a family of musicians. He took piano classes with E. Melikaslanian and R. Minaskanian and studied composition with A. Machayekhi at the University of Tehran. He later pursued further studies in composition and orchestration with M. Merlet at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and perfected his composition skills with Ivan Fedele at the CNR de Strasbourg. He was involved with the Musical Composition and Technologies program as part of an European Course (ECMCT) jointly developed by IRCAM, and the TU, UDK and HFM Hanns Eisler in Berlin. His active participation led him to closely work with B. Pauset, T. Hosokawa, K. Saariaho , M. Jarrell, Y. Maresz, F. Paris, G. Pesson and T. Murail. He holds a doctorate in Modeling, Notation, New Technologies and Composing with Gesture in Transdisciplinary Works. Farhang is founder and director of the International Interdisciplinary Institute for Music Creation (IIIMC), and co-founder of the The Association of Iranian Contemporary Music Composers (ACIMC).