Shoushang Ostovar

Houshang Ostovar (also transcribed as "Hoochang Ostovar") is a Persian polyphonic music composrer.

Houshang Ostovar was born in Tehran. He studied basic composition with Parviz Mahmoud and finished his music studies at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.

For many years Ostovar was a professor at the Tehran Conservatory of Music in his works, inspired from Persian folk and classical music, were mostly performed by the Tehran Symphony Orchestra.

A few years after the 1979 Revolution Ostovar moved to France. In 2001 he returned to Tehran and continued his activities as a professor of composition.

The only released work of Ostovar is "Suite Iranienne" (Persian Suite) which was performed in 1980 by Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ali Rahbari in the LP "Symphonische Dichtungen aus Persien" (Symphonic Poems from Persia).